By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—The Vice Chancellor, of the Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri, Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie, has said the university had received N100 million from Federal Government, through TETFUND Special Intervention Fund in the last two years.

Awuzie also said IMSU was a beneficiary of the N1.2 billion for the building of students hostel and its furnishing; N500 million for equipment and furniture in laboratories; N100 million for procurement of teaching materials and equipment, and N1 billion for the construction of a lecture theatre, all from Tetfund Special Intervention.

He also explained that the institution’s management had already utilised the special intervention fund to furnish the law classrooms, procured executive tables, white boards, buses and Hilux vans.

Continuing, the VC said that other basic infrastructures where the Federal Government agencies equally intervened include a 700-seat capacity terraced lecture theatre, boreholes, a three-floor seminar complex for the College of Medicine at the Orlu Campus, Faculty of Law Complex, N350 million model science laboratory complex, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the university library complex, redevelopment of the SIWES building, and rehabilitation and refurbishing of the large lecture hall.

In the area of enforcement of discipline, the VC said over 700 students have been rusticated in the last 12 months for various examination misconducts.