The senate, Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano, formerly North West University, over the weekend gave approval for second semester lectures for the 2020/2021 academic session to commence tomorrow, Monday, October 24, 2022.
At the meeting, the vice-chancellor and chairman of the senate of the University, Professor Mukhtar Kurawa, assured of the provision of a conducive learning environment.
Furthermore, the VC reaffirmed his administration’s determination to uplift the standard of the higher academic institution disclosing that the university has secured approval for the commencement of some new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Similarly, in a press statement, signed by the varsity’s Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Hassan, and made available to The PUNCH, Kurawa noted that the university under his leadership had recorded tremendous accomplishments in the areas of academic and infrastructural development.
According to the VC, there are five different categories of ongoing works at the university’s main campus, which include those supported by the state government, TETFund, CBN, philanthropists and the university itself.
Others include road networks and buildings of Faculties of Science and Humanities, male and female Mosques, female and male hostels, female students’ common room and central store, as well as the printing press, which had been completed.