My Mandate Is To Restore The Academic Excellence Of Adamawa University – New VC

Tom Garba

The new Vice chancellor of  Adamawa State university (ADSU) ,Dr Moses Zaruwa said he was given a mandate from the ministry of Higher Education to restore back the credibility and Excellence of Adamawa state university.

During his first Management meeting in the institution Moses told them that his cardinal vision is to make sure he claim back the lost glory of ADSU which was bastardized by insurgents attacks.

He added that, is with a mission to reconcile all warring factions within the academic system as he has already constituted a committee of reconciliation that will reconcile all those that felt aggrieved and hurt over the internal crisis that rocked the institution.

“I am here to make sure peace is restored, I am not here to witch hunt anybody as a matter of fact I am not here to settle scores with my colleagues”. He said

Dr Zaruwa who is serving as the Vice Chancellor on acting capacity for two times lament how the institution has sudden degraded down in terms of academics performance from what it use be.

According to him ADSU some years back is among the best universities in the country but because of insurgents activities the school has not been in session for complete academic calendar. This contributed for  the school to later have myriads internal problems that lead to even strikes.

The acting Vice chancellor who is pharmacologist reiterated that his tenure will be characterise with creation of new Faculties that will address the issues of unemployment in the state, to fast track in building of Faculty of Medicine and law that has been in the pipe line of the school academic plan.

Moses continue to say that a good arrangement has been in place with the Chinese embassy to introduce Chinese language as a course that will further help in learning much about Chinese herbal medicine, the course will help in harnessing the rich potentials the state has in alternative medicine. Recalled that the former Vice Chancellor was sacked recently.