NUC's Resources Verification Exercise Continues in LASUSTECH

Safiu Kehinde

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has continued its two-week Resource Verification Exercise in Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) today.

Following last week’s completion of two batches which, according to LASUSTECH Newsflash, saw the verification of seven programmes-B.Tech Computer Engineering, B.Eng. Civil & Construction Engineering, B.Eng. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, B. Tech Biotechnology & Food Technology, B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, B. Eng. Mechatronics Engineering, and B. Eng. Agricultural Engineering, the regulatory body is set to extend the exercise across other programmes.

In similar version, this week’s exercise is divided into two batches with B.Sc. Agricultural Economics & Farm Management, B.Sc. Agricultural Extension & Rural Development , B.Sc. Crop Production, B.Sc. Horticulture & Landscape Management, B.Sc. Animal Production, and B.Sc. Aqua Culture & Fisheries Management falling into the third batch while B. Sc. Chemical Sciences, B.Sc. Mathematics Sciences, B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc Physics with Electronics, B.Sc. Biological Sciences, B.Sc. Mass Communication, B.Sc. Accounting, B.Sc. Banking & Finance, B.Sc. Actuarial Science, and B.Sc. Economics all fall into the last batch.

Both batches are scheduled for 25^th-27^th and 28^th-30^th September respectively after which the school awaits result from the NUC.

Speaking on the essence of the exercise, LASUSTECH’s Public Relations Officer, Dr. Olanrewaju Kuye, stated that the exercise is mandatory for every new Universities without which admission of new students will be impossible.

“No new university can admit students or be called a university if the National Universities Commission do not do resources verification. This implies that they want to see what you have on ground to determine if you can admit students; to determine if you can be a university indeed.” He said

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