FULafia V-C calls for enabling environment for youth devt
|By Othman Alaga & Amina Suleiman The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Professor Shehu Abdul Rahman, has called on governments, at all levels, and key stakeholders to provide resources and enabling environment for Nigerian youths to harness their potentials and develop. Abdul Rahman made the call on the occasion of the 2021 Nasarawa State Peace and Security Summit orgarnised by the National Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN) at the Ta’al Conference Hotel in Lafia. The NYCN is an umbrella body of youth associations that seeks youth development, engendering and promotion of peace, unity and tolerance in Nigeria, especially among …
As ICRC inaugurates FULafia PPP, Abdul Rahman seeks for collaboration —Abdul Rahman seeks for collaboration
|By Yahaya Ahmed The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Professor Shehu Abdul Rahman, has urged the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) to closely work with the University to develop projects to benefit students and workers. The Vice-Chancellor made his call at the occasion of the inauguration of the FULafia Public Private Partnership (PPP) committee by some officials of the ICRC. The event took place, recently, at the University Senate Chamber, Permanent Site Campus, in Lafia. The ICRC was established in 2008 by the Federal Government of Nigeria to regulate PPP (public private partnership) with the aim of addressing Nigeria’s …
Be creative, FULafia V-C tells students
|By Yahaya Ahmed & Musa Ishaq The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Professor Shehu Abdul Rahman, has advised students of the institution to be creative in order to be what he called “credential and potential graduates.” The vice-chancellor gave the advise at the 2021 town and gown literary interaction of the Creative Writers’ Forum (CWF) of FULafia. The Creative Writers’ Forum is an association that promote and maintains literary creativity and reading culture among students within and outside the University. Prof. Abdul Rahman, who reminded the students that Nigeria was passing through some hard times ranging from youth unemployment …
Abdul Rahman: Be humble, pride will not get you anywhere
By Abubakar Ibrahim & Yahaya Ahmed As part of the engagement process he initiated since his assumption of office in February, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Professor Shehu Abdul Rahman, has, recently, visited the faculties of arts and science, where he said to the lecturers: “Be humble, pride will not get you anywhere.” He, therefore, advised the lecturers to shun materialism and unhealthy academic rivalry which could give birth to arrogance misplacement of academic values. Abdul Rahman urged the lecturers to pay more attention to their profession and ignore negative attitudes that could truncate their progression. …
Prof. Abdul Rahman entrenching due process in FULafia
|By Paulinus Auta In his effort to make the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) one of the best five in Africa, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Shehu Abdul Rahman, insists that due process must be strictly adhered to in all affairs of the University. Due process implies that University business, policies and programmes must be carried out transparently and efficiently, without sentiment of any kind It also suggests that staff and students of the University must act according to established laws and standard in the course of discharging their duties. Abdul Rahman is therefore, of the view that the strength and success …
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