World Bank hails leadership

The World Bank has urged the managers of public universities to emulate the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) in the judicious use of funds.

The bank’s Senior Education Specialist and Co-Task Leader of STEP-B Projects, Dr. Tunde Adekola, said this while inaugurating the N95 million campus-wide Fibre Optics Network sponsored by the bank under the Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (STEP-B) project.

He expressed happiness that the university demonstrated transparency and diligence in all its activities, saying, “Such a university deserves to be assisted and supported in order to encourage her to do more.”

He added: “Any institution that wants to benefit from World Bank-sponsored projects must be accountable. In Nigeria, we have a problem because those who are accountable are not responsible and those who are responsible are not accountable.”

The World Bank representative said further that the UNILORIN was one of the few universities in Africa that has been able to achieve the objectives for which the STEP-B project was initiated.

 

 

In his remarks, the UNILORIN Vice Chancellor, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, thanked the bank for the STEP-B project.

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