ABU to establish a center for cancer studies – VC

The Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Prof Kabir Bala, has disclosed that plans are afoot by the institution to establish a center of excellence for cancer studies.

Prof Bala made the disclosure when he and his entourage visited the Executive Secretary of TETFUND, Prof Suleiman Elias Bagoro, in his office in Abuja.

In his remarks, the TETFUND Executive Secretary thanked the vice chancellor for his visit and pledged to assist the University in actualizing this noble project.

The visit was part of his efforts in seeking collaboration and consciously cultivating the goodwill and support of ABU stakeholders for his new administration.

Recall that TETFund Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, has recently assured the Professor Kabiru Bala-led Management of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, that TETFund will help the University complete it’s 8-year old abandoned Iconic 1000 Seat Capacity Multipurpose Hall at the Institution’s Samaru Main Campus.

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Professor Bogoro made the promise during an earlier working visit to his Alma Mata, where he expressed serious disappointment over the Contractor’s inability to complete the project, Eight years after it was awarded.

“I will make sure that by God’s grace the project is completed and becomes fully operational before January 2021”, Professor Bogoro said.

Professor Bogoro who said he was very impressed with the initial concept and design of the Multipurpose Hall, assured the University Management that TETFund will step in to ensure the maintenance of the quality of work at the site, speedy completion and take-off of the edifice which if successfully completed, will be the first of its kind in the country.

Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro himself a distinguished Abusite was disappointed as the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in January 2019 to replace Dr. Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, who took over from him two years earlier.

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