President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday January 24 unveil the Post-Graduate Centre of Excellence built by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and donated to the Enugu campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).
The CBN’s Director of Corporate Communication, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, said the project, a part of the bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to the educational sector, is sited in the Enugu campus of the university.
The bank had earlier executed similar projects at the University of Ibadan and the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Okorafor said the world-class post-graduate school project comprises a faculty building and a hostel, consisting of a 497-seater auditorium, four lecture and four tutorial rooms, traditional and e-libraries, a teleconference room and 133-room hostel.
The bank, in conceiving the project, Okorafor said, is to ensure that students at post-graduate levels in Economics, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration and Statistics study in a serene environments that would stimulate effective learning with a view to building human capacity for the financial services sub-sector.