It took the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi just two years to establish the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS) Igbo-Eno, Enugu State.This is the first of its kind in the South East and among the first in Nigeria.
The first class project was borne out of desire to provide more opportunities for all desiring youths in the country especially the youthful citizens of Enugu State to gain training in their chosen professional disciplines.
It provides more opportunities for professional and competitive courses such as Medicine, Pharmacy, Allied Health Sciences, Engineering, Law, etc. 
The institution has six faculty buildings each with eight to 12 huge classrooms, laboratories and 36 offices.
There are also two completed hostels each with 450 bed spaces (one for male and one for female), a medical centre that is well equipped to even provide tertiary medical services, the solar powered streetlights, and a teaching hospital which has reached an advanced stage.
Governor Ugwuanyi has made adequate provisions to ensure that all the ongoing projects (the teaching hospital, the ICT building, the road network, the perimeter fencing and the main gate are completed. The entire university is provided with multiple numbers of industrial scale boreholes for efficient supply of water.
In addition, the construction of 33KVA dedicated high voltage powerline from Nru-junction injection sub-station to the university has been approved for the university. This is to ensure steady power supply to the university.”
With the facilities already provided and the crop of management staff chosen, the medical university will grow to be among the top universities in the country.
Provisions for sustainable funding of the new university had also been put in place.
First set of 789 students had been admitted into the 23 programmes approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC), spread into six faculties.
Enugu will ever be grateful to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for this landmark project.
One of the many outstanding projects of his administration.
