The University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) has will soon begin offering Railway Engineering as an academic programme in the Faculty of Engineering.
The Dean of Student Affairs, Dr Abubakar Umar Kari, disclosed this while speaking the PR Nigeria at the university’s main campus in Abuja.
Dr. Kari said the Univeristy’s Vice Chancellor Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah has attracted foreign government’s intervention in the area of infrastructural and curricular development to UNIABUJA, among other enviable accomplishments, only less than six months after taking over the helms of affairs.
While noting that the UNIABUJA will be the first Nigerian university to offer such a specialized branch of study, he said some academic staff have already been trained on railway engineering in China, courtesy of the Chinese Shanghai University and the Chinese Government’s foreign and technical aids.
“It will interest you to note that the Chinese Government-sponsored railway engineering has already taken off. Seven of our eminent engineering lecturers and scholars were selected for a capacity-building programme in China.
“While three of them are through with the programme, and have since returned to the country, the other four are still in China. And after the completion of their study, they will join their colleagues here, to help standardized the newly-floated department,” he noted.
Dr Kari also disclosed that “At the moment, twelve brand new workshops are been constructed at the Engineering Faculty in the university Main Campus. This is geared towards ensuring that facilities are provided for the programme’s smooth take-off.
“Also, the equipment to be used for teaching and practical sessions by lecturers and students of the new engineering department, presently have been imported, and are just waiting to be cleared at the port before been transported to the university.”
