By Sunusi A. K/Na’isa
The Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education (SRUE), Kumbotso, conducted its maiden matriculation ceremony for 1,740 undergraduates on Tuesday at Kwankwaso Hall.
Addressing the new undergraduates, the Hon. Commissioner of the Ministry for Higher Education, Dr. Yusuf Ibrahim Kofarmata, tasked them to embrace self-discipline, self-care, good dressing, and comportment within and outside the campus.
He pointed out that the government’s decision to establish Sa’adatu Rimi University makes a lot of sense.
According to him, ” Because of the preference of youth for university education, secondly it will help to produce the needed human capacities to drive the state in its pursuit of a free education policy, and lastly, it will greatly address the idle youth syndrome,” Kofarmata stated.
The commissioner, added that the state government is very much aware of the competition for the limited places that characterize Nigerian Universities.
He however, described SRUE as a student-centered university, commended the varsity’s management for organizing the event at this crucial time and the laudable achievements recorded by the university within the short period of assumption.
Dr. Yusuf Kofarmata emphasized that with the assumption of the present administration of Abba Kabir Yusuf, education is one of the thematic areas, which is why the government has declared the sector a state of emergency.
He underscored the various achievements of the present administration of the state under the exemplary leadership of Abba Yusuf, particularly in the higher education sector, such as the deduction of 30% of its fiscal budget, the restoration of the foreign scholarship program, a 50% slash of registration fees, the resuscitation of 15 skills acquisition institutions, and the establishment of Ghari College of Education and Preliminary Studies, as well as the facilitation of all outstanding accreditation exercises in state-owned institutions.
Dr. Yusuf also congratulated the new students for the opportunity they have, ” It is your individual and collective intellect, experience, ingenuity and knowledge that will help to shape a new world order and design the society.
In his welcome address, the Vice-Chancellor of Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Prof. Yahaya Isa Bunkure, said the university secured 1,740 new students approved by JAMB.
The university matriculation is the first since the upgrading of the college to a university of education. He thanked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for his tireless efforts in improving the education sector and supporting the success of the program.
Dr. Yahaya Bunkure enumerated laudable remarks recorded by the university, including staff welfare, assistance for academic staff to pursue PhDs and master’s degrees (over 1000 from each category), and the provision of state-of-the-art facilities for laboratory research and innovation.
He congratulated the new intake as the first undergraduates of the university, charging them to avoid evil acts that would lead to disengagement from the university community.
