{"id":75586,"date":"2025-09-24T05:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75586"},"modified":"2025-09-24T05:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:41:27","slug":"tinubu-approves-600-bed-hostels-for-abuja-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/24\/tinubu-approves-600-bed-hostels-for-abuja-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Approves 600-Bed Hostels for Abuja Law School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved the construction of new hostel facilities to accommodate 600 students at the Abuja campus of the Nigerian Law School.<\/p>\n<p>The approval was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement issued by Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Tinubu directed FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to immediately commence work on the projects.<\/p>\n<p>The presidency explained that the initiative is aimed at addressing accommodation challenges faced by students of the institution.<\/p>\n<p>The plan includes the construction of two separate hostel blocks, each with a capacity of 300 students; one for male residents and the other for female residents.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2024, Wike had inaugurated the design, construction, and furnishing of an annex office for the Body of Benchers, stressing that providing infrastructure for the judiciary should not be mistaken for executive interference.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same period, he also launched the design and construction of 10 four-bedroom bungalows for staff of the Law School, donated operational vehicles, including three coaster buses and four Hilux vans and pledged to include two hostel buildings in the 2025 FCT budget.<\/p>\n<p>Olayinka noted that the hostel projects will be executed under emergency provisions, covering both the 300-capacity male hostel and the 300-capacity female hostel.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the hostels, Tinubu also approved the construction of a new road linking the Body of Benchers Secretariat in Jabi District with Nile University.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FCT Minister\u2019s spokesperson, the road is expected to ease gridlock on the route leading to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado President Bola Tinubu has approved the construction of new hostel facilities to accommodate 600 students at the Abuja campus of the Nigerian Law School. The approval was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement issued by Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":75588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,183,1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-75586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-education","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75589,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75586\/revisions\/75589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}