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October 3, 20260
BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Delta State Government has intensified infrastructure development across its four state-owned universities to address rising student enrolment and improve the learning environment.
Commissioner for Works (Rural Roads) and Public Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, disclosed this on Saturday after inspecting the Faculty of Management Sciences and Social Sciences building at Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba.
Aniagwu, who inspected the project alongside the Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Nyerhovwo Tonukari, and the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Aghalino, said the facility was part of the infrastructure expansion programme of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s administrationHe said the growing number of students seeking admission into the state-owned universities had made the provision of additional lecture halls, offices and other facilities imperative.
According to him, the government was not only focused on recruiting and retaining academic and non-academic staff but was also committed to.
Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively.
He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.
He began his journalism career in The Republic Newspaper, Lagos in 1987 as a Special Correspondent in Benin City, Edo State.
In 1990, he was posted from Lagos to old Anambra State as a State Correspondent in Enugu.
In 1994, he joined the African Newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State, Publisher of Nigerian Tribune Newspapers where he rose to the rank of Southeast Bureau Chief.
Retiring from the mainstream traditional media in 2019, he began another journey in online newspaper publication.
He was the Overall Best Reporter in 2015, an award bestowed on him by Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Enugu State.
He has attended several workshops/seminars organised by multi-nationals, government institutions, local and international media including BBC.
He is also a unionist and had held top positions as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists of Enugu Correspondents’ Chapel and State Council of NUJ, respectively. He was also a one-time Enugu State Secretary of Sports Writers’ Association of Nigeria (SWAN).
