Kogi Govt To Raise ₦‎15bn Start-Up Fund For Kogi State University 

He said the Attorney General had also been directed to transmit the bill to the State House of Assembly for consideration and passage.

News Agency of Nigeria

The Kogi Government on Monday announced plans to raise ₦‎15 billion for establishing a third State University to be sited in Kabba.

Mr. Wemi Jones, State Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, disclosed this while briefing newsmen shortly after the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting in Lokoja.

Jones said the SEC had already approved the Memo containing the bill to establish “KOGI STATE University, Kabba.”

He said the Attorney General had also been directed to transmit the bill to the State House of Assembly for consideration and passage.

“We are very much aware that a Faculty of Law is one of the pre-requisites for the National University Commission (NUC) to recognise and approve any request for a private university in Nigeria.

“Therefore, Kogi state government is working towards ensuring that before the end of the coming weeks, NUC would have given approval to the State University.

“In fact, the recently inaugurated implementation committee chaired by Prof. Olu Obafemi is working alongside other stakeholders to speed up the process,” he said.

The commissioner clarified the rumor over alleged plans to convert the College of Education (Technical), Kabba, into a site for the University.

He said that the news was false and “unauthenticated information.”

He, however, explained that after several considerations, the committee concluded that it was expedient to start the Kogi State University, Kabba, at the College of Education (Technical) Kabba. At the same time, the College of Education would be relocated to another venue.