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Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria ISSN: 0345-0749 | VOL ABU News A Publication of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria ISSN: 0345-0749 | VOL. 5 No. 2 | SEPTEMBER 2018 / MUHARRAM 1440 From ABU to China The Story of 3+2 Joint Bachelor's Degree in Railway & Transportation Engineering 50th ARY ANNIVERS Political Science, Sociology Inaugural Lecture Departments clock 50 years Professor Ahuwan: In praise of hands Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Ahmadu Bello University shall be a world-class university comparable to any other, engaged in imparting contemporary knowledge, using high quality facilities and multi-disciplinary approaches, to men and women of all races, as well as generating new ideas and intellectual practices relevant to the needs of its immediate community, Nigeria and the world at large. To advance the frontiers of learning and break new grounds, through teaching, research and the dissemination of knowledge of the highest quality; to establish and foster national and international integration, development and the promotion of African traditions and cultures; to produce high-level human power and enhance capacity-building through retraining, in order to meet the needs and challenges of the catchment area, Nigeria and the rest of the world. ABU NEWS | SEPTEMBER 2018 2 PROLOGUE Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria here are moments when the frequency and magnitude of events can PRINCIPAL OFFICERS overwhelm the perceptions of many an onlooker so much that a lot of OF THE UNIVERSITY happenings may go unnoticed and, therefore, undocumented. This is T Professor Ibrahim Garba exactly the kind of situation we have found ourselves in the University from Vice-Chancellor the last edition of ABU News till date. Many activities took place in fast and spiral manner that translated into a bountiful yield by the Vice-Chancellor's Professor Kabir Bala untiring commitments to connect the University with industry and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration collaborate with high-profile institutions across the globe. Not just for visibility sake; but also for the purpose of testing and showcasing the ABU Professor Ezra Bako Amans brand of academics and students as well. This is summarized by our cover Deputy Vice-Chancellor, story on the unprecedented joint degree in railway and transportation Academics engineering programme. Dubbed 3+2 (three years in ABU plus two years in Abdullahi Ahmed Kundila Central South University, Changsha), the programme has not been free of Registrar the seemingly obvious positive and negative accompaniments of Mal. Yahaya Alhaji Hassan everything ABU! The story tells how and why ABU engineering Bursar programme satisfied the fastidious Chinese standard for the intellectual engagement; it answers the who is who components of the students that Professor Umar Ibrahim qualified after the Chinese university rigorous selection exercise - and there University Librarian are related issues that give our cover story its status. A steady outing by the combination of ABU students that represented Nigeria last year at the global ABU News is edited and published ENACTUS competition has enacted the ABU passionate brand again! They by the Public Affairs Directorate, Office of the Vice Chancellor, qualified, once more, to represent the country on a world stage at the Silicon Ground Floor, Senate Building, Valley, United States. Consequent upon these two major stories, a barrage of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria endorsements followed: the PTDF accepts the ABU Chinese class as a Email: [email protected] [email protected] model for prospective students it would henceforth sponsor to China, well- [email protected] wishers, particularly Alumni, including the SGF Boss Mustapha and corporate organisations made huge contributions to facilitate the ABU Printed by: Ahmadu Bello University Press Ltd., Team trip to Silicon Valley. These, plus inaugural lectures and a couple of P.M.B. 1094, Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria. Tel: 08065949711 departmental golden jubilee ceremonial conferences constitute the pages of Website: www.abupress.org this edition of ABU News. Happy reading! email: [email protected] CARTOON ABU NEWS | SEPTEMBER 2018 3 COVER Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Story of 3+2 Joint Bachelor's Degree in Railway and Transportation Engineering Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibrahim Garba (centre) in a group photograph with the 45 students now in China Continued from page 4 It all started in 2017 when ABU was picked out of seven Nigerian universities to begin as a pilot joint degree programme dubbed ‘3+2’ in railway and transportation engineering with China Central South E n g i n e e r i n g C o n s t r u c t i o n Bello University, Zaria as well as engineering in the university system in Nigeria; and it has evolved to University (CSU), Changsha, where