Jukun/Tiv crisis: Wukari varsity resumes activities

Academic activities have fully returned to Federal University, Wukari, Taraba state, after two weeks break  that followed  the protest by Tiv students over the killing of two of their colleagues.

Vice chancellor of the university, Professor Abubakar Kundiri, in a telephone interview with journalists Wednesday said full academic activities had resumed in the school and students were preparing for an examination which was scheduled to commence on Monday next week.

Kundiri who stated that normalcy had returned to the area also sued for peace for the progress and development of the area.

Chairman of Tiv Staff Forum in the institution, Mr. Patrick Tion, also confirmed that normalcy had been restored and Tiv students were back on campus.

“We held a meeting with the university management Tuesday and they assured us of adequate security.

“For now, the situation is calm and students are going about their normal academic activities,” he said.

The vice chancellor said he had secured full accreditation for 27 undergraduate courses and 29 postgraduate programmes in the university.

Kundiri also said he had developed a medium-term strategic plan to drive the growth of the university, adding that already all abandoned projects including faculty buildings, lecture theatres, classrooms, halls, cafeterias, medical centre, student hostels, perimeter fencing, and entrepreneurial centre, among others, had been completed.

“We have established School of Postgraduate Studies and secured accreditation for 29 postgraduate programmes up to doctoral level, in addition to the construction of new faculty buildings to house faculties of Education, Engineering and Technology, Law and Medicine.

“We have appointed over 20 professors and associate professors as well as senior academic staff in order to meet the quality requirements of programmes of the oniversity.

“This is in addition to the partnership agreements with diverse organizations, including the French government for the sponsorship of academic staff for postgraduate studies.”

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