NIGERIA (Lagos)—As one of numerous ways of appreciating her kind gesture, the University of Lagos is set to name a 15-storey girls hostel after Her Excellency, Dame (Dr.) Patience Jonathan.

This was disclosed in Lagos yesterday by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Duro Oni, who added that the building which would cost about N3 billion would be in acknowledging First Lady’s contribution towards women folks.

He said: “It is a female hostel and the person due to be named after it is the President’s wife who has touched the lives of many women.”

According to him, like other tertiary institutions, UNILAG had been having problem of accommodation hindering students especially the female students getting to school on time, saying “about 28,000 undergraduates struggle for 8,500 spaces every year in UNILAG.”

 In the same vein, Chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, Prof. Nwose Chukuma, said the building would be funded by the parents’ forum of the institution: “The parents’ forum is not only building a hostel to help solve accommodation problem in the university, the 15-storey hostel project is named after the First Lady to honour her for her numerous contributions to the development and emancipation of women in Nigeria and Africa.”