AUST, RMAFC PARTNER ON HUMAN CAPACITY BUILDING AND OTHER AREAS OF PARTNERSHIP

The African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja and the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), a federal government parastatal are to partner on human capacity building and other possible areas of collaboration.

This was the aftermath of a courtesy visit by the AUST team led by its Acting President, Professor Azikiwe Peter Onwualu, FAS to the Chairman of RMAFC, Dr. Mohammed Bello Shehu in his office in Abuja on Wednesday, April 5, 2023.

The Acting President of AUST, Professor Azikiwe Peter Onwualu, FAS, in his address said that the university’s  team paid this unique visit so as to engage, explore and identify mutually beneficial areas of partnership between the two institutions more especially in the areas of human capacity building and research.

He stressed that the university since inception in 2007 has produced high level engineers, scientists and technologists whose research works are second to none in Africa and urged the RMAFC chairman to partner with the university in order to tap from the numerous  research works that could improve the job efficiencies of the two organizations.

Professor Onwualu thanked the Chairman and his team for the warm reception accorded him and his team at a short notice and congratulated him on his recent appointment as the chairman having taken over from Engr. Elias Mbam who resigned recently to contest in the just concluded 2023 general elections and wished him the best of luck.

Responding, Dr. Mohammed Bello Shehu thanked the AUST Acting President and his team for the visit and promised that his institution would be ready to partner with AUST in identified areas of collaboration.

He expressed his delight over the high academic standard of the university and all the efforts being put in by the Acting President to make the university a world class one.

Before the AUST team departed, the two institutions agreed to form a committee to work out possible areas of collaboration.

Professor Onwualu was accompanied on the visit by some key Faculty and staff of the University namely,  Dr Abdulhakeem Bello, Director of Academic Planning (DAP), AUST; Dr Vitalis Anye, Acting Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Dr Usman Bello, Acting Head, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics; Dr Morgan Leo Akpan, Faculty member, Petroleum and Energy Resources department and Centre Leader, African Centre for Mineral Exploration and Development (ACMED); and Mr Solomon Ibrahim, Personal Assistant to the Acting President and member of the central secretariat of ACMED.