The House of Representatives has pledged to appropriate more funds for the Army University Biu, located in Borno state.
The Chairman of the Committee on Army, Rep. Abdulrazak Namdas told VANGUARD on Tuesday that the committee would push for adequate funding of the institution in order to produce highly skilled security manpower, to tackle the menace of insecurity in the nation.
“Going by the importance of that university in wiping out security challenges in the country in a short and long run, we are working hard, to ensure adequate funding for it; though it was established before the Act, came to legally establish it, it is still at its foundational stage and needs enough funding to be full-fledged.”
According to him, besides intelligence and core security courses, the university is also equipped to offer courses outside its main scope of security.
A bill for the establishment of the University titled: “An Act to establish the Nigerian Army University, Biu as a conventional university with selected programmes, limited and focused faculties to promote scholarship, research and other means of advancement of knowledge and its practical application to military hardware and software, and provide an opportunity of acquiring a higher and liberal education in Nigeria”, was passed and signed into law last year, by President Muhammadu Buhari.
