Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi has got the nod of the National Universities Commission (NUC) for the accreditation of 21 new academic courses.

ATBU also received approval for all courses offered at the Seven Colleges of Education and Polytechnics affiliated with it.

In addition, all the Nine Courses offered at the World Bank supported projects of the University, the Sustainable, Procurement, Environmental and Social Standard Enhancement Projects – Center of Excellence. (SPESSE-CE) were equally fully accredited.

The Commission similarly approves the establishment of Three additional Faculties in the University which are the Faculty of Computing, the Faculty of Dentistry, and the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences which will all together run a total of 56 different Departments.

The disclosure was made by the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Sani Usman Kunya who explained that the approvals came at a time when ATBU was ever poised to achieve excellence in all Academic pursuits.

Sani Kunya said that the University sought the accreditation of 25 courses from the NUC but got 21 of the courses fully accredited and Three of them got an interim accreditation while one course, Urban and Regional Planning was denied accreditation.

According to him, “We are at this point in time exerting our total commitment to ensure that all the unfortunate problems facing the department of Urban and Regional Planning are fully addressed.”

The Ag Vice Chancellor assured that the University has already put all measures on ground for the successful take-off of the new faculties and departments.

It be recalled that the University’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has successfully taken off this Academic Session as contained in a statement by Zailani Bappa, Director, Directorate of Information and Public Relations.