Benue Assembly renames state varsity, amends law
File: Benue House of Assembly
* Lengthy words in the name caused new renaming.
The Benue State House of Assembly made correction to the law that renamed Benue State University, Makurdi, as Rev. Fr Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi.
With the reamendment, the university would now be known as Father Adasu University, Makurdi, instead of Rev. Fr Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi.
The latest amendment followed the debate on the report of the House Standing Committee on Higher Education during plenary in Makurdi on Thursday.
In a lead debate, the Majority Leader, Mr Saater Tiseer (APC/Mbagwa), said that the name Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi, was too long.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the initial name of the university was Benue State University, Makurdi, before it was changed to Rev. Fr Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi, in December 2024.
The House also passed the bills for laws to amend the College of Education, Katsina-Ala, and the College of Education, Oju, to become degree-awarding institutions.
The Speaker, Mr Alfred Emberga, who presided over the sitting, called on the Clerk of the House, Dr Bem Mela, to read the bills the third time.
Emberga thereafter said that, having been read for the third time, they were passed.
The university was renamed in December 2024 after Governor Hyacinth Alia announced the change during the institution’s combined convocation.
Alia had said the move was to honour the late Adasu, who established the state-owned institution.
Alia said, “As a way of honouring the founder of this institution, our administration has sent an executive bill to the state assembly for this University to be named after the founder, Rev Fr Moses Adasu.”
NAN
