SMH! State Govt. Houses That Are Expensive Than Nigerian Universities

New Ekiti Govt house

A new report according to Nigeria Property  investigation has just revealed that most government houses built by some states government are more costlier than the cost of building university in the country by nine times

According to the report, most of these government house are nine times expensive than the cost of building a university. Meaning, the cost at which these university were build could as well built nine university.

Akwa Ibom Govt House, Uyo

It is disheartening to see how taxpayers money are expended on such a luxurious life when Nigerians are walloping in abject poverty and untold hardship, where universities are grossly inadequate to cater for ever rising demand for university education in Nigeria.

According to Reports; “It was also discovered that in many states where billions of naira were expended on building bogus and expansive state houses for the first families, universities owned by such state governments were in terrible conditions.”

State House, Bayelsa

“In addition to this, many programmes run by these state universities are yet to be accredited by the National Universities Commission, the regulatory agency for universities in Nigeria, due to lack of fund.”

“To accredit a programme for study in any university in Nigeria, there are minimum acceptable standards required by the NUC. They include availability of adequate facilities to run the programme as well as minimum number of staff both academic and non-academic.”

New Kaduna Govt house

“A former Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof Peter Okebukola, said, ‘’The requirements are essentially facilities and staff. Both need money to put in place. However, in the case of staff, a long-term investment is needed to procure quality staff.’’

“Depending on the number of programmes to be accredited, accreditation of courses, according to him, could gulp between N1.8bn and N2.7bn with science-based courses gulping more money than non-science based courses.”

Investigations further showed that some states that could hardly afford to spend as low as N800m on accreditation in their universities, spent billions of naira to build state houses for their families.