The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Dutse, Prof. Abdulkarim Sabo Mohammed has said that the university has began the construction of a new senate building, lecture theatres and classrooms among others.
The VC who stated this at a Freedom Radio live program, One on One said though the universities have been on strike in the last seven months, the management of FUD have been silently trying their best to improve facilities in the university.
The ongoing construction work are 250 capacity lecture theatre at the Faculty of Computing, Twin Lecture theatre behind GST, Twin Lecture theatre behind Postgraduate building.
Others are two Lecture halls for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Nine classrooms building for the Faculty of Education, 100 bed space female hostel, procurement building and the new senate building which is an extension of the existing building.
It would be recalled that the 100 bedspace female hostel flagged off last year by the VC has been completed.
The VC informed his audience that the Rasheed Shekoni Teaching hospital has taken delivery of state of the art equipment to enhance its capacity to meet its new status as a Teaching hospital. Among the newly acquired machines at the Teaching hospital include, CT Scam machine, dialysis machine, digital and analog x-ray machines, fluoroscopy machine and an MRI machine.
Prof. Abdulkarim decried the strike action which has crippled activities in the nations tertiary institutions adding that government alone cannot fund the universities. He called on government to dialogue with stakeholders in the system to explore alternative funding.
He said from the information available, the strike may soon be over adding that the universities will face the challenges of admission backlog from 2021 & 2022.He said the financial losses from the strike will also affect the universities negatively.
He appealed to academic staff and students to brace up for the challenges ahead when the universities eventually reopen.
