The Bauchi State Executive Council has approved the renaming of State University Gadau to Sa’adu Zungur University.
The state Commissioner of Education Dr. Aliyu Tilde made this known while address journalists after the state executive council meeting presided over by Governor Bala Muhammad.
Dr. Aliyu Tilde explained that the University is to be named after the late Sa’adu Zungur in recognition of his meritorious services not only to the state but the country as a whole.
According to him, the state ministry of education will officially communicate to the National Universities Commission on the development for other necessary actions
Also Speaking the Commissioner of works and Transportation Abdulkadir Ibrahim said the council has ratified the memorandum for the dualization of some roads in the state capital
Our Government House Correspondent Isiyaka Ismail Wunti reports that the council has also approved the privatization of about twenty state owned companies.
Details in our subsequent bulletin