By Aliyu Dangida

DUTSE—The Provost of the Jigawa State College of Islamic and legal Studies, Ringim, Dr.  Mustapha Yusha’u, has listed insufficient lecture halls and academic staff as some of the major obstacles bedeviling smooth academic programme at the college.

Speaking with newsmen in his office, the Provost said that it has reach the level where over 1,500 students take their lectures in one hall, adding that some of the lecturers shift their lessons to weekends (Sunday-Saturday) due to over population of the students.

Mustapha Yusha’u explained that the College has a  number of 101 academic staff as lecturers, who teach about 7,000 students in addition to 60 non-academic and 61 casual, appealing to the state government to rescue the college from these impediments to enable the college compete with its counterpart across the nation.

He pointed out that the college at the moment requires standard Library which will consist  E- Library, Centre for Educational Technology  and Entrepreneurship, where students are taught technical crafts, saying that if such facilities were not provided the National Commission for Colleges of Education, NCEC will not accredit the NCE courses.