The University of Ilorin will not shut down its academic activities during the forthcoming general elections., Vice Chancellor, Professor Wahab Egbewole SAN, has said.
The VC, however, said students and staff can vote during the elections as the university had designed a programme “where students can attend virtual classes and vote wherever they are.”
“We won’t suspend our lecturing for voting, Unilorin is digitised,” he added.
He said the university’s academic programmes is such that all lost academic calendars to the eight-month strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities are recovered latest by October while a new academic session begins in August 2023.
Egbewole made this known while fielding questions from journalists during his maiden media parley on Wednesday.
He said in the last 100 days of his assumption as vice-chancellor, the university had attracted N500 million TETFund grants for hostel accommodation for its students, another N400 million for broadband from the ministry of communication and N200 million grant for ICT.
Similarly, the VC said some staff of the school have also attracted N100 million grants through their research works for the university, adding that the university “has patented 18- 20 products of its research works.”
