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June 2019 Vol. VII No. 6 A Monthly Publication from the Office of the Vice - C h a n c e l l o r Inside: Shugaba Urges Experts to Proffer Solutions to the Challenges of Lake Chad Region ...p 3 NUC Accreditation Team Visits UNIMAID Distance Learning Centre ...p 5 From Him We Come and to Him We Shall Return ...p 6 UNIMAID Gets First ICT Policy Document – Prof. Gutti ...p 11 Late Prof. Edith Chinwe Anaso - A Lover of Peace, Beacon of Unity ...p 13 From Herbs to Drugs – Prof. Iliya ...P14 Digital Infrastructure: Defining the Next Step ...p 16 © University of Maiduguri, Nigeria - www.unimaid.edu.ng MISSION STATEMENT The University of Maiduguri shall be an institution dedicated to scholarship and learning in the arts, sciences, humanities and technology, and the development of moral and civic character of all persons who pass through her portals. The University shall facilitate and advance scholarship and learning, especially in the light of her location in the Sahelian environment in the North-Eastern Nigeria, and at the cross-roads of Afri- ca and Middle-Eastern culture. VISION STATEMENT The University of Maiduguri apart from achieving competence in the basic arts and sciences, aims at excel- lence in agriculture, pastoralism, engineering, human and veterinary medicine and information technology as well as in arid zone, trans-Saharan and inter-African peace and strategic studies. The University also aims to promote the development of private and public morality, discipline, accountability and probity, and also international cooperation through participation, research and dissemination of information. All letters should be addressed to: Published by: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor, The Deputy Director, Information Unit, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria Senate Building, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. email: [email protected] email: [email protected] June, 2019 Vol. VII No. 6 EDITORIAL DESK The reassurances received by the Vice Chancellor University of Maiduguri, Professor Aliyu Shugaba, from all and sundry are omens of good hope in the start-up of a new administrator in the institution. This issue of the Unimaid Bulletin covers the encouraging pledges made by the Executive Governor of Borno State, Pro- fessor Babagana Umara Zulum, and the Executive Secretary Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Pro- fessor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, towards the University of Maiduguri and its management team during a brief rendezvous. The Bulletin brings along the report on an all-encompassing brainstorming engagement by the nation’s de- velopment partners - UNESCO and AfDB - at a critical time and scenario in the North-East. The emergence of University of Maiduguri as one of the four pilot centres of distance learning to be used in carrying out quality assurance assessment and implementation of the E-Learning Programme forms part of the highlights. Proposal for a change of nomenclature for the Computer and ICT Centre and the development of a legisla- tive framework that will serve as guideline in the administration of ICT services in the University of Maidu- guri also emerged as key issues in the Bulletin. The Bulletin gives an insight on the wind of change intensify- ing massive disruptions to the traditional ways we have been doing things in an unequivocal perspective. “From Him we come and to Him we shall all return”. On a very solemn note, we report the parting of our beloved colleagues, mothers, sisters and above all lovers of peace and beacon of unity in the University community. They may be gone but the virtues they left behind will linger long after their departure. May their gentle souls rest in peace. Editorial Board Professor M. I. Ahmed - Chairman Professor M. L. Mele - Member Dr. Mary Pindar Ndahi - Member Mall. Musa Usman - Member Mall. Mohammed T. Ahmed - Member Fati Aliyu B. Abba - Secretary Mall. Mohammed T. Ahmed, mnipr - Deputy Director, Information Alh. Suleiman Garba - Chief Photographer Ahmadu Abubakar - Photographer Mohammed M. Lawan - Photographer Bintu Mohammed (Mrs.) - Reporter Rabi U. Yusuf (Mrs.) - Reporter Abdulmumin Kolo Gulani - Reporter Abubakar Mustapha - Reporter Faculty/Directorate Representatives - Reporters Kyari Ali - Circulation Professor M. I. Ahmed - Design, Development & Integration 1 June, 2019 Vol. VII No. 6 NEWS for more intervention projects for the University as, he Executive Governor of Borno State, Prof. Engr. Babagana Umara according to him, the Executive Secretary is an T Zulum, has stated that the Vice alumnus of the University of Maiduguri who gradu- Chancellor University of Maiduguri, Professor Ali- ated in the year 1981 and will no doubt consider yu Shugaba, is a man of integrity who will im- bringing in more projects to his alma mater. mensely contribute to the development of educa- Responding, the Executive Secretary disclosed that tion in Borno State. the physical commencement of fencing the Univer- The Governor stated this on 17th June 2019 when sity will soon take-off stressing that he was the one the Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust