Federal University of Lokoja : FULOKOJA

Federal University of Lokoja : FULOKOJA at a glance

Federal University Lokoja, known as FUL, was established on 16 February 2011 along with eight other new federal universities following a pronouncement by former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The purpose of the expansion was to improve equitable access to higher education and create institutions capable of supplying the knowledge and skilled manpower needed for national development. The university's pioneer Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdulmumini Hassan Rafindadi and pioneer Registrar, Mrs Habiba Anavoza Adeiza, were appointed in February 2011 and assumed duties in April of that year. Those early appointments formed the first administrative foundation of the institution. FUL is located in Lokoja, the confluence city where the Rivers Niger and Benue meet and its permanent campus is at Felele on the Lokoja–Okene road. The setting gives the university a distinctive regional position in central Nigeria. From its early years, FUL has developed programmes and research in the sciences, arts, social sciences, management, education, agriculture, law and other fields. Its history is therefore about planned federal expansion, deliberate institution-building and the creation of a multidisciplinary university serving Kogi State and the wider country.

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