Odinaka Mbonu
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y the end of 2015, the Lagos State government
would have succeeded in repositioning the Lagos State University (LASU), making
it an enviable citadel of learning with a wide range of super-structures and
top grade amenities.
Facilities being put in place in the
university include a modern central library, a befitting senate building, a
functional radio station operating from the school’s main campus, and many
other structures that are already at advanced stages of construction.
“These structures are strictly financed by
the state government and are aimed at meeting the physical needs of the
students,” Obafemi Hamzat, the state commissioner for Works and Infrastructure,
disclosed to newsmen during a tour of the construction sites at the campus in
Ojo, Lagos.
Other structures expected in the school
include students’ union arcade, a lecture theatre for Law students and a
prototype of two- and three-bedroom apartments of the state’s Home Ownership
Mortgage Scheme (HOMS) house types.
“We have purposely opted for these
super-structures because we aim to deliver facilities that can withstand the
test of time, lasting as long as 200 to 300 years, with maintenance as our only
source of concern after delivering the structures,” said Hamzat in his
assessment of the facilities.
The modern central library, which can host
about 800 students simultaneously reading, will be delivered on four floors.
Currently, the piling work, substructure, frame structure on ground and first
floor level (first phase) are already completed, while work on its second phase
has commenced with February 2015 set for its delivery.
The senate building, which can be described
as another architectural masterpiece, will be delivered in six floors, with
about 65 percent of work done already. It would be delivered in the third
quarter of 2014.
Amongst facilities expected to be delivered
in the near future is the radio station building which is already at the
completion stage. The station will avail Mass Communication students of a
platform to praticalise what they have been taught and also serve as a
transmission outlet for the school’s radio station.
“We will be completing the radio station by
April,” said Oluleye Kolade, the site engineer, adding that they only had the
installation of equipment left to deliver the project.
Other efforts by the state government to
raise the school above its peers include the renovation of a three-in-one
theatre for the Faculty of Education which currently boasts of modern lecture
rooms and a conference room.
The School of Transport, which was also
recently delivered to the university, consists of a lobby, collapsible lecture
rooms, offices for administrative staff and lecturers.
The construction of the lecture theatre for
Law students, which will come on two floors and boasts of a twin lecture hall
and offices, has reached 75 percent completion rate.
Explaining the rationale behind contracting
almost all the construction work to China Civil Engineering Construction
Company (CCECC), Hamzat said it was because LASU was a learning environment. As
such, “it is important we do not over-crowd the school with so many contractors
thereby distracting students from academic activities”, he added.
Source: BusinessDay
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