NIS Boss Insists Upgrading FSS Oyo to Varsity Will Influence Development

The Chairman, Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Oyo State Chapter, Surv.(ALH) Waheed Abiodun Lamidi has stated that the readiness of the Federal Government, through the National Assembly, in collaboration with the National Universities Commission (NUC), to upgrade the Federal School of Surveying, Oyo, to a degree-awarding institution is a welcome idea.

He insists that its establishment would promote National development across the country.

He made this remark in a chat with Tribune Online, following the public and stakeholders’ hearing on the FSS varsity conversion proposed Bill, initiated by Senator Yunus Abiodun Akintunde, held recently.

According to him, the school was overdue for the transformation process into a degree-awarding institution of learning, given its teaching experiences, quality research facilities, and sufficient human resources to produce skilled graduates in the surveying and Geomatics field. 

 He noted that over the years, the envisioned ambition of NIS members in the country for the school to be upgraded to university status is becoming a reality.

 This, he said, was evident in the recent development at the Senate, which showed its readiness to consider the approval of the school as a degree-awarding institution. 

He noted that the school was established in 1908 as a training institution for surveyors in  Nigeria.

“There are no trained Surveyors in Nigeria that did not passed through the school for training, a certificate of National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma levels,” describing the move to convert the school as a welcome development for surveyors in the country.

“All NIS members in the country are ready to offer their moral support towards the development of the proposed university. The establishment of such an institution to produce graduates of professional surveyors and Geomatics for Nigeria cannot be overemphasised.

“I therefore appeal to the Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and the entire National Assembly to fast-track the approval and its immediate take-off,” he urged.

Continuing, the NIS Oyo Chairman appreciated the current Rector of the school, Dr. Dupe Olayinka-Dosumu (an Associate Professor in Geomatics) and members of the Governing Council of the institution for their efforts to make a case for the school’s upgrading process.