The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has commissioned the remodelled senate building and the faculty of law complex projects worth N4.089 billion at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, IBBU, Lapai, Niger State.
The projects were executed under TETFund’s 2023 Special High Impact Intervention and 2020/2021 merged interventions.
The projects were constructed at N1,584,998,463.70 (Remodelled University Senate Building) and N2,504,381,517.61(Faculty of Law Complex) respectively.
Speaking at the Commissioning Ceremony on Thursday in Lapai, Niger State, Chairman, TETFund Board of Trustees, Aminu Bello Masari, said that since 2011, TETFund has allocated N15.25 billion for infrastructure-related projects at IBB University, of which N13.04 billion has already been accessed.
Masari commended the university for the prudent utilisation of the funds.
The former governor of Katsina said: “We are convinced that the projects undertaken with these funds will continually impact the university’s mandate in facilitating teaching, learning, research and community service.”
The ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, lauded Niger State Government under Governor Umar Bago for its visible commitment to education, describing the administration’s support as “a key reason why the commissioning was possible.
He said the newly commissioned projects represented TETFund’s continued alignment with the Federal Government’s vision of modernising tertiary institutions, including interventions in sustainable power supply, medical training facilities, and ICT innovation.
Masari also lamented the suspension of foreign training for lecturers due to high foreign exchange rates and incidents of abscondment, assuring that local capacity-building and infrastructural investments will now take precedence.
“We urge the university to ensure proper maintenance of these facilities. For our part, TETFund will sustain impactful interventions to make Nigerian institutions globally competitive,” he stated.
