The foundation for a N400 million ($2 million) second ICT skills acquisition centre has been laid at Babcock University, Ilesan-Remo, Ogun State, by New Horizons.
The four-storey building will contain 2,000 computers, best-in-class in-motion-biometrics (IMBM), SAP LMS Success Factor, U-Pointer among others.
The building which will be called the New Horizons/Babcock ICT Empowerment Centre will be used by undergraduates, postgraduates and those outside seeking the university’s international ICT certifications. It is being built beside the present 1,000-capacity computer centre operated by the company.
Each floor of the new building will have 500 sitter computers, including intelligent boards, multimedia projectors, networking software, international IT-E biz courses/curricula, furniture, UPS, certified instructors, international exams centre and students courseware/books.
After completion, Babcock will boast of a 3,000 computer training facility which will most likely be one of the largest in any university in the world.
The chairman, New Horizons Nigeria, the world’s largest private IT training company, Mr Dotun Sulaiman, together with members of the governing council of the university, while laying the foundation for the building at the weekend, said that when completed, it
will position Babcock as the premier IT
learning higher institution in Africa.
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