- The vice-chancellor of Federal University Dutse (FUD), Professor Fatima Batul-Muktar has announced that 54 students of the institution recently graduated with a first class result
- Batul-Muktar reveal that the students' population has impressively increased from 202 to 5,963
- She said that the university would introduce the bachelors programme in basic education to tackle the challenges of training teachers to handle basic education in Nigeria
Fifty-four students have graduated with first class at the Federal University Dutse (FUD), Jigawa. Professor Fatima Batul-Muktar, the vice-chancellor of the university made this known at the pre-convocation briefing in Dutse on Monday, February 26.
Batul-Muktar said of the 427 graduating students, 54 made first class, 223, second class upper, 149 second class lower, while only a student made third class, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports.
In all, 427 students are graduating with degrees in different disciplines. She added that since its establishment in 2011, the university had recorded a remarkable academic and physical development.
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She said: “At inception in 2011/2012 academic session with five academic departments and three faculties, the university has now increased its academic departments to 19 and five faculties.”
According to her, the students’ population has steadily increased from 202 to 5,963. The vice-chancellor further revealed that the varsity had also concluded arrangements for the establishment of faculty of management science by September 2018.
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Batul-Muktar said the programmes that would be mounted, included B.Sc Taxation, Business Management, Accounting, Banking and Finance and Actuarial Science. She said that by 2019, the university would introduce the bachelors programme in basic education to address the challenges of training teachers to man basic education in the country.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com reported that a member of the House of Representatives had called for the renaming of the Federal University Dutsinma (FUDMA) in Kastina state.
At the plenary on Thursday, November 10, Danlami Kurfi, the lawmaker representing Kurfi/Dutsin-Ma federal constituency highlighted the need for the institution to be renamed to Muhammad Dikko Federal University, Dutsinma.
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Source: Naija.ng
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Tuesday, 27 February 2018