15- STOREY UNILAG FEMALE HOSTEL SET TO BE NAMED AFTER DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN. READ MORE!

UNIVERSITY of Lagos is set to name a 15-
storey girls hostel after Dame Patience
Good luck Jonathan this Friday.

At a briefing yesterday, the Deputy Vice
Chancellor, Professor Duro Oni, said the 15-
storey building expected to cost about N3
billion would be named after the First Lady
because of her contributions towards women
folks.
He said: “It is a female hostel and the person
due to be named after it is the President’s
wife who has touched the lives of many
women.”

According to him, like other tertiary
institutions, UNILAG had been having problem
of accommodation hindering students
especially the female students getting to
school on time, saying “about 28,000
undergraduates struggle for 8,500 spaces
every year in UNILAG.”
Similarly, Chairman of the Fund Raising
Committee, Prof. Nwose Chukuma, said: “The
parents’ forum is not only building a hostel to
help solve accommodation problem in the
university, the 15-storey hostel project is
named after the First Lady to honour her for
her numerous contributions to the
development and emancipation of women in
Nigeria and Africa.”