Alumni Unveil Plan For UNIJOS

University of Jos Alumni Association (UJAA) has reiterated its determination to spouse with authorities astatine each levels, backstage individuals, and planetary institutions to reposition UNIJOS arsenic a hub of excellence and research, not conscionable successful Nigeria but crossed Africa and the satellite successful general.

The association’s planetary president, Dr. Gad Shamaki, made the disclosure successful an interrogation with LEADERSHIP successful Jos, the Plateau State capital, connected the institution’s 50th anniversary.

According to him, 50 years is not conscionable a number; it is simply a communicative of resilience, growth, triumphs, and trials, a imagination nurtured by men and women who believed successful the powerfulness of education.

He maintained that UNIJOS has produced leaders successful government, business, and politics, pioneers successful science, icons successful the arts, and countless men and women who person carried the values of the instauration into the wider world.

He called connected members to be and enactment successful the lecture, organised by the alumni successful collaboration with the Department of Sociology, connected “Violence and Insecurity successful Central Nigeria:
Nature, Causes, Policy Responses, and Remedies for Sustainable Peace and Development”

The Global president besides stated that, “As we bespeak connected this milestone , we indispensable beryllium deliberate connected the aboriginal of the institution. The adjacent 50 years of the University of Jos volition beryllium defined by what its alumni and friends take to bash today.”

Gad further argued that the assemblage is much than its classrooms, lecture halls, oregon building, but to them, the large minds the instauration has produced adding that the aboriginal of this large citadel of learning rests successful their hands.

“The alumni, are surviving testaments to what the University produced. But beyond celebrating what we person become, we indispensable springiness backmost to guarantee that aboriginal generations person greater opportunities. UNIJOS needs us, our voices, expertise, networks, and resources.”

According to him, arsenic an alumni, they indispensable put successful infrastructure and facilities to guarantee students and lecturers tin larn and thatch successful a safe, conducive situation and providing scholarships and endowments truthful that nary kid is denied the close to acquisition owed to fiscal challenges.

He called connected each and sundry to urgently enactment the absorption of UNIJOS to guarantee the operation of hostels and lecture halls, the equipping of laboratories, the awarding of scholarships, and the instauration of opportunities to payment generations yet unborn.