The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved eight undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano State.
The Head of Information and Public Relations Unit in the university, Mr Abdullahi Abba-Hassan, made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Kano.
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“That is contained in the approval letter dated March 15, 2022, addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the university and signed by the Director of Academic Planning of the NUC, Dr. N. B. Saliu for Executive Secretary.
“According to the letter, the Executive Secretary considered and approved the establishment of the full-time mode of the programmes,” the letter said
The letter said that the postgraduate programmes included M.Sc. Accounting, Masters in Accounting and Finance (MAF) and Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting and Finance (PGD).
It added that the undergraduate courses were B.Sc. Taxation, B.Sc. Industrial Chemistry, B.Sc. Cyber Security, B.Sc. Software Engineering and B.Sc. Industrial Mathematics.
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Abba-Hassan quoted the NUC Director Academic Planning as saying in the letter that, “The programmes are to be run in the Main Campus of the University with effect from the 2021/2022 academic session.
“The approval does not cover the part-time mode of delivery of the undergraduate programmes.
“All programmes shall bear only the approved titles and nomenclatures and any change will require the approval of the Commission,” the letter said.
It enjoined the University to provide adequate human and material resources for the development and growth of the approved programmes.
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In another development, the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Mukhtar Atiku-Kurawa has inaugurated committee for establishment of Faculty of Law.
The university appointed Prof. Aminu Kabir of Bayero University, Kano, as Chairman of the Committee.
