BAZE UNIVERSITY, ABUJA : ESTABLISH TEACHING HOSPITAL: NORTHERN RICH MEN SHOULD TAKE A CUE FROM SENATOR BABA- AHMAD

BAZE UNIVERSITY, ABUJA : ESTABLISH TEACHING HOSPITAL: NORTHERN RICH MEN SHOULD TAKE A CUE FROM SENATOR BABA- AHMAD

                                  By:
                 Nurudeen Dauda 
                 28th March,2017
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I will never relent God's willing in my call to the Northern elite cum rich men towards investment in the educational sector. For me, it remains lamentable for having only one private university in the whole of North- West a zone with 7 states filled up with Millionaires or Billionaires or Trillionnaires or Quadrillionnaires or Quintillionnaires or Sextillionnaires or Septillionnaires or Octillionnaire or Nonillionnairs or Decillionnairs or Squinlionnaires or Gazillionnairs or Zillionnaires.

Senator Yusuf Danti Baba-Ahmed of the famous Baba- Ahmad Family was the Founder and Pro–Chancellor of Baze University, a private University located in Abuja. Congratulations sir!

The National Universities Council (NUC) has issued a letter of approval to Baze University Abuja, to commence programmes in Basic Medical Sciences and Environmental Sciences, taking effect from 2016/2017 academic session. The university also got the approval to commence the building of a Teaching Hospital.

AL-QALAM UNIVERSITY KATSINA IS THE ONLY PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN THE NORTH-WEST.                            I strongly believe that this is against the "vision" of the great Sir Ahmadu Bello and the essential Alhaji Isa Kaita,the first minister of Education of the defunct Northern Region. Were Sir Ahmadu Bello alive he would have felt betrayed. Our elite must have a rethink on this serious issue. Let's reverse the trend. 

OUT OF THE 68 PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA ONLY 15 ARE IN THE NORTH:WHERE ARE THE NORTHERN RICH MEN? The North West despite being one of most populated region has one (1) private university, North East has two (2) universities, North Central, South East and South -South each have twelve (12) universities while South West has 30.
                   

In my view, this calls for soul searching. It calls for reflection. It is totally unacceptable. No one has cheated on us on this, but ourselves. Undoubtedly "Education" is a Vehicles for "Social Mobility " which has the power of turning the child of a poor man to the number one citizen of his country.

Get me correctly, l am not calling for Charity Private Universities. Private Universities are run professionally with quality and on profit basis in many parts of the world. let's do just that. Harvard University,Washington University ,Yale University, Stanford University,Princeton University, and University of Pennsylvania are all private universities. A lot of Universities in the Southern part of Nigeria are owned by religious organizations. Let's  have Jama'atu Nasaral Islam University, Jibwis(Izala) University,Tijjaniyya and Kadiriyya (Darika) Universities which will definitely assist the organizations in generating funds for their activities.

It seems like the Northern rich men prefer sending their children schools abroad than establishing private universities in the North. It will do them good if they retrace their steps and start establishing private universities here at home. The religion, culture and values of their children will be well protected at home for obvious reasons. It will create jobs to people and save the nation a lot foreign reserves. Establishing private universities is a business not charity. The investors will likely make a lot of money from it. The Northern rich men must be reminded that, investment in education should and must not be  left to the government alone . I am not calling for establishing private Universities for charity. It is being run as a business as such let's do it that way.

Permit me to speak some home truth. Majority of our rich people are not interested in investment whether in schools or industries or manufacturing and  or media etc., except of course, few of them. A lot of them prefer investing abroad or remain as consumers. If we must not continue to be a laughing stock we must change.

Congratulations once again Senator (Dr) Baba Ahmad!

May God bless Nigeria!

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