Section 3: Powers of the University.

1 For the carrying out of its objects as specified in section 1(5) of this Act, the Federal University of Environmental Technology, Koroma/Saakpenwa, Tai Ogoni shall have power:
a to offer courses of instruction, training and research in environmental technology and allied areas for the production of quality and skilled technologists required at lower, middle and higher levels of manpower in Nigeria in particular and the world at large;
b to establish such colleges, campuses, institutes, schools, departments and other teaching and research units within the University as may be deemed necessary or desirable subject to the approval of National Universities Commission;
c to institute professorships, readerships or associate professorships, lectureships, and other posts and offices and to make appointments thereto;
d to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, medals, prizes and other titles, distinctions, awards and forms of assistance;
e to provide for the discipline and welfare of members of the University;
f to hold examinations and grant degrees, diplomas, certificates and other distinctions to persons who have pursued a course of study approved by the University and have satisfied such other requirements as the University may lay down;
h to demand and receive from any student or any other person attending the University for the purposes of instruction, such fees as the University may determine subject to the overall directives of the Minister;
i subject to section 20 of this Act, to acquire, hold, grant, charge or otherwise deal with or dispose of movable and immovable property wherever it is situate;
j to accept gifts, legacies and donations, but without obligation to accept the same for a particular purpose unless it approves the terms and conditions attached thereto;
k to enter into contracts, establish trusts, act as trustee, solely or jointly with any other person, and employ and act through agents;
l to erect, provide, equip and maintain libraries, laboratories, workshops, lecture halls, halls of residence, refectories, sports grounds, playing fields arid other buildings or things necessary, suitable or convenient for any of the objects of the University;
m to hold public lectures and to undertake printing, publishing and book selling;
n subject to any limitations or conditions imposed by statute, to invest any money appertaining to the University by way of endowment, not being immediately required for current expenditure in any investments or securities or in the purchase or improvement of land, with power to vary any such investments to deposit any money for the time being not invested with any bank on deposit or current account;
o to borrow, whether on interest or not and if need be on the security of any or all of the property, movable or immovable, of the University, such money as the Council may in its discretion deem it necessary or expedient to borrow or guarantee any loan, advances or credit facilities;
p to make gifts for any charitable purpose;
q to do anything which it is authorised or required by this Act or by statute to do; and
r to do all such acts or things, whether or not incidental to the powers of the University to advance its objects.

2 Subject to the provisions of this Act and the statutes and without prejudice to section 7(2) of this Act, the powers conferred on the University by subsection (1) shall be exercisable on behalf of the University by the Council or by the Senate or in any other manner which may be authorised by the statute.

3 The power of the University to establish further campuses and colleges within the University shall be exercisable by statute and not otherwise.