Abdul Samad Initiatives Builds 110 Capacity Hostel For Minna Varsity At N310mn

The Abdul Samad Africa Initiatives (ASR Africa) has gifted the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, with N310 million Students’ Hostel Building.

The project was funded by the ASR Africa Tertiary Education Grant Scheme. It is part of the Initiative’s ongoing commitment to delivering sustainable and high-impact interventions within Nigeria’s tertiary education sector.

Speaking at the inauguration of the newly completed 110-occupant capacity hostel the vice chancellor of the University, Prof Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta, lauded the efforts Abdul Samad Africa initiatives

“This is an expected milestone achieved today courtesy of ASR Africa. I want to thank Abdul Samad Rabiu, the Chairman and Founder of BUA Group extending his philanthropic reach to our university.

“The building, being commissioned today, has in no little way advanced the achievements of the school in providing a conducive and safe accommodation for the teeming students of the school,” he declared.

The managing director/CEO, ASR Africa, Dr. Ubon Udoh, also thanked the management of the university for their collaborative efforts and commitment at every stage of the project.

He said “Over the next two years, ASR Africa will be coming periodically to the school to ascertain the state of the hostel in conjunction with the school for joint accountability in terms of maintenance. Our interventions are targeted at ensuring students are the final beneficiaries, and this is reflected across recently commissioned projects.”

The Governor of Niger State, Mohammed Umaru Bago, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Sirajo Said, commended ASR Africa and its Chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, for supporting the University.

He described the gesture as exemplary and worthy of emulation by other corporate organizations while appealing to ASR Africa to consider extending the same gesture to the State University.