ASR Africa Lifts Nigerian Educational System With N5.5bn Infrastructure Grant

BUA Chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu has enhanced Nigerian educational system with a N5.5 billion grant for infrastructural development to no fewer than 22 Universities and other tertiary institutions.

The grant is coming under the ASR Tertiary Education Grants Scheme.

The ASR Africa on Thursday explained that the new recipients will bring to 30 the number of Nigerian higher institutions that have benefited from the scheme.

“Before the new set, eight Universities in Nigeria had benefited from the Scheme, receiving billions of Naira in grants with some of their targeted projects nearing completion”, it noted.

Commenting on the grants, Abdul Samad Rabiu, Chairman ASR Africa and BUA Group said, “At ASR AFRICA, we believe in Africa’s capacity to leapfrog the development divide through the SDGs. Good quality investments in education is one of the ways through which we can achieve that. This is why education remains one of the three focal areas of ASR Africa’s intervention in Nigeria, and Africa, and our investments in infrastructure for tertiary institutions are showing good promise.”

Speaking on the selected institutions, the Managing Director of ASR Africa, Ubon Udoh, noted that the 22 picked for N5.5billion grant were chosen across Nigeria based on certain criteria.

He, however, promised that the next phase under our grants framework would be project selection and development of mutual accountability framework with respective Universities and this phase is expected to commence in coming weeks.

The beneficiary institutions, which were picked from both private and public-owned institutions include Bayero University, Kano, Adamawa State University, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Nigerian Law School, Lagos, University of Uyo, University of Lagos, University of Jos, Federal College of Education, Technology, Gusau and Federal University, LOKOJA,

Others are; Nasarawa State University, University of Port Harcourt, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Uthman Dan Fodio University, Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Crescent University, Babcock University, Al Qalam University, Baze University, Nigerian Defence Academy, Federal University, Gashua, and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.