The Federal Government has completed and delivered rehabilitated roads and car park projects within the University of Lagos to the school management.
The delivered projects were part of the federal government’s intervention on internal roads for tertiary institutions in the country.
The inauguration and handing over ceremony of the five roads and car park projects newly rehabilitated was done by the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over the weekend, according to Tribune.
Part of the projects include: Alvan Ikoku, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa road, Bunu Jike Crescent, UNILAG Shopping complex and a car park.
The minister, who was represented by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Umar Bakare, said that the government had intervened on 83 roads in tertiary institutions across the nation.
He reaffirmed that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Ret’d.), was committed to quality infrastructure delivery across tertiary institutions in the nation.
Listing previous similar interventions, Fashola said that over 60 roads had been fully rehabilitated in different federal tertiary institutions across the country, with another 18 in-campus roads just completed, while 19 others were nearing completion.
Responding to the request of the management of the university for more, the minister said that tertiary infrastructure upgrade is a continuous process, and not going to be a one-off thing
In his capacity as the Federal Controller of Works, Bakare promised to personally visit the additional sites the management complained about to make a proposal for urgent intervention.
The Vice Chancellor of UNILAG, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, in his response to the gesture, hailed the president for the initiative.
