THE Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, Prof. Hayward Babale Mafuyai has said that there is no single progamme being run by the university that is not accredited by the Nigerian University Commission (NUC).
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He stated this last Friday in Jos while addressing journalists on the result of the recent NUC resource verification of the university at the senate chambers.
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Mafuyai said: "The University of Jos needed to introduce programmes in areas that will maximally impact on the nation's natural resources and ensure food security and technological development given that the weather on the Plateau is unique and synonymous with the growth of certain exotic crop varieties hence the justification for the establishment of a Faculty of Agriculture in the university."
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"The establishment of an engineering programme was also long overdue given the long history of mining activities in the state such that the university could be a transformational agent that would bring about the adoption of best practices in the mining sector in Plateau and Nigeria at large," he said.
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"When I got into office, the task before us was crystal clear. We had to immediately set in motion the machinery for the actualization of these programmes and this was done with utmost sense of responsibility having at the back of our minds that the notion that everything that needed to be done had to be done right so it is therefore with a sense of pride that the university is in receipt of a communication from the NUC conveying to us the commission's approval for the establishment of the Full time mode for the establishment of ten new programmes to be run on the campus of the university only, effective from the 2014/2015 academic session", he added.
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Mafuyai listed the newly accredited programmes as civil engineering, electrical/electronics engineering, mechanical engineering, mining engineering,criminology and security studies, music, physical and health education, integrated science, veterinary science and agriculture.
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He called on all benefactors especially the catchment states government to endeavour to build a robust partnership with the university by investing in the development of permanent structures that will house these new faculties and provision of facilities that would ensure their sustenance in order to safe guard the future of the next generation of citizens of the country.