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How Maryam Abacha Varsity Produced 5 Provosts of Nursing Colleges, 1,000 Lab Scientists, 100 Lawyers, Others in 12 Years

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"Q6QXdMz7" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Twelve years after its establishment&comma; the Maryam Abacha American University of Niger &lpar;MAAUN&rpar;&comma; in Maradi&comma; Niger Republic&comma; has produced five Provosts of Nursing Colleges in Borno&comma; Yobe&comma; and Bauchi States&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"pgSW8eTc" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Dr&period; Hadiza Sabo a graduate of Nursing from the University is the current Provost of Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery&comma; in Damaturu&comma; Yobe state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2024&sol;05&sol;31&sol;varsity-appoints-gombe-emir-as-chancellor&sol;">Varsity Appoints Gombe Emir As Chancellor<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Equally&comma; Dr&period; Hadiza Yahya is serving as Provost&comma; College of Nursing Sciences in Maiduguri&comma; Borno state&comma; while Dr&period; Rakiya Saleh is the Provost College of Nursing Sciences in Bauchi&comma; Bauchi state&period; The trio of Rakiya and the two aforementioned Hadizas all bagged their first and postgraduate degrees from MAAUN&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"dOjFghZi" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; Kiloh Nifor who is also the Provost&comma; College of Nursing Sciences in Jalingo&comma; Taraba state&comma; and Dr&period; Yusuf Bello&comma; the Provost&comma; Kaduna State College of Nursing Sciences&comma; are also alumni of the university&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>MAAUN&comma; which was founded in 2013&comma; is owned by Professor Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo&comma; a philanthropist and French Linguistics scholar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Politics Digest also reports that the Faculty of Law of the premier Ivory Tower&comma; established only in 2015&comma; has produced over 400 law graduates&comma; with more than a hundred of them already called to the Nigerian Bar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; over 1&comma;000 Medical Laboratory Scientists produced by MAAUN are presently working in Nigeria&comma; while no fewer than 700 of them are practicing abroad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It would be recalled that the institution was the first to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing in Niger Republic&comma; where thousands of nursing officers trooped for their university education from different countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The Nursing Degree programme greatly increased the number of nursing graduates in Nigeria&period; The university started offering Nursing in 2012 and has so far graduated over 2&comma;000 graduates who are rendering their services at different hospitals in Nigeria and abroad&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said the university&&num;8217&semi;s President&comma; Prof&period; Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Barrister Umar Isa Sulaiman&comma; a law lecturer at MAAUN&comma; while informing Politics Digest that their Faculty commenced academic activities in 2013&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Our graduates are working in different government agencies and parastatals&period; Some are Sharia Court Judges&comma; Magistrates&comma; and some are working in the Supreme Court of Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Also&comma; a high number of our graduates are in private practice&period; We do meet and appear before different courts&period; I can categorically tell you that they are doing wonderfully well as advocates&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; the Prof&period; Adamu Gwarzo-owned university has been positively impacting the lives of several Nigerians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A MAAUN graduate of Nursing&comma; Hamisu Iliyasu&comma; who hailed from Sokoto State&comma; told this newspaper how his alma mater produced many Directors and Heads of Nursing Colleges in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;You know universities in the North don&&num;8217&semi;t offer Nursing&semi; you either go to the South or you end up retiring at Level 14 as a civil servant&period; But our prestigious Maryam Abacha American University came to the rescue of so many of us&comma; and we are grateful&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Dr&period; Kabiru Mahmud&comma; a staff member of the Medical Laboratory Sciences Department of MAAUN&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Our great and pace-setting university has helped increase the number of Medical Laboratory Scientists&comma; not only in Northern Nigeria but in the country at large&period; We have students from across the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Some came from Lagos&comma; Benin&comma; and Ibadan&period; I can categorically tell you that Maryam Abacha American University of Niger has the highest number of young Medical Laboratory Scientists in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Before now&comma; one could hardly find someone with a degree in this field&comma; but only a Diploma&period; But MAAUN came and provided the opportunity to many undergraduates&period; Go to Federal Medical Centres across the country&comma; and you will find it difficult counting the number of their staff who are our products&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Checks by this newspaper further revealed that some MAAUN alumni are presently working at the National Hospital in Abuja and the Mallam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital&comma; AKTH&comma; in Kano state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The university according to findings has the highest number of Nurses working in Canada&comma; USA and other foreign countries from West Africa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; 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