We’ll open KWASU campuses at Osi, Ilesha-Baruba -Gov Ahmed

...promises 1,274 new classrooms As part of educational programmes of his second term, Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has announced that his administration would open campuses of the state-owned varsity (KWASU) already situated at Ilesha-Baruba in Baruten Local Government and Osi in Ekiti Local Government Area of the state.

Ahmed said his administration will "open new campuses for the Kwara State University, (KWASU) in Ilesha-Baruba with the establishment of the College of Agricultural Science and another one in Osi where we will locate the new College of Architectural and Environmental Studies." Equally, the governor promised 1,274 new classrooms and rehabilitation of 2,000 existing ones. In his address at the inauguration of his second term in office at a ceremony held at the Metropolitan square, Ilorin, he said: "Furthermore, the International Vocational Centre, Ajase-Ipo will be fully equipped and operational this year in line with our determination to provide our youths with critical vocational skills for entrepreneurship." The governor added that his administration will "up scale the existing urban electrification programme with solar streetlights along major access roads in Offa, Omu-Aran, Lafiagi, Patigi, Kaiama, and Share-Tsaragi. "We will restore existing public-powered streetlights across the Ilorin Metropolis. Still in the power sector, we will complement existing investment strategies with the establishment of 100-megawatts Independent Power Plant in Kwara North." However, he observed that the mood of the nation had shifted from despair to hope following the inauguration of the new government of President Muhammadu Buhari. He said his administration will from May 29 begin building of a new Kwara that the people desire and deserved. "For me, this day has added significance. On this Democracy Day, we welcome a new dawn. Today, we are witnesses to a shift in the national mood from despair to hope. From seeming helplessness to cautious optimism. On this day, we begin the job of building a new Kwara State, one that our people desire, and one that we all deserve", Ahmed said.