The Kaduna State University, KASU, has expressed confidence that the university’s permanent site, which includes engineering and law faculties, will be fully operational within the next six months.

Professor Abdullahi Ibrahim Musa, Vice Chancellor of the University, announced this during an inspection tour with the administrative staff of the university at its Permanent Site in Rigachikun, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

He expressed appreciation to the Kaduna State government, Tertiary Education Trust fund, TEtfund and other donors for their efforts toward making the multi-million naira project a huge success.

With the pace of work at the permanent site, the Vice Chancellor stated that the University will soon invite the National Universities Commission, NUC, and the Nigerian Council for the Regulation of Engineering, including the Council for Legal Education, for resource verification and assessment to begin law and engineering courses at the University.

Prof. Abdullahi stated that by 2024, the Kaduna State University, KASU, would shift to its permanent location for the full commencement of academic programs, with the goal of increasing socioeconomic and educational development of Kaduna and Nigeria as a whole.

“We are here today to expressed our appreciation to the Kaduna State Government, particularly , Senator Uba Sani, the Governor of Kaduna State who secure funding for the Engineering faculty from CBN.

and other funders including Tertiary Education Trust fund TEtfund and other Bodies that are supporting Kaduna State University, in the areas of facilities, and other civil structures at our permanent site.

“As you can see, we came in with Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic and Administration, including the consultants for law Faculty and Engineering, and from what we have seen, we are in the right position to make a pronouncement that in the next six months, we hope to invite the relevant professional bodies, particularly the NUC for resource verification to begin our law program,

“From what we have seen in the engineering site, we also intend to invite the NUC and the Nigerian Council for the regulation of engineering to assess our resources and facilities so as we can begin the engineering programs”, explained the VC.

While showing journalists and the management team around the Rigachikun facility, Prof. Hyencinth Aboh, Provost, College of Science and Engineering and Consultant for the Engineering Program, expressed gratitude to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for sponsoring the project and expressed satisfaction with the constant advancement of work at the permanent site.

Prof. Aboh was confident that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, will continue to fund the equipment and facilities required for the engineering program at the University to get off to a good start.

He said” as you can see work is progressing steadily, and I’m sure funds will not be a problem, I also feel that when the structures are completed, CBN would graciously fund the type of equipments in order to take off this program, as the building itself will not make engineers, it has to come with a component”

On his part, legal Consultant for the establishment of Law Program, Professor. Nasirudeen Usman posited that law is a Professional Program that is guided by the National Universities Commission, NUC, and the Council for Legal Education, the statutory body that regulates legal education in Nigeria.

He was confident that the University will be ready for resource verification by NUC in March next year, noting that the first set of students would be taken by the next year’s admission exercise for the commencement of the program at the University.

“The building of Kaduna State University Faculty of law is probably one of the best you can find in the country, so I’m quite happy with this, but what remains is to make sure that we see it through, not only the physical infrastructure, but the equipment as well, then we do the soft development of the program in terms of the curriculum content so that we have a law that truly suit the yearnings of the communities,” he added.

The Permanent Site which is designed inline with the modern day architecture is made up of spacious administrative offices, lecture theatres, library, senate building, law clinic, engineering workshops, and hostels among others.