Kwara House passes Bill changing state varsity to Abubakar Sola Saraki University

ILORIN—Kwara State House of Assembly
has passed a bill seeking to change the
name of Kwara State University, KWASU
to Abubakar Sola Saraki University,
ASSU.
The speaker said: With the
commencement of this law, KWASU shall
be Abubakar Sola Saraki University,
ASSU, wherever it occurs in the University
law and the law may be cited as Kwara
State University Amendment Law.”
The bill, read for the third time before its
passage yesterday had been subjected to
public hearing after it scaled first and
second reading.
The report of the House Committee on
Education and Human Capital
Development claimed that only five (5) of
the stakeholders were against the
proposed Bill… on the ground that State
and Local Government resources would
be used to fund the university hence,
KWASU should not be renamed after Sola
Saraki. The committee said 35 of the
stakeholders were of the view that KWASU
be renamed after the late Political Icon
due to his socio-economic and political
contributions to the development of Kwara
State in particular and Nigeria in general.
The report added that 40 stakeholders
made both oral and written submissions.
The house, however, endorsed the
recommendations of the committee and
approved the renaming of the university
after Saraki.