Kaduna - Governor Nasiru El-
Rufa’i of Kaduna State said the
state has suspended its plans to
establish a new university in
Kafachan.
The governor announced the
suspension on Tuesday, in
Kaduna, when he received
officials of the Tertiary Education
Trust Fund who paid him a
courtesy visit.
The News Agency of Nigeria
reports that the plan to establish
a second state university was
initiated by the immediate past
administration of Mukhtar Yero.
El-Rufai said the project was
suspended because of
inadequate funds.
“The state government has no
money to establish a new
university; the previous
administration which initiated
the plan, did not make any
provision for it in the 2015
budget,” he said.

The governor said he would
rather deploy the lean resources
available to his government into
the upgrading of existing
facilities at the Kaduna State
University, in line with global
standard.
He noted that infrastructure and
learning facilities at the university
were inadequate, forcing the
institution to send some of its
students elsewhere to complete
their studies.
El-Rufa’i said the focus of his
administration was to expand
the institution’s academic
programmes and make the
university rate among the best in
the country.
Earlier, Prof Suleiman Bogoro,
Executive Secretary of TETFUND,
said the Fund had provided more
than N6 billion to the state
university in the last one year for
various projects and services.
He, however, assured the
governor that the agency would
continue to fund the
construction of infrastructure
and provision of learning
facilities in tertiary institutions in
the state.
- NAN


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