Kazaure Poly suffers shortage of female hostels

Female students of Federal Polytechnic Kazaure are scrambling for accommodation following the severe shortage of hostel rooms. Male students were asked to vacate their rooms for female students to ease the lack of accommodation crisis in the institution. The Rector, Dr. Kabir Ibrahim Matazu, made the complaint during a visit to the Jigawa State Education […]

Female students of Federal Polytechnic Kazaure are scrambling for accommodation following the severe shortage of hostel rooms.
Male students were asked to vacate their rooms for female students to ease the lack of accommodation crisis in the institution.
The Rector, Dr. Kabir Ibrahim Matazu, made the complaint during a visit to the Jigawa State Education Commissioner, Rabi Ishaq in Dutse. He said female students in the institution were facing acute shortage of hostels, adding that the recent federal government ban on the use of TETFund money for the construction of hostels in tertiary institutions further compounded their problem.
The rector called on the state government to look into the possibility of coming to the aid of the institution by constructing additional hostels for them.
 “The problem of hostels shortage in the school is as a result of an order that stoped the use of TETfund money for the construction of hostels in tertiary institutions,” he said.
He explained that following the introduction of new courses, the student population of the institution expanded but without commensurate expansion in students’ hostels.
It was based on this circumstance that the school authorities had to ask the male students to make personal arrangement for their accommodation so as to create more spaces with a view to accommodating the female students.
“I am therefore appealing to the Jigawa State government to wade into the matter by constructing hostels for the students particularly, for female students,” he said.
In her response, the commissioner promised to address the matter and see how the state government could provide solutions, saying the new administration would accord utmost priority to education.