President Adama Barrow was informed that The Gambia government and a consortium of donors have agreed to fast track construction works of the permanent campus of the University of The Gambia in Faraba Banta, following a two-day financing meeting.

News of the agreement was revealed by the Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Badara Joof, who led a delegation to the State House on Wednesday September 4 to present a report of the funding meeting to President Adama Barrow as well as to seal the final arrangement on the completion of construction works of the University of The Gambia Faraba Banta Campus.

Part of Minister Joof’s delegation included officials from funding partners such as the Kuwaiti Fund, Islamic Development Bank, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), OPEC and, the Saudi Fund.

“The state of works at the campus is slow, and it needs to be improved. That is why they are here to make sure that we accelerate the pace of works at [the] Faraba Banta campus”, Minister Joof said, revealing that he was hoping that the project will be inaugurated by 2021.