By Peter Eze

Baring last minute change in plans, the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT has concluded plans to restore the ESUT Radio on air latest by March next year, ESUT Monitor can report authoritatively.

Operating on 106.5 Frequency Modulation (FM), the ESUT Radio licensed in 2012 went off air following fire incident that affected the office building in Enugu, some years back.

The Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu, in an interview, gave assurance that the Radio will be back on air before the end of March 2024

“The Vice-Chancellor last week, when we went to Port Harcourt, presented this issue to the ESUT alumni, that ESUT does not have ESUT Radio. He wants the alumni to assist because the University is already completing payment for the Afri-Hub. The ESUT Radio can be hoisted within that Afri-Hub complex.  The good news is that the alumni Port Harcourt branch made instant donations towards that project. What we are now waiting is for the budget estimate. The Vice-Chancellor commissioned a committee to go and work out the modality.

“Before February – March, you’ll be hearing ESUT Radio again. The money is already there because we told them that completion of the payment for the Afri-Hub and the ESUT radio will not guzzle more than twenty million naira. After the donation in which ten million naira was realised, they said that if there is any other thing that will prevent it, we should let them know. Not only that they donated, they have already started paying it into the University account.

“I’m sure that by next week, the Vice-Chancellor will call some of you to witness the discussion of the ESUT Radio. We don’t want to go and find out what happened in the past, but we are floating it, because we have been hearing Caritas University Radio, Coal City University Radio, and ESUT came on board before those areas, so it’s a done deal,” he said.

The news is coming less than a month after the Department of Mass Communication relaunched its newspaper, ESUT Monitor along with the website.