Jalingo – Gov. Darius Ishaku of Taraba on Tuesday said that he would upgrade the Taraba State University to the standard of a reputable institution in the country.
Ishaku said this in Jalingo on Tuesday when he received a report from the university’s visitation panel, set up to review the administrative structure and process of the institution.
According to him, the panel’s recommendation will be adopted and implemented to enhance academic activities in the university.
He said “my passion is to reinvigorate the institution; make it enviable and admirable by all and sundry.
“We will use the report of the panel to make this university to answer a good name as the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University (ABU).”
Ishaku stressed that the essence of the review was to reposition the institution, rather than a witch-hunt as being speculated in some quarters.
Ealier, the Chairman of the panel, Prof. Abbas Bashir, had told the governor that the review was a routine practice enshrined in the laws of
Federal, States and private universities in the country.
He listed the challenges of the institution to include the absence of academic planning division, the lack of research unit, the lack of dependable physical master plan and poor state of the library.