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Daily Rendezvous  The Vice Chancellor of Federal University, Kashere, Prof. Umar Pate has praised the resilience of the Nigerian university system as the best performing sector of all time compared to other sectors in the country, that have crumbled under the heavy weight of lack of investment and development in the country. Pate said, most of Nigeria's universities have long outgrown their carrying capacity yet they have continued to maintain standard and produce quality graduates that compete globally in various fields of endeavour. Umar Pate made this known while delivering the keynote lecture at the 20th anniversary of the Adamawa State University in Mubi, Adamawa State. Pate said, there are over 2.1 million Nigerian students, spread across over 150 universities in the country, struggling to gain world class education with inadequate facilities, yet education continues to thrive reasonable well against the decades of little investment and commitment to development o...

Daily Rendezvous The Adamawa state university, has fixed 2nd of February, 2021 as the tentative date for school resumption. The date was scheduled following an emergency Senate meeting held 14 January, 2021. This is contained in a press statement issued by the university information and protocol officer, Belmond Benson, and made available to newsmen, Thursday, in Yola, Adamawa state.   The statement reads, "The Adamawa State University Senate has approved Tuesday, 2nd February, 2021 as the tentative date for reopening of the Institution for resumption of Academic activities.    "The date was approved by the Senate at an emergency meeting held today 14th January, 2021."   The statement adds that, "It should be noted that all non-pharmaceutical COVID-19 protocols would be strictly observed everywhere on campus and every student must undertake to abide by all the COVID-19 protocols both within and outside the campus.    "Students are ex...