The Federal Government on Wednesday said it has completed 19 out of the 43 internal road projects in different tertiary institutions across the country.
This was made known by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, while handing over a 1.33km of roads rehabilitated and constructed under the programme.
Represented by the Federal Controller of Roads in Ekiti State, Mr. Ishiaq Lawal, Fashola said 19 out of the 43 ongoing road projects had been completed.
He revealed that the intervention on roads in tertiary institutions was part of effort to bridge the infrastructure gap in the country as President Muhamnadu Buhari-led administration had stepped up work in all sectors of the economy.
“It is undebatable that quality education will be impacted by the quality of infrastructure and the learning environment and those who doubt it should simply listen to some of the feedback from students in the schools where this type of interventions has taken.
“There is no doubt that the gap of our infrastructure needs is steadily been bridged by gradual process of repairs renewal and construction on the highway and it has reached the schools.
“Currently there are 43 such interventions in internal roads within tertiary institutions across Nigeria, and the students are expressing their new enthusiasm with regards to attend the classes because of defective routes have been restored to motorability,” he said.
In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, lauded the initiative of the federal government, describing the project as a relief to the university community.
Soremekun said the project would not only improve the learning process of students but also impact the ambience of the university, assuring that the new roads would be maintained to serve the desired purposes.
He said the university needed more of such interventions in the area of infrastructures to further enhance the academic profile of the university in order to adequately compete with its contemporaries on the global realm.