who signed and released funds for the construction Fund (TETFUND), Prof. Suleiman Elias Bogoro paid of the Senate Building and expressed happiness him a courtesy visit at the Government House. with renaming it after President Muhammadu Buhari. The Governor, while appealing to the Executive Secretary for more project interventions to higher He noted that he has emotional feelings towards institutions in the State, revealed that the Vice Maiduguri and the University of Maiduguri as he Chancellor was a teacher to him before he joined sees it as home coming and commended the ef- the service of the University and promised to work forts of the former Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibra- with him for the development of education in the him Abubakar Njodi, for the honour he gave him state. to address members of the Senate of the Universi- ty during his last visit. In a related development, the Vice Chancellor University of Maiduguri, Professor Aliyu Shugaba, has earlier received the TETFUND Executive Sec- retary, Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, in his of- fice at the University. Professor Shugaba, while commending the Executive Secretary for his sup- port to University of Maiduguri, revealed that so many infrastructures within the University were initiated by Professor Bogoro including the Mu- hammadu Buhari Senate Building and Professorial TETFUND Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, making remarks on the purpose of his visit Quarters, among others. The Vice Chancellor used while the Vice Chancellor Professor Aliyu Shugaba the opportunity to request the Executive Secretary looks on Cont’d on page 3 2 June, 2019 Vol. VII No. 6 NEWS Cont’d from page 2 Professor Bogoro then thanked Professor Aliyu Shugaba for maintaining cordial relationship be- Saed, Engr. Mustapha Gotala, Audu Garba, Mu- tween TETFUND and the University stressing that hammed Abba Al-Khadi, Ahmad Kassim, Engr. Mo- University of Maiduguri is amongst the cosmopoli- tan universities in Nigeria because of its diversity in terms of staff employment and students admis- sions. As an alumnus, he said he is proud to be associated with the University and promised to bring in more projects to it whenever the oppor- tunity arises. During the visit, the Governor, the Executive Sec- The Vice Chancellor Professor Aliyu Shugaba and TET- FUND Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman Elias Bo- retary TETFUND and the Vice Chancellor Universi- goro (First row, Centre) in a group photograph with Prin- ty of Maiduguri took a facility tour of Borno State cipal officers of the University and TETFUND University. The Executive Secretary was accompa- hammed Habib, Engr. Kaigama, Malam Abba Ali nied by the Acting Director Department of Physi- Benisheik, Abubakar Dandaku, TETFUND contrac- cal Infrastructures, Buhari Munkaila, Alh. Idris tor and Engr. Abubakar Isa, among others. he Vice Chancellor University of Muhammadu Buhari Senate Building of the Universi- Maiduguri, Professor Aliyu ty. Shugaba, has called on experts to T The Vice Chancellor, represented by the Director proffer solutions that will mitigate the problems Academic Planning, Professor Michael P. Noku, stat- and challenges of the North-East region in the ed that it is a welcome development that the meet- ongoing BIOPALT project of the Lake Chad Ba- ing is taking place at a critical time of the situation sin. in the North-East adding that is important to note He made the call while delivering a goodwill the support of the nation’s development partners - message at the opening of a meeting on the UNESCO and AfDB. theme “Sensitization, Planning and Consultation Professor Shugaba added that constituting the towards Development of Management Plan of Lake Chad as a Transboundary World Heritage the Proposed Lake Chad Transboundary World Site will without doubt expose the region to global Heritage Site” organized by UNESCO at the Cont’d on page 4 3 June, 2019 Vol. VII No. 6 NEWS Cont’d from page 3 attention with many socio-economic benefits. He stressed that University of Maiduguri is willing to earlier visited communities and informed them participate in whatever way that will propel the about the importance of the Lake Chad Basin region to a global stage of peace and prosperity. which she said is to be designated “World Herit- age Domain”. The Vice Chancellor then revealed that the Univer- sity has wide range of areas of specialization She noted that the meeting will comprise of stake- holders drawn from traditional rulers, farmers, fishermen, cattle herders, youth groups as well as members of houses of assembly and chairmen of Monguno, Ngala, Kukawa and Marte Local Gov- ernment Areas. Also speaking, Mr. Bale Bura of the National Focal Point, UNESCO BIOPALT Project, stated that the specific objectives of the meeting include synchro- nizing the standard universal value, identifying the Professor Michael P. Noku, representative of the Vice key issues of the nominated site, obtaining specific Chancellor, at the occasion data from the stakeholders, complementary to which UNESCO is free to tap from, adding that the those already documented, among others.