Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assured the students of the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUST), Ikorodu, that he would work towards reducing the institution’s school fees.

The governor stated that he would make the institution “bigger and best choice in Nigeria”.

Sanwo-Olu said this while speaking at the LASUST campus in Ikorodu on Friday,

He said: “Great students of Lagos State University of Science and Technology. You are now university students; it is going to work well. We’d continue to do what we’re doing to ensure that you finish well. JAMB has put your name (Lagos State University of Science and Technology) as a full university.

“We know you have a small concern about your school fees, we are going to look at it and we are going to bring it down. We are going to be building this university that would be bigger than even LASU very soon,” Sanwo-Olu was quoted as saying in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile.

The governor further expressed optimism that the two newly approved state-owned universities would be reference points in academic circle in no distant time.

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Sanwo-Olu added that the operation of the two additional universities would assist in meeting the demands and needs of the teeming youths who were craving for higher education to be future leaders and reference points for the nation.

Governor Sanwo-Olu said converting erstwhile Lagos State Polytechnic to a University of Science and Technology will bring about innovative engineering, science invention and other innovations that are critical to the development of the state and the country at large.

It would be recalled that the National Universities Commission (NUC) Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed on February 8, 2022, handed over certificates for two new Lagos universities, Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) and Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUST), to Governor Sanwo-Olu at the NUC headquarters in Abuja.

With the issuance of clearance certificates of operation by the NUC, LASUED, the second University of Education in Nigeria, became the 56th state university and 204th university in Nigeria, while LASUST became the 57th state university and 205th in Nigeria.

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