The Pro-Chancellor of former Pen Resource University Dr Sani Jauro, on Monday, said the North-Eastern University will compete among the best varsities in the country and globally within the space of 10 years.
PERISCOPE NIGERIA reports that North-Eastern University has four Faculties, 27 degree programmes and a Centre for African Medicinal Plants Research among others within the two years of its existence.
Our correspondent reports that the Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, alongside his entourage unveiled the new name at the varsity’s front gate.
Recall that the defunct name was an offshoot of its Academy, reputed for its standard.
According to Jauro, having come this far, the university is now of age, adding that it was time for the varsity to take its own name and chart its own independent course.
Jauro who doubles as Founder of the varsity noted that the name change would yield the requisite opportunities for the students, region and country at large.
He said, “At take-off, we decided to name the university in the image of its progenitor, the great Pen Resource Academy, Gombe for the nascent university to earn public confidence by leveraging the goodwill, integrity and excellence in standards that is meritoriously synonymous with the Academy. Thus, the name Pen Resource University, Gombe. Today, our university students and their parents/sponsors can attest to the fact that we have surpassed their expectations in terms of all standards.”
Speaking further on the decision of a name change Jauro harped that North-Eastern University was reserved, noting that the institution would pave way for the desired development in the region and country at large.
“Our new name: North-Eastern University, GOMBE (a name we reserved for the university long before we started the processes for obtaining the operational licence), is rooted in our vision to establish a university indigenous of the North-Eastern part of Nigeria in character. A university that can further develop the world by paving ways to harness the excellent brainpower, knowledge, integrity, morality, sense of responsibility, love and sacrifice for the other, human and financial strengths, fertile land pregnant with oil, gas and solid minerals, as well as the traditional sciences and technology handed down by our progenitors but neglected over time.
“The task of the North-Eastern University, Gombe, is therefore very clear. It is to serve as a nexus for development, bringing together all the necessary north-eastern Nigeria’s endowments for the development of mankind. This is also what our logo symbolises: the book and the pen symbolise our brain power and scholarly culture; the bull and fertile soil symbolize our strength and our wealth; the white colour is for peace while the sky blue is indicative of our limit as the sky; and, the shield is protective of our mission and our continuous national integration as Nigerians,” Jauro added.
