The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMINNA), Prof. Musbau Akanji, has announced that the university will establish three new departments in the School of Engineering from the 2015/2016 academic session.
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Prof. Akanji said the proposed departments are Oil and Gas, Welding and Material and Metrological Engineering.
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He explained that the decision to establish the new departments was informed by the Federal Government's desire to domesticate the activities in the country's Oil and Gas and other industries.
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Akanji noted that the university observed the growing demands of these areas in the country quest for achieving vision 20: 2020.
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He added that two of the departments had already been approved by the Senate of the university.