On Monday, Dr. Bisayo Odetoyinbo will lead discussions on: “Assessment of Health Services Provision in Adamawa State,” while Prof. Ogoh Alubo and Dr. Anande Hunduh will lead on Tuesday on: “The Political Economy Analysis of Health Systems Funding in Adamawa State.”
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It is hoped that Ms. Colbert’s extensive experience in this field can further strengthen AUN’s teaching and learning programs and show how they can best benefit Nigeria’s impoverished communities and their underserved children
Highly critical of the proposed budget of the outgoing administration, he noted the pressing need for more capital expenditure in Nigeria and the lack of funds in the current budget to achieve these ends. He likened this to a parent who earns and spends all his income on frivolities only to borrow to pay children’s fees
The President of AUN, Margee Ensign, announcing the proposed talk in Yola, described it as “a wonderful opportunity to have some input on new policies and programmes”
In announcing the selection of Colbert, the AUN President, Margee Ensign, said: “We are all so happy that an educator as internationally known and distinguished has found the time to visit us. As Africa’s first ‘development university’, we are anxious to hear of her wonderful experiences in the developing world, where her work has brought education and hope to so many millions of children across the globe
Membership in UNAI will enable this Nigerian university to more easily share its knowledge, its research, its expertise, and its programs with other universities throughout the world
The approval followed upon the acceptance by NUC’s Management Committee of the Resource Evaluation reports turned in by a panel of experts which visited the University earlier in the year and attested to the institution’s preparedness to run these graduate programmes
The situation in Adamawa State is direr still. Research carried out by AUN’s “Students Empowered Through Language Literacy and Arithmetic” project indicated that most school children in the state were unable to read or write in English, while they recorded even poorer accomplishments in math
Boniface Sukat, the President of the AUN Community Cooperative Society, gave this advice during a tour of the Karewa Children’s Home, an orphanage for abandoned infants, and Remi Educational Foundation, a school for children with special needs
Reacting to the accreditation, an elated President Margee Ensign said: “I am pleased to announce that AUN, only ten years old, has received approval to run its first PhD programme
Speaking over the weekend at the grand finale of the Ninth Founder’s Day celebration of the decade old citadel for Africa development at the Lamido Aliyu Musdafa Commencement Hall of AUN in Yola, Adamawa State, the former Vice President and All Progressives Congress presidential hopeful, told the assembly of global eggheads and other guests in the university’s ultra modern auditorium “private education is not, should not and cannot be a substitute for proper government-financed public education
The Mission Director of the US Agency for International Development in Nigeria, Michael T. Harvey, gave the pledge during a tour of IDPs camps and assessment visits to community-based organizations sheltering the estimated 400,000 refugees who fled insurgency attacks in the northern parts of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states, to Yola
A tradition of American Universities, Founder’s Day at AUN is a time for the university community to celebrate and reflect on the dream, vision, and generosity of its Founder and former Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as well as in its mission as a Development University
A statement by the University’s President, Prof. Margee Ensign, on Thursday said the University is sticking with its scheduled academic timetable and other activities
President Margee Ensign, who led the AUN team, announced that the University was mobilising 40 volunteers from among its faculty and schools to teach and offer ICT training in the IDP camps
Two researchers from the American University of Nigeria, Yola, have advocated a community-driven development model that actively engages rural farmers to foster sustainable agricultural development as a prerequisite to drastic reduction of the nation’s poverty crisis.
This year, there were more than 4,000 applications from which the AUN team emerged among the best 400 and were offered a place to compete.
“Part of what qualified us, said AUN President Margee Ensign, “is our university’s development mission and commitment to fostering development in our region and the continent, together with the students’ strong, longstanding record of academic excellence and community engagement. We were actually the only Nigerian university to qualify for the competition
His reputation, in-depth knowledge of Nigeria and commitment to AUN has been and will continue to be of enormous benefit to the University
The ceremony, which lasted for four days, had a line-up of organized eventful activities ranging from Honors of Society Dinner, to Class of 2013 night party dinner, tour of ACIT, Abti Printing Press, Senior Awards Ceremony and Conferral of Honorary Degrees on distinguished members of the society.
Hunter-Gault also received the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, the American Women in Radio and Television award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, and a 2004 National Association of Black Journalists Award for her CNN series on Zimbabwe. She has also received awards from Amnesty International for her human rights reporting