By: Hajara Umar Nataala
Yesterday the senate passed a bill to provide the legal framework for the establishment of the Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State.
The Upper Chamber passed the bill after they considered a report by the Committee of the Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND.
The Chairman of the Committee, Ahmad Babba Kaita, recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved the establishment of nine universities across the six geopolitical zones, one of them included the Federal University, Wukari.
The lawmaker said the bill to establish the university sought to develop and offer academic and professional teaching and research programmes leading to the award of first degrees, post-graduate degrees and diplomas.
In Quote: “The presence of the university would assist the host communities to increase planning, production and processing; in addition to adaptive, technical, maintenance, developmental and productive skills in both social and management sciences as conventional university in Nigeria.”
Source: Today News