The Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, announced on Friday that the University of Abuja plans to build the first education Free Trade Zone in Nigeria.
With 11,800 hectares of land, the FTZ will be rich in mineral resources and have a mining centre.
Adesugba then urged other Nigerian universities to take part in the FTZ program and proposed that NEPZA would collaborate with University of Abuja and the Abuja Chamber of Commerce to bring industry closer to students. He stated that this kind of relationship would boost both parties, while noting that strikes are not allowed within free trade zones.
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In his words,
“We are now talking about the University free zone, education-free zone, technology-free zone, and knowledge-free zones; and we are working very closely with the University of Abuja in that regard. This is going to be one case that people are going to be very happy with. The University of Abuja has applied to be a free zone. It’s going to be the first such education-free zone. It is 10 minutes to the airport, 20 minutes to the city centre, 11,800 hectares of land with all kinds of mineral resources, free rivers, so it is going to be a mining centre”
“Interns and university students having access to knowledge-based productive activities will also come into place, so it is going to be a fantastic thing. The best thing about the free zone is that the university lecturers and everybody within that community will have something to do. They will always have something to do.
There will be warehouses for industries, hotels for conferences; the rivers will provide the terrain good enough for the gulf. So we are going to have holidays and stuff at the university and it is going to be an amazing city. It’s a city within a city, it’s a dream”
“We will also ensure there is fairness, people will be appropriately paid, it is not just going to be lecturers asking for pay that the universities can’t afford. The University of Abuja is going to be the richest in Africa, by the time we finish with this concept we will be excited about it”
Originally posted 2023-02-10 16:59:59.
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