We Lost Nearly 70 Professors To Insurgency — UniMaid VC

Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Prof. Aliyu
Shugaba, said at the weekend that about 70 professors have left the
services of the institution as a result of the security challenges
occasioned by activities of the Boko Haram insurgents.

The Vice Chancellor, who spoke through the Director, Alumni
Services of the Institution, Prof. Shettima Mustapha Liberty, at
the reunion meeting of 1999 graduates of Sociology and Anthropology
of the institution also disclosed the institution has also lost
quite a number of staff as a result of attempt by the insurgents to
infiltrate or break into the institution.

He however said despite the security challenges, the management
of the institution never considered closing down the institution
for one day as doing so would amount to giving credence to the
ideology of insurgents.

He also said despite the security challenges, the institution
has continued to wax stronger and still receive applications for
admission from across the country because the institution has
remained a centre of unity.

While tasking graduates of the institution to continue to work
with security agents to find lasting solution to the insecurity
challenges , the Vice Chancellor said many of the Professors who
left the institution as a result of the insecurity in Borno state
have started returning to the institution.

He told the ex-students of the institution that “the university
you left since 1999 is still standing and waxing very strong
despite the huge security challenges. As you are aware, Maiduguri
happen to be the epicenter of security challenges posed by the Boko
Haram insurgents for the past 11 years now.

“But we never closed that institution for one day on account of
this insurgency. We have