Mapoly to Start Awarding BSC degree.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has said the
Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, will soon become a
degree-awarding institution.
He said this at the 14th convocation ceremony of the
institution on Thursday.
According to the governor, the state has opened discussions
with the National Universities Commission, with a view to
actualising this.
He said, “Ogun State has the highest number of higher
institutions in the country. This administration believes in
creating the enabling environment for them to thrive. We
are already looking into the possibility of making MAPOLY a
degree-awarding institution.
“We have already written to the National Universities
Commission and we believe very soon we will receive its
response.”
Commending the leadership of the school, Amosun said he
would construct two hostels in the institution, in the memory
of his parents.
The governor, who said his administration accorded
education priority, noted that it was a potent tool of
achieving socio-economic development.
The MAPOLY Governing Council Chairman, Chief Alaba
Lawson, said the council had entered into a Build-Operate
and Transfer partnership with private developers to
construct three clusters of 2,500 bed spaces each for
students’ accommodation.
She said. “This is to alleviate the pains and sufferings of the
students who have to travel long distances between their
rented apartments in town and the campus.
“These hostels are equally envisaged to enhance the status
of the institution and make it viable for elevation into a
degree awarding university of technology in no distance
future.”