Nigeria, Dec. 23 -- Two major public-private partnership projects approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, have remained unimplemented for more than a year after presidential approval.

Documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES show that despite securing all required regulatory clearances from the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), approval from FEC in June 2024 and legal clearance from the Federal Ministry of Justice by June 2025, UCH hasn't signed the concession agreements for the projects.

The stalled projects are the renovation and upgrading of the School of Nursing Students' Hostel, valued at about N929.9 million, and the refurbishment and rehabilitation of the...