He said the figure being spent on interventions kept increasing every year.
He added that 143 lecturers were also sponsored for Master’s Degrees in foreign and local institutions at N359 million, among others.
Mr Kalu said the National Assembly would continue to work with the executive to make educational institutions globally competitive.
The construction of the male and female hostels was sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), 2020 special intervention.
Mr Echono said that projects undertaken with the funds had remarkably impacted on the university mandate.
Mr Ezeibe said curriculum development was integral to tertiary education that fosters functional and impactful tertiary education.
“This obviously requires deliberate action on the part of all stakeholders to address our peculiar challenges,” he added.
The governor, who noted the educational decline of the state, said that the visit was necessary to ensure education takes its place.
The professor said that migration of doctors had become a challenge to the college in terms of having enough doctors to train.
“It is my belief that the outcome of this investigation will add value to what heads of institutions are doing in the state,” Mr Zulum said.
