YOLA — Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state has announced automatic employment to five best graduating students at the Adamawa State University and overseas scholarship to further their education.
The Governor made the announcement in his speech at the third to fifteenth convocation ceremony of the institution Saturday with ninety-two students graduating with first-class honour degrees.
The University held its last convocation twelve years ago following setbacks caused by Boko Haram attacks and industrial unrest between staff and management.
This year’s convocation eleven thousand, six hundred and twenty-five (11,625) were awarded higher degrees which include ten thousand, five hundred and thirty-five (10,535) undergraduates, and one thousand and ninety (1,090) postgraduates.
The Governor who is the visitor of the university congratulated the graduands for attaining the feat having toiled to complete their various courses and certified to be the recipients of their respective degrees and certificates.
“I commend Students, Staff, and Management of the University for standing firm in spite of the challenging security situation, and remaining resolute in choosing Mubi to be their destination for research, learning and a hatchery of leaders of the next generation.
“Government will make Annual research Grant of twenty-five million naira (N25m) into the dedicated interest-earning Account of the University which will be in the Annual Budget of the State as a specific line for the next four years to be conferred on qualified persons.
“Government has constructed new lecture theatres and internal roads in the main Campus and is constructing a hostel complex at the Sahuda Road Campus in addition to internal roads, walkways, and potable water and other amenities”, Fintiri added.
In a remark after his installation, the Chancellor of the University who is the Emir of Pindiga in Gombe state, Alhaji Muhammad Seyoji Ahmed, acknowledged that the institution has the enviable reputation of being the first state university in the northeast.
He lauded Governor Umaru Fintiri for repositioning the university within shortest possible time.
In his remark, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council of ADSU Alhaji Auwal Tukur said the institution was established in 2002 making it the first State University in the Northeast and the second state university established in northern Nigeria after that of Benue.
Also speaking, the Vice-Chancellor of Adamawa State University Prof Kaltapwa George Farauta disclosed that the university is faced with myriads of challenges that include among others power, internet connectivity, and human resources.
Though, she said the University has ninety-eight percent accreditation of all undergraduate programmes, secured approval from National University’s Commission NUC for two new faculties, thirteen departments, and seven programmes.
