Kogi State Executive Council (SEC) has approved a memo on the bill for the establishment of Kogi State University, Kabba and Other Matters Connected, 2023.
The exco directed the state attorney-general and commissioner for justice to transmit the bill to the House of Assembly for consideration and passage into law.
In a briefing, the commissioner for education, science and technology stated that a university law is one of the prerequisites for the National Universities Commission (NUC) to recognise and approve any university in Nigeria.
He hinted that the state government was working towards ensuring that before the end of the coming weeks, NUC would have given approval to the state university, adding that the recently inaugurated implementation committee chaired by renowned professor of English Language, Olu Obafemi, was working alongside other stakeholders to speed up the process.
He commissioner pointed out that the committee after several considerations concluded that it was more expedient to start the Kogi State University, Kabba at the current site of College of Education Technical Kabba while the College of Education will be relocated to another venue and that the government was considering Mopamoro local government area for the project.