Shocking Photos : Government Houses in Nigeria Are More Expensive Than Universities


State House, Bayelsa | credits: Nairaland,com
 The amount of money spent building government houses in Nigeria is far more than the amount spent building universities.

The cost of building many government houses in Nigeria is far higher than what it takes to build many universities in the country with some state houses gulping as high as nine times more than the cost of building a university, Saturday PUNCH investigation has shown.

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[/media-credit] Delta State University

[/media-credit] A lecture room in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Akwa Ibom Govt House, Uyo

New Kaduna Govt house

New Ekiti Govt house
It was also discovered that in many states where billions of naira were expended on building bogus and expansive state houses for the first families, universities owned by such state governments were in terrible conditions.

In addition to this, many programmes run by these state universities are yet to be accredited by the National Universities Commission, the regulatory agency for universities in Nigeria, due to lack of fund.

To accredit a programme for study in any university in Nigeria, there are minimum acceptable standards required by the NUC. They include availability of adequate facilities to run the programme as well as minimum number of staff both academic and non-academic.

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