The proposed Federal University of Transportation in Daura, Katsina state will serve as a training institution for the development of transportation engineering, logistics and courses that will support post-modern transportation industry in Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the bill to establish the tertiary body on the 30th of March having received it from the national assembly on March 1st 2023.
A document from the office of the Minister of Transportation revealed that the Act establishing the university provides the legislative framework to explore in-depth and continuous cutting-edge research in transportation engineering.
It will also focus on logistics and other courses of interest that will support the transportation industry and offer diverse courses in its core area of interest leading to the award of first degrees, postgraduate degrees, diploma and other professional certificates.
The transportation University Daura would, among other things, pave the way for the domestication of railway engineering and general transportation sciences in Nigeria, thereby bridging the technology and skill gap in the railway and ultimately the transportation sector, the document noted.
The transport ministry told journalists that a copy of the document was recently presented to the Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo by a former member representing Daura/Maidua/Sandamu Federal Constituency, Prof. Umar Adam Katsayal, who doubles as the consultant on the establishment of the university as well as the Chairman Interim Management Committee of the institution alongside the Chairman CCECC Nigeria Limited, Mr Jason Zhang.
The Chinese firm CCECC had disclosed it is constructing the university as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at no cost to the federal in President Buhari’s home town.
