Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger State has inaugurated a 16-member governing council for the newly established state-owned Abdulkadir Kure College of Training, Minna.
Bago, whereas inaugurating the governing council on the Authorities Home, Minna, mentioned the state authorities is poised to provide precedence to training from the essential to the tertiary degree.
He defined that quickly the College of Agriculture and Local weather Change, Mokwa, and the College of Know-how and Innovation, Zungeru, will come on board.
The governor advised the council members: ” This occasion is historic and I respect you accepting to key into the “New Niger” imaginative and prescient. I guarantee the board that funding has already been secured for the take-off of the establishment. A committee is already in place to have a look at the drawings wanted for the continual improvement of the establishment.”
He additionally disclosed that the College of Training will quickly be remodeled into a standard one on account of the hole within the capability of individuals and youngsters in such fields as drugs, aviation, science and know-how, and local weather change, amongst others.
Bago revealed that scholarships will likely be launched for all college students in public faculties who rating 5 credit, together with English and Arithmetic, to review on the college.
Moreover, the governor mentioned the choice to take a position closely within the IBBU Lapai Instructing Hospital, Minna, is as a result of it’ll serve all universities inside the state which are going to have drugs and different medical science-related programs of their curricula.
Earlier, the Professional-Chancellor of Abdulkadir Kure College of Training, Minna, Prof Mohammed Yahaya Kuta, said that the Nationwide Universities Fee, NUC, had accepted all 41 programmes submitted however 14 had been to be applied within the 2023–2024 educational session.
He additionally disclosed that the NUC accepted a 3,000 admission quota and the establishment has communicated with the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, for rapid admission processes.
The 16-member governing council of the college contains the Professional-Chancellor, Prof. Kuta Yahaya, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Muhammad Aliyu Paiko, and Prof. Tsado Jacob, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
Others are Dr Garba Abdullahi (Registrar), Hajiya Hajara Kuso (Bursar), Dr Abubakar Abdullahi ( Director, Tutorial Planning), Garba Muhammad Shambo (Librarian I) and Maryam Suloboyi (Librarian II).
Those that will function council members are Haijya Kere Ahmed, Muhammad Dattijo Usman, Barrister Abbas Bello, Hajiya Hassana Adamu, Abdullahi Lawal Maikano, Hamidu Jantabo Mu’azu and Abdullahi Adamu Mamagi.