…….as institution plans to build electric vehicle
By Dare Akogun
The Vice Chancellor of Unilorin Professor Abdulwahab Egbewole SAN has revealed that the institution has been designated as an innovation hub by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND.
Just as he expressed the plans of the institution to introduce electric bus and intral-train services to ease transportation challenge of students and staff in the University.
Professor Egbewole stated this at an annual interactive Ramadan Iftar with journalists held on Monday at the VC’s Lodge on the main campus in Ilorin.
He said the transportation issue is one major project he hopes to solve during his tenure as VC, hinting that aside the effort the institution is making on the railway transportation, we are also looking at electric bus transportation.
“The good thing about it is that this is open road few of our colleagues in the Department of electrical engineering are already working on that model and because we just released the Senate research grant, we are hoping that part of the grant will be used to work on that model,” he said.
The Vice-Chancellor, noted that more buses would be injected as discussions had been held with some of the people that intend to introduce more buses on the road.
“Transportation problem has reduced because we have created at least within our campus from gate to the campus is smooth ride, we are also looking at the government of Kwara State in concluding the ongoing Tanke bridge project which will further reduce the transportation challenge,” he said.
The Vice-Chancellor expressed optimism in making the institution the number one University in Nigeria, Africa and to be one of the prominent key players in the world before the completion of his tenure.
Professor Egbewole also expressed his willingness to support sports in all its ramification in the institution.
“We will continue to support sporting activities because we believe that the health of our students is important that sports has a way of impacting positively on.
“Our contingent will be part of the world University community games that is going to happen somewhere in Europe May or June as I discussed with the director of sports on logistics for that trip.” he added.
