Bago Inaugurates 16-man Governing Board for New Niger Varsity
Governor Umaru Bago has inaugurated the 16-man governing board of the newly-approved Abdulkhadir Kure University of Education in Minna in Niger State.
The governing board has prof. Mohammed Yahaya as the pro chancellor while Prof. Muhammad Paiko is the first vice chancellor and Prof. Tsado Jacob is the deputy vice chancellor.
Bago, who inaugurated the board at the government house in Minna, challenged the team to hit the ground running and put the university on a high pedestal, assuring that funding of the institution had already been secured for the take-off of the institution.
Bago also disclosed that a committee had been put in place to look at the drawings made for the expansion and development of the institution.
He added that the institution should be transformed into a conventional one due to the gap in capacity, explaining that there is also the need to have fields like medicine, aviation, science and technology and climate change studied at the university.
To attract more students into the university, Bago disclosed that a scholarship scheme will be introduced for all students from public schools who obtained five credits including, English and Mathematics at one sitting to study at the university.
He restated that a University of Agriculture and Climate Change will be located at Mokwa, while another University of Technology and Innovation will be located at Zungeru.
Bago maintained that the decision of the administration to invest heavily in the IBBU Lapai Teaching Hospital was for it to service all universities within the state that are going to offer medicine and other medical science-related courses.
The Pro Chancellor of the university, Yahaya disclosed that the National Universities Commission (NUC) had approved all the 41 programmes submitted, but that only 14 were to be implemented in the 2023/2024 academic session which he said will commence soon.
The NUC, he said, had also approved a 3,000 admission quota which had been communicated to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).