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This is to notify all candidates who have successfully secured admission into the University that the portal of the University is now active for commencement of payment for registration fees.

All candidates are to visit www.fuaz.edu.ng for online payment of their registration fees.

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Abdulaziz Yusuf Bazata

Registrar

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The Director-General, National  Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, CCIE has challenged Universities in the country to devote greater attention to enterpreneurship training in order to produce graduates that will create job opportunities, not job seekers.

Inuwa made the challenge while receiving the management of the Federal University of Agriculture Zuru, Kebbi State, under the leadership of its Vice-Chancellor Professor, Musa Isyaku Ahmed.

The NITDA boss described University’s role in finding lasting solution to  Nigeria’s unemployment as critical, in view of the large number of young people graduating annually.

“I urge you to continue to emphasize more on enterpreneurship trainings so that graduates can become job creators instead of job seekers.

“Mr President has the passion for job creation, a passion of diversifying our economy and so on, moving from resource based economy to knowledge based or Digital Economy, and for Nigeria to achieve that, we need to have the human capital, which our population is the greatest resources,” he added.

He said most of the people coming out from the universities are becoming liability to the country, because they will come and start waiting for jobs. Instead, why not us start producing people that will create jobs, and to do that you have to start from the universities.

“Universities can be used as mentoring, training and couching grounds to the students, encouraging them to start their own business while in school,” he said.

Commenting on NITDA’s National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture (NAVSA) programme, Inuwa stated that it was an initiative of the Agency designed to support young Nigerian farmers that are very passionate about making a career in farming.

“Firstly, we all need to eat to survive, how can we increase our produce, how can we use technology to change the way we do our farming, and how can we make it a more fancy job, so that these young graduates can also embrace farming as a career,” he noted.

NITDA, he said, has concluded arrangements to engaging Universities’ research works practically on the farms with a view to achieving the set goal.

“This year, we will re-strategise our process and say why not work with Universities’ research institutions, where most of their works end on the shelves, why can’t we convert those researches and move into the farm to experiment”, added.

Earlier, Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture Zuru, Professor Musa Isyaku Ahmed, said they were at the Agency’s Corporate Headquarters on a familiarisation visit to further avail themselves with what they have been seeing and hearing about NITDA’s impactful interventions on so many sectors, particularly the tertiary institutions.

Professor Musa who informed that, Federal University of Agriculture Zuru is the only University that came into being from a Bill by the National Assembly, and was assented to by the President as the Agric based, which came on board during the lockdown as a result of COVID-19 Pandemic.

He said the newly established institution has as its mandate, the injection of Enterpreneurship and IT into its curriculum.

While soliciting for the collaborative support of NITDA in its intervention programmes, the Prof also called for paradigm shift in the nation’s education system.

“We are aware of NITDA’s finger prints in many Nigerian tertiary institutions, we here soliciting for same to our newly established Institution,” he pleaded.

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FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE ZURU

PMB 28, KEBBI STATE, NIGERIA

OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR

YEAR 2022 TERTIARY EDUCATION TRUST FUND CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE INTERVENTION

This is to notify you that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved the allocation and Utilisation of the Year 2022 Conference/workshop Intervention funds to the University. Premised on the above, interested, and eligible staff are hereby invited to forward request to attend relevant academic and professional Conferences/workshops in line with the following extant guidelines:

A. The Conference

1. For any conference to be qualified for the participation of any Nigerian Teaching Staff under the TETFund conference attendance intervention;

i. It must be an Academic conference organized by Academic institutions, learned society, and/or recognized and reputable professional bodies. Predatory conferences being organized by third party Predatory Conference Organizers (PCOS) must not be recommended to the Fund;

ii. The registration fee for the conference must not exceed N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) for conferences in Nigeria, and $500 (Five hundred US dollars) for conferences abroad;

iii. The duration of the conference must not exceed five (5) days.

2. Non-Teaching Staff can equally attend Workshops/Conferences for a period not exceeding 5 days.

3. Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff of beneficiary Institutions could attend group conferences or workshops as the case may be subject to the following:

i. Only a maximum of 7 (Seven) Teaching Staff of a department could attend a group conference (and not workshop) within a given intervention year.

ii. Non-Teaching Staff could attend group workshops organized by recognized Public Institutions.

B. Eligibility

To be eligible for sponsorship under the TETFund conference attendance intervention, a person;

i. Must be a Nigerian full-time Staff of a beneficiary Institution;

ii. Must apply to attend and participate in an Academic conference organized by Academic Institutions, learned society (regional, national or international one), and/or recognized professional bodies;

iii. Must have a paper accepted for presentation at the conference to be attended;

iv. Staff previously sponsored by the Fund to attend and present paper at any conference must present evidence of attendance and presentation (certificate of attendance, conference proceedings etc) before qualifying to be sponsored to attend another conference with TETFund support;

v. Any Staff that was previously sponsored by the Fund to attend and present a paper at an international conference must present evidence of publishing at least one (1) article in any first quartile journal or two (2) articles in any second quartile journals before qualifying to be sponsored to attend another international conference;

vi. Staff of beneficiary Institutions can only be sponsored to attend and present paper at an international conference once every two (2) years;

vii. Principal Officers of beneficiary Institutions can be recommended to attend local or international conference once in three (3) years. All subsisting requirements under these guidelines apply;

vill. Submission for Conference attendance should indicate the present status and salary scale of attendees.

In view of the foregoing, staff are hereby requested to forward their submissions/requests to the Registrar for conference attendance within two (2) weeks from the date of this circular for onward submission to TETFund. All applications are to be submitted to Usman Mohammed, contact phone number: 08032949575 than 1st November, 2022.

Applicants should download the Nomination Form on FUAZ website: Fuaz.edu.ng

Staff are also advised to select conference/workshop that will take place not earlier

Thank you.

Abdulaziz Yusuf Bazata

Registrar

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