ABU Zaria
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University of Northern Nigeria |
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| Type | Public, research |
| Established | October 4, 1962 |
| Chancellor | Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, Obi of Onitsha. |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Ibrahim Garba |
| Location | Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colours | Green |
| Nickname | ABU |
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Association of African Universities (AAU) |
| Website | www |
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| Established | 1960s |
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| President | Ahmed Tijani Mora |
| Location | Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria |
| Colors | Orange and Blue |
| Affiliations | Ahmadu Bello University |
| Website | Official website |
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Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a federal government research university in Zaria, Kaduna State. ABU was founded on October 4, 1962, as the University of Northern Nigeria.
The university operates two campuses: Samaru (main) and Kongo in Zaria. There is pre-degree school in Funtua a few kilometres from main campus owned by the university. The Samaru campus houses the administrative offices and the faculties of physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, arts and languages, education, environmental design, engineering, medical sciences, agricultural sciences and research facilities. The Kongo campus hosts the faculties of Law and Administration. The Faculty of Administration consists of Accounting, Business Administration, Local Government and Development Studies and Public Administration Departments. Additionally, the university is responsible for other institutions and programs at other locations.
It is named after the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the first premier of Northern Nigeria.
The university runs a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programs (and offers associate degrees and vocational and remedial programs). It has a large medical program with its own A.B.U. Teaching Hospital, one of the largest teaching hospitals in Nigeria and Africa.
As Nigeria approached independence on October 1, 1960, it had only a single university: the University of Ibadan, established in 1948. The important Ashby Commission report (submitted a month before independence) recommended adding new universities in each of Nigeria's then-three regions and the capital, Lagos. Even before the report, however, the regional governments had begun planning universities. In May 1960, the Northern Region had upgraded the School of Arabic Studies in Kano to become the Ahmadu Bello College for Arabic and Islamic Studies. (The college was named after the region's dominant political leader, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello.)
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