the bid to ease transportation challenge of students and staff, the University of Ilorin, is tinkering with intra-train and electric bus services.
The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Abdulwahab Egbewole disclosed this at an interactive Ramadan Iftar with journalists held at the main campus in Ilorin on Monday.
He said aside the effort the institution is making on the railway transportation, “we are also looking at electric bus transportation.
“The good thing about it is that this is open road few of our colleagues in the Department of electrical engineering are already working on that model and because we just released the Senate research grant, we are hoping that part of the grant will be used to work on that model.”
The Vice-Chancellor, hoped that in the Interim more buses would be injected as discussions had been held with some of the people that intend to introduce more buses on the road.
He noted that “transportation problem has reduced because we have created at least within our campus from gate to point is smooth ride, we are also looking at the government of Kwara State in concluding the ongoing Tanke bridge project which will further reduce the transportation challenge.”
On sports, Professor Egbewole assured that as a sports loving University “we will continue to support sports in all its ramification,” adding that “our contingent will be part of the world University community games that is going to happen somewhere in Europe May or June as I discussed with the director of sports on logistics for that trip.
“We will continue to support sporting activities because we believe that the health of our students is important that sports has a way of impacting positively on,” he asserted.
The Vice-Chancellor promised to end his tenure by making the institution the number one University in Nigeria, Africa and to be one of the prominent key players in the world with our vision one ten five hundred.