The Rector, Prof. Godwin Onu, disclosed this on Sunday, during a thanksgiving service to mark his one year in office.
Onu also told journalists that the arrangements for the award of Bachelor of Technology had been finalised with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University to which it is affiliated, and was awaiting the approval of the National Universitiess Commission.
Onu's disclosure was confirmed by the Vice-Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Prof. Boniface Egboka, who was at the service in Oko.
Egboka praised Onu's achievements and urged the rector to make the welfare of students and staff his utmost priority.
The rector said that it was his desire that the polytechnic be converted to a university of science and technology before he runs out his tenure in three years' time.
He said if the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos and the Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna could be upgraded to university status, it was only natural that the polytechnic at Oko, should qualify to be accorded similar status.
But he said the Federal Government must remember to remit to the polytechnic the N300m take-off grant promised it when the Federal Government took over the polytechnic in 1992.
Onu, who said his accomplishments had overshot his programme for the first year, said a department of Chinese Studies had been instituted.
He disclosed that the radio and television stations would soon begin broadcasting, while the Education Tax Fund had approved the construction of the library complex that would house the virtual library at the cost of N160m.
He also said that a two-storey building to house the department of Food Technology would be constructed at the cost of N200m.
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