From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The management of Kogi State University has officially announced that the institution is now to be formally known and called Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba.
The Registrar of the university, Alhaji Nuhu Ahmodu Ahmed, disclosed this in a statement he signed and made available to Our Correspondent.
Our Correspondent, however, recalls that the University was renamed after the first democratically elected Governor of Kogi State, late Prince Abubakar Audu, who died about three years ago and whose administration established the institution about 30 years ago.
Ahmed said the change in the nomenclature of the university followed the passage of the law “to repeal and reenact the law to establish Prince Abubakar Audu University” by the state House of Assembly, and assented to by the Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.
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From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The Kogi State Government is set to Flag off the school adoption Programme for secondary schools in the State, January 26th.
The School Adoption Programme is one of the brain chide of the New Direction Administration for well-to-do individuals in the State to adopt a school to motivate and teach the students.
The Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology, Wemi Jones disclosed this when he received the Organizers and winners of Ileya Omo Okun in his Office in Lokoja.
He said the move was to engage the students early enough to avoid them been used by politicians to perpetrate Electoral violence and thuggery.
According to him, in the course of the Programme, skill acquisition will also be introduced towards promoting self reliance for Kogi youths.
The Commissioner called on public spirited individuals in Okun land to key into the programme as the project is also opened to all and sundry.