Governor set o rename varsity after EX-Gov
Benue State Government is set to rename the State University, Makurdi after a former governor of the state, the late Rev Fr Moses Adasu.
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, announced this on Saturday during the institution’s combined convocation ceremony held on the campus.
Alia who is a visitor to the university said his administration had already forwarded an executive bill to the State House of Assembly for the renaming of the university as Reverend Father Moses Adasu University.
Adasu, also a Catholic priest established the university when he was a governor of the state between 1991 and 1992.
Governor Alia said, “As a way of honouring the founder of this institution, our administration has sent an executive bill to the state assembly for this University to be named after the founder, Rev Fr Moses Adasu.
The governor further announced that the university would establish a satellite campus at Adikpo in Kwande Local Government Area to ensure people from Benue North East senatorial district have access to university education.
He also proclaimed the donation of 500 computers to the university computer-based test centre and also a 100 per cent master’s degree scholarship to all the graduating students who came up with first-class degrees.
He charged them to be good ambassadors of the institution and the state by upholding the values of integrity and hard work, arguing that success was not about personal development but also positive impact on the society.
