By Onyekachukwu Agu and Amaka Okoli

As part of administrative plans to continue to upscale the infrastructural facilities in the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, CFR, is set to build a new faculty building in the university.

Vice-Chancellor of ESUT, Professor Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, who dropped the cheering news during an exclusive interview with ESU Monitor in his office, said the faculty, when completed, will add to the facilities aimed at expanding the university due to increasing subscription for ESUT programmes. He added that approval for the building has been granted, stressing that the new faculty building will commence as soon as all logistics are sorted out.

“My last visit to Abuja indicated that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Right Honorable Dr. Tajudeen Abbas, has awarded a contract for the construction of another faculty building for the university. The situation report was that the man in charge of monitoring all his projects was out of the country. So, the contractor he appointed, which is from Kaduna, is waiting for the mobilization fund he had applied for. The facility will add much value to our growing quest to continue to expand the university to meet up with increasing subscriptions,” he said.

Prof. Okolie further explained that although the new faculty is yet to be identified, the management will take decision on who to take over the building when completed.

“I believe that any moment from now that they will be coming to start the project and when they start it and we see the scope, management will now decide who will actually have that faculty,” he said.

It could be recalled that over 14 thousand candidates applied for admissions into ESUT’s more than 78 programmes spread across 14 faculties, with eight thousand, six hundred and ninety-six (8,696) offered admissions in the current 2025/2026 academic session.