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Bayero University Kano (BUK) is one of the
"daughters" of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Like all good
"daughters", BUK is not only meticulously following the footsteps of
ABU Zaria but is working hard to excel in many fronts. The first set of BUK
graduates completed in 1966 as a faculty of ABU Zaria. In 1975, BUK (it was then called Abdullahi Bayero
College) was raised to the status of a University College with the right to
award degrees on behalf of Ahmadu Bello University and was renamed Abdullahi Bayero
University College, with its own Governing Council. This continued till 1977
when BUK fully became independent as a full-fledged university. Since then, BUK has not relented in making history
in academic arena, and thus, has recorded several achievements over the last
three decades. The recent effort of BUK is facing the menace of climate change by
transforming Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands of
West and Central Africa through Partnerships in Higher Education.
Bayero
University Kano: Actively Transforming Drylands of West African Sub-Region Through
Partnerships (2)
Universities are established primarily to train high
level man power, conduct quality research and engage in community service, a
practice referred to as outreach in academic parlance. In recent years, many
Universities in Nigeria have taken deliberate actions to address some of the
challenges limiting effective teaching, research and community service. One of
these universities is Bayero University, Kano (BUK), which has in the last ten
years, improved its infrastructure, embarked on human resource development and increased
the number of graduate and postgraduate courses. As part of this initiative, BUK
has widely opened its doors and established national and international
partnerships in consonance with best global practices. Among the new faculties
and research centres established to address the development needs of Nigeria
and other countries in West and Central Africa (WCA) is the Centre for Dryland
Agriculture (CDA). Established in 2012, the Centre has so far attracted
research funding from various international institutions such as the MacArthur
Foundation, and has won the World Bank competitive Africa Centres of Excellence
(ACE) Grant.
Bayero
University Kano: Actively Transforming Drylands of West African Sub-Region
through Partnerships (3)
Sequel to the last two articles, it was revealed
that Bayero University Kano has tirelessly continued to serve humanity through its
famous research outlet, Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA). The Centre has
put in place teams of multi-disciplinary researchers, established relations
with farmers and industry and entered into collaborations with major
institutions at national and international levels. All these are geared towards
designing and implementing researches that will directly impact food production
and sustainable natural resource management as well as enhanced capacity for
the various stakeholders along the major value chains. For this reason, the
Centre is attracting enormous goodwill, which is a reflection of the confidence
by various stakeholders in the capacity of the University to deliver quality
research outputs. To ensure that this goal is achieved, the CDA has so far embarked
on rigorous training of its academics and technicians to acquaint them with
current research methodologies and tools of scientific inquiry, while exposing
them to state of art research facilities. Training of researches on best
practices of data collection and working with farmers, as well as engagement
with industry is given an equal amount of prominence to make all its researches
people-centred.
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