Senate okays Abeokuta for Nigeria’s medicine varsity

The Senate has approved a bill seeking the establishment of the University of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

It will be the second university dedicated to medicine and medical sciences in Nigeria. There is a University of Medical Sciences in Ondo.

The bill for the university’s establishment, which was sponsored by Senator Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun Central, was on Wednesday presented for the third reading and was unanimously passed without dissenting voices.

The former Ogun State governor was said to have donated 170 hectares of land as the permanent site for the proposed university.

Spokesman for the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta, Segun Orisajo, said in a statement, said, “With this latest development, the bill had successfully passed its major hurdle as it awaits a concurrence by the House of Representatives, which is a mere formality.”

Orisajo said the establishment of the university was the vision of former FMC Medical Director, Prof Adewale Musa-Olomu.