The Senate has passed a bill to establish a Federal University of Applied Sciences in Kachia, Kaduna State.
This followed the adoption of a report of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND on establishments of the university at plenary on Tuesday.
The report was presented by the Chairman, Senator Mohammed Muntari.
Muntari, in his presentation, said stakeholders at the public hearing on establishment of the Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia Kaduna state supported the passage of the bill.
He said the school would help provide scientific knowledge to the improvement and solution of environmental hazard and provide exposure to professional studies in technology.
“The hallmark of the proposed Federal University of Applied Sciences, is to produce graduates well equipped with practical and theoretical grounded knowledge in technology, applied science, commerce and management.
“This will reduce risks and challenges of productivity, data and information, cost benefits, marketing and security bedeviling humanity.
“The establishment of the Federal University will reduce the ills around the national economy and de-escalate chances of entrenching heinous criminal activities being perpetrated by men of the underworld.
“The knowledge and skills that would be acquired by the graduates from the envisaged Act of the National Assembly will definitely go a long way in expanding and deepening the horizon of the graduates in information management,” he said.
Similarly, he said the varsity will consequently improve national integration and general social progress of the multicultural, young people of this country with yearning and aspiration to acquire skills in information, economic and science management.
He urged the Senate to consider and approve the report for the benefit of humanity in general and Nigeria as a nation.
In the same vein, the Senate also at the plenary passed a bill to establish the Federal University of Technology Ilaro in Ogun State.
The passage followed the adoption of a report of the committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND
In his remarks, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio thanked the lawmakers for their contributions in ensuring passage of the bills.
He expressed that if the two bills are signed into law by President Bola Tinubu, the institutions would add to the country’s knowledge, increase in food production and also help the nation to move forward positively.
(NAN)
