By Kuni Tyessi
Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja), Professor Abdul-Rasheed NaâAllah, has described the events that led to a recent protest within the campus as regrettable, pledging that it will never reoccur.
He said an investigation has began to unravel the remote causes of the student uprising, just as he assured that nothing would derail the reform measures being instituted in the university.
NaâAllah who mad this known when celebrating the Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Administration, Professor Sani Muhammed Adam, who recently got elevated as Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LLPC), said it was unfortunate that the students resolved to protest.
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THE Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, has commiserated with the family of the pioneer VC of the university, Professor Isa Baba Mohammed, who died on Monday, December 28, 2020.
The late Mohammed served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja between 1988 – 1998.
In a condolence message on Tuesday on behalf of the Governing Council, Senate, staff and students of UNIABUJA, by the university’s Head of Information and University Relations, Dr Habib Yakoob, Professor Na’Allah, said as the pioneer VC laid a solid foundation which successive administrations had built upon to lift the university to its present height.
Of University of Abuja, Land Enchroachers and Development, By Okuboye Michael Adeshina 5 min read
Given the relatively slow pace of development at the University in the last couple of years, it almost appeared as if the University of Abuja had taken more land – over 11,000 hectares – than it could use. But this is certainly unrealistic as the University of Abuja is the only public university in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and it will remain to serve many generations in the future.
Several years ago, not a few people had reservations about coming to settle in Abuja, because they saw the then new Federal Capital Territory as largely remote and unpromising. Today, there are people everywhere scrambling for every piece of land in Abuja, even in places they ordinarily ought to steer away from. This is, perhaps, the case at the University of Abuja currently, where a large swathe of land meant for the University is being encroached upon by all sorts of people