The Rivers State
University of Science and Technology (RSUST) is shopping for 10 billion naira from the corporate world to upgrade its infrastructural facilities.
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Barineme Fakae who said this at the First RSUST Corporate Society Day in Port Harcourt also said that the institution had redirected its energies towards the realisation of the dream of the founding fathers of the institution.
The Vice Chancellor also said that as a rebranded and foremost varsity in Nigeria, the institution had  leveraged Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to produce administrative and academic orderliness in a once chaotic and deplorable institution.
“While a lot of advances have been made in handling of academic processes, the e-learning aspect of the Blue is still at its infant stage because of lack of the capacity that could allow it to blossom.
“The success of e-learning is dependent on a viable Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). This no doubt draws on a lot of resources, hence will have the need to engage the corporate society and well meaning alumni,” he said.
Professor Fakae listed some achievements of the present administration in the institution to include, the recovery of lost programmes, restoration of infrastructural facilities as well as tackling environmental problems.
The rest are; streamlining students record, streamlined financial processes and records for the sake of accountability, insistence on good service delivery , while the backlogs of graduation through a combined convocation ceremony in 2011 which took care of over 26,000 graduands had been addressed, amongst others.
Also speaking, the chairman of the occasion, Professor G.O.M. Tasie commended the Vice Chancellor for the unprecedented level of achievements in the university.
Professor Tasie who was a former chairman of the University’s Governing Council also warned politicians to keep off the university and condemned attempt to tribalise the appointment of a Vice Chancellor in the institution.
In his speech, the chairman of the university’s Governing Council. Hon. Justice Adolphus Karibi Whyte (rtd) urged the management to ensure that integrity and accountability remained their watchword.
He commended the management for its effort to make the university self sufficient, stressing that the event would go a long way in making the institution to achieve the dreams of its founding fathers.

Chris Oluoh