The Vice Chancellor of Imo State University, Prof. Uchefula Chukwumaeze, has commended Governor Hope Uzodinma for clearing the institution’s wage bill of N350 million monthly, added to the running cost of N450 million monthly for 12 months.
Professor Chukwumaeze made this commendation during a chat with newsmen in his office in Owerri on Saturday, saying that the Governor has been doing well for the Institution with a staff strength of 180.
He revealed that the Governor cleared the University wage bill of N350 million monthly, added to the running cost, which amounts to N450 million monthly for 12 months, adding that the Governor equally approves monies for promotion exercises and other programmes in the institution.
He disclosed that the tuition fees of N29,500 at Imo State University remain the cheapest in the entire country.
The Professor of Law declared that the Governor subsidised the tuition fees for the indigenes of the state to that amount, while non-Indigenes pay between N150,000 and N180,000, respectively.
The VC said, “The Governor has been picking the wage bill of the Institution with a staff strength of 180 whose school fees stand at N29,500, the cheapest across the Federation.”
Chukwumaeze stressed that it will take a student of Abia State University a huge amount of N450 to read either law or medicine, while at Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State, to read medicine, one has to spend N450,000, while to study law, it will take a sum of N250,000.
Speaking on the relocation of some faculties, the VC explained that the Governor spent up to N4b to move the Faculty of Engineering to Okigwe, while plans are on the way to equally relocate the Faculty of Agriculture to Okpala and Mbaise, as the case may be.
He disclosed that the National University Commission has accredited all courses in the faculties except Education and Mathematics.
