Ebonyi State Government has said that a total of 500 million US Dollars would be spent on the growth of the State University, EBSU, Abakaliki.
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The state governor, Chief Martin Elechi gave the figure during the flag-off ceremony of the distribution of 2013 instructional materials, assessment report booklets and commissioning of State Universal Basic Education Board warehouse at the SUBEB headquarters in the state capital.
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Repped by the Commissioner for Education, Mr Ndubuisi Chibueze-Agbo, the governor said that since the decision of government to run a single campus system as against the earlier proposed four-campus structure for the state university, the government had started massive infrastructural development of the permanent site at Isheike, in collaboration with an American firm.
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The governor announced that the administrative block and the office of the vice-chancellor would be commissioned by the first quarter of this year while work on two hostel blocks and another faculty block have been work in progress.