China's railway technology was invented. The essence is to Corporation (CCECC) and China joint business ventures, including Ambassador to Nigeria Zhon Ping commercial development of reach a level where there are so produce sufficient indigenous engineers who will continue to build and sustain railway infrastructure Jian all in Abuja last July, to express many programmes because of the in Nigeria and beyond, as captured in this report. properties on ABU land, and deep gratitude for their support in collaborative research project to demand in the industry. facilitating and sponsoring this all And in this regard, Civil ll the 45 300-Level students (CCECC) and the other 15 are by two institutions, 300-Level students support CCECC construction important and milestone project. activities in Nigeria. Engineering came to light, as of Ahmadu Bello University CSU. from ABU with CGPA of not below A t C C E C C , t h e Vi c e - CCECC is building Nigeria's f l o w n t o C h i n a i n Of the 45 students, 30 are from the range of second class upper after On its part to strengthen the A Chancellor was particularly cooperation, ABU was to design a railway infrastructure, following September this year for the joint Department of Civil Engineering a selection interview will be given appreciative of the support of the the collapse in the last 50 years of Bachelor's degree programmes in and 15 from Department of admission to go to CSU to complete degree programme in railway mega international construction engineering and other related Nigerian railway. The company, out engineering at Central South Mechanical Engineering. They are the remaining two years to earn the of its own thinking, contacted the University (CSU), Changsha have firm for facilitation of the joint courses and initiate a process to expected to specialize in railway e n g i n e e r i n g d e g r e e . T h e degree programme in railway Federal Ministry of Works and already settled and are currently engineering and other related programme is to last for a period of establish a school of transportation Transport and advised that it is good pursuing their studies as scheduled. engineering and other related out of the Faculty of Engineering in courses in Central South University, five consecutive years, 3 in ABU, 2 courses, renovation of Chinese for Nigeria to start to grow its own Similarly, 13 academic staff especially in civil engineering, in CSU. the next academic session. railway and transport engineers. from Faculty of Engineering, who Language laboratory, construction It was also to begin intensive t r a ff i c a n d t r a n s p o r t a t i o n ABU’s collaboration with of Chinese Garden, and plan for the left along with the students for engineering as well as railway China Central South University, to Chinese language training program CCECC's Profile various doctoral programmes at the establishment of African Institute in for 45 scholarship beneficiaries for C h i n a C i v i l E n g i n e e r i n g equipment and control engineering. run the joint Bachelor's degree Nigeria. Chinese university, have also begun programme in engineering was the joint degree and commencement C o n s t r u c t i o n C o r p o r a t i o n studies. Of the 45 students, 30 are Professor Garba went further to of the Chinese language programme (CCECC) is an offshoot of China MoU on the programme blown open when the Vice- solicit CCECC's cooperation sponsored for the programmes by Those to qualify for the program, Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim in Ahmadu Bello University to Railway Construction (CRCC), one towards establishment of a transport C h i n a C i v i l E n g i n e e r i n g according to a memorandum of Garba, visited the corporate prepare ABU graduates for of the most powerful and largest C o n s t r u c t i o n C o r p o r a t i o n understanding (MoU) signed by the headquarters of China Civil school and strengthening of employment market. integrated construction groups engineering programs in Ahmadu ABU has the oldest school of worldwide. Continued on page 5 Continued on page 6 4 ABU NEWS | SEPTEMBER 2018 5 COVER Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Continued from page 5 Story of 3+2 Joint Bachelor's Degree in Railway and Transportation Engineering As one of China's pioneering South University, Changsha, Nigeria, the institution is one of the companies to perform international China started in 1903 from one greatest universities in the sub- c o n t r a c t i n g a n d e c o n o m i c thousand years old Yuelu Saharan Africa. cooperation, CCECC has evolved Academy. At present, the university has 13 from the earlier Foreign Aid ?Medical programs began in 1906 faculties, 12 specialized institutes Department of the Ministry of from Yale-in-China a n d c e n t e r s , a s c h o o l o f Railway of China into a large-scale ?Powder Metallurgy, first postgraduate studies and 98 state-owned enterprise with established by Professor Huang academic departments.
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