NUC grants Enugu license to establish State University of Medical and Applied Sciences
(Nigeria) The National Universities Commission, NUC, has granted license to Enugu State Government recognising establishment of the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences, SUMAS, Igbo-Eno, Enugu State.
The license issued to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu
State, at NUC headquarters, Abuja, on Thursday, was sequel to the enactment of
the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS), Law, Igbo-Eno,
Enugu State, on April 13, 2022.
Presenting the license, the Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof.
Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, congratulated Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the people of the state
“on the establishment of the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences
to be located in Igbo-Eno of Enugu State”.
The Law establishing SUMAS was presented to NUC by Enugu
State government alongside the Academic brief and Master Plan of the new
University.
The License recognized SUMAS as the second Enugu State owned
University.
With the final stage of granting the license, Enugu State
will now have a brand new, full-fledged, State-owned University of Medical and
Applied Sciences (SUMAS), Igbo-Eno, Enugu State.
SUMAS, Igbo-Eno has become the 59th State University in
Nigeria. Enugu State with two State-owned Universities has now joined the
league of states with more than one state University.
Reacting, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Government House,
Enugu, Prof. Malachy Okwueze, who witnessed the presentation of the license to
Gov. Ugwuanyi at the NUC headquarters, Abuja, said: "We can't thank the
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State enough for achieving this goal of
providing the platform for increased access to quality university education for
our teeming youths who struggle year after year to gain admission into the
university without fulfilling their desires and
dreams for university education".
According to him "This is especially so for
professional courses such as medicine. The existing Enugu State University of
Science and Technology, ESUT, get over 2, 000 applications from our youths to
study medicine but only a paltry 50
applicants (candidates) are offered access to study medicine at the
end.
"Even the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, the
Federal University in Enugu State, offers only about 180 candidates admission
into medicine leaving the dreams of thousands of our youths to study the course
dashed year after year.
"This is despite the deficit in the number of medical
doctors and nurses required to optimize medical and healthcare for our
people".
Expressing the joy of the people of Enugu State over the
feat recorded by Gov. Ugwuanyi’s administration, Prof. Okwueze disclosed that
the state government has made provision for sustainable funding of the new
University.
He added that "the stage is getting set for the handover and the official commissioning of the flyover bridge at the popular T-Junction, Nike Lake Road, Enugu, where traffic gridlock became every road user's nightmare before His Excellency intervened with a befitting flyover bridge delivered in record time to ease all worries on the road".
Comments
Post a Comment