UNN Executes 400 Projects

The University of Nige
ria Nsukka (UNN) has executed over 400 projects over the four-year period (2010-2013) deploying funds from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), Federal Government capital allocations and Internally Generated Revenue.
UNN Vice Chancellor, Prof Bartho Okolo disclosed the huge project profile at the university while rendering account at the South East Stakeholders’ Forum of the TETFUND/Capital Interventions in Higher Institutions held at the Main Hall of the Enugu Campus of the institution.
According to Okolo, UNN accessed N2.6 billion from the Education Trust Fund and a further N1.7 billion in capital allocations over the period.
The receipts are from total TETFund allocation of N7.8 billion and capital allocation of N3.5billion over the four-year period.
He explained that UNN executed 179 projects with TETfund monies over the period while the Fund paid for 115 conferences and workshops attended by staff of the institution.
UNN raked up Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of N4.9 billion over the period. The Vice Chancellor’s report showed that UNN executed 227 projects using Internally Generated Revenue.  The breakdown shows 133 constructions, 30 procurements, 35 scholarships and sponsorship of 29 conferences.
“Major projects executed during the period, Prof Okolo disclosed, include the department of Economics building, remodelled and expanded from single floor to three floors with N216million from TETfund the Workshop for Vocational Teacher Education, with TETfund’s N110 million leading the project and a new Faculty of Pharmacy Building under construction with N469 million from TETfund.
“Others are the construction of a multi-storey CEC Seminar Building, construction of a Law Faculty Building for N215 million, and the N26 million Studio/Laboratory for Architecture also at the Enugu campus”.
Okolo said TETfund also provided N458m for the procurement and installation of 13, 600 seats for more than 24 lecture theatres, and 113 classrooms at both the Nsukka and Enugu campuses.
Okolo displayed pictures of the various projects including new and refurbished roads and landscaping projects that have enhanced the ambience of the institution and its suitability for academic work and university community.
Key IGR projects include construction of a new School of Post Graduate Studies (N1.02 billion),  rehabilitation and upgrade of 19 hostels involving structural restoration, re-roofing, replacement of windows and doors, refitting of WCs, painting etc) (N478m) and a University printing press equipped with N100m.