ATBU Signs MoU, MoA with Canadian Organization, to Improve Entrepreneurship Skills

By Adamu IMAM,Bauchi 

ATBU Signs MoU MoA with Canadian Organization,to Improve Entrepreneurship Skills

By Adamu IMAM, Bauchi 

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi and two Canadian Organisations, PRI Global Ventures and International Trade Facilitation Association, Canada, have signed Memorandum of Understanding and also in Action on Internationalisation and Agribusiness Ventures respectively.

This was contained in a press release signed and issued to journalists in Bauchi by the Information and Public Relations Officer of the Directorate information of the institution Zailani Bappa recently.

The MoU and MoA were signed at the Council Chamber of the University on November 8, 2024, with the Vice chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Hassan Garba, signing on behalf of the University while the Director, Strategy and leadership, PRI Global Ventures and Ambassador to the International Trade Facilitation Association Canada, Prince Collins E. Nwosu, signing on behalf of both international Trade Facilitation Association and PRI Global Ventures Limited Canada.

The Vice chancellor Prof Ibrahim Hassan Garba Stated that the University plans to cultivate more than 500 hectres of land at the Gubi Campus of the University in the next rainy season as part of its move to address students interpreneuship and sustainability. 

He said that to ensure continuity, the University would develop a sustainability policy plan that would aggressively address the financial challenge faced by the university in such a way that government allocation will become the secondary source of funding to the University, adding that the University has to learn to reduce dependency entirely on government funding.

The Vice Chancellor said, 'we have to learn to look at other ways of doing things, there are many ways we can reposition this University and place it on the path to sustainability". 

He said that one viable way the University can become Financially sustainable is in the area of Agribusiness and allied Ventures. 

In his brief address earlier, the Director, Strategy and leadership PRI Global Ventures Limited and Trade, Ambassador to the International Trade Facilitation Association Canada Prince Collins E Nwosu said they were in the University to sign the legal framework on the MoU and MoA on this matter.

He assured the university management of the two organizations' readiness to fulfill their own part of the signed agreement.