The University of Lagos Alumni Association has announced plans to construct a 1,800-bed hostel on the university’s campus to alleviate the growing accommodation challenges faced by students.
President of the Association, Ifeoluwa Oyedele, disclosed this during the association’s 55th Anniversary Commemoration, Awards, and Dinner, held on Friday in Lagos. The event was organised to honour distinguished Nigerians and exceptional alumni of the institution with various lifetime achievement and service awards.
Oyedele said: “We must continue to intervene by helping to improve the learning environment in the university and make the experience of both staff and students available.”
“We are lucky that the university management maintains a cooperative stance with the alumni body to produce a seamless symbiotic relationship.”
He added that the Association had received approval from the university to use a suitable parcel of land within the campus for the project.
According to him, the project has reached an advanced planning stage, and construction is expected to commence before the end of the year.
“As a mark of this, I am pleased to disclose that the University of Lagos Alumni Association has secured from the university a suitable land within the campus to erect a 1,800-bed student hostel to ease student accommodation problems. The planning of the project has reached an advanced stage, and we are optimistic that construction works will commence before the end of the year,” he said.
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