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Modibbo
establishes city varsity
In
order to foster continuing education and encourage capacity building
amongst working class residents of the Federal Capital Territory ,
the FCT Administration has concluded plans to establish a City
University in Abuja.
Federal Capital
Territory, (FCT) Minister, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar who made this
disclosure said it formed part of decisions taken at the last
council meeting of the FCTA, and also said it is the first of its
kind in Africa, while stating that the Administration will soon set
up a Committee to deal with its preliminary work including
feasibility studies on the project to ensure that the dream is
realized within a short time.
The Minister also
said that the proposed City University will only offer courses in
management sciences to take care of the needs of the workers that
would like to further their education without going out of their
working environment.
“The FCT
Administration is already working on the blue print of the proposed
University to give it a semblance of what is obtainable in other
world class cities like London and New York”, he said
Modibbo,
similarly revealed that the FCT Administration has already put a
machinery in motion to raise over N2 billion from the Organized
Private Sector to fund the University’s take-off and its eventual
development, just as he revealed that as the name depicts, the
University will not have residential accommodation or hostels,
stating that the only structures that will be built are the lecture
theatres and administrative blocks, adding that the students will
study and go back to their residential houses at the end of the day.
The Minister
remarked that a suitable site of about three to five hectares of
land will be earmarked for the University in the Abuja metropolis,
said, “We will tour the world to recruit the best hands to take
charge of the planned University, bearing in mind that we are
preparing to be one of the greatest twenty cities of the world by
the year 2020”.
The Minister gave assurance that the Abuja City
University when completed will boast of the best teaching aids and
staff in the world since the best brains will be put to task.
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