The Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO) in Benue State, has benefited from a N3 billion grant from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for infrastructural development.
The vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Innocent Ujah, made the disclosure during a press conference at the weekend to mark the two-year anniversary of the institution held at its temporary site in Otada, Otukpo.
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“It is worthy of note that our university is one of the universities benefitting from the TETFund high impact intervention fund worth N3 billion.
“With the support of TETFund, we have started the development of our permanent site of the university at Akweter, Akpa with the commencement of the construction of the Senate building, College of Medicine building, and the principal officers’ quarters,” he said.
Ujah said the contractors had been mobilised to site with the completion period ranging between 18 and 24 months, adding that the buildings were being modelled to be the first of their kind in the country.
He said the school would move to the permanent site next year and that with the release of the intervention fund, further work would soon commence at the site.
The vice chancellor thanked President Muhammadu Buhari, assuring that the money would be judiciously used and that the university would account for whatever was given to it for development.
