The family of a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), has donated an additional ultramodern female hostel to the University of Benin, making it the second within the last 15 months.

At the inauguration ceremony, yesterday, in Benin, the matriarch of the family, Daisy Danjuma, said that the Danjuma family felt it owed the university more than the institution owed them.

Danjuma, who was represented by the Managing Director, Ogba Zoological Garden and Nature Park, Andy Ehanire, lauded the university for singling out the former minister and his wife for honourary doctoral degrees.
It was gathered that the family has also laid a foundation for another hostel for the males in the university.

“The donation of the hostels is like a token. I was around at the inauguration of the first hostel. I know that UNIBEN Students’ Union President made a passionate plea that the Danjuma’s family should not forget the boys.

“I have also bought into the agenda. So, I pray that two hostels should go on at the same time for the boys,” Danjuma said.

The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Lilian Salami, said that the edifice, named after the matriarch of the family, Daisy, demonstrated a belief in the girl-child and her development.

“We are here to celebrate someone who is just marvellous. I say so with no reservation.

“How can someone sit in her quiet corner, and continue to give? If not someone whom God has created to impact humanity,” Salami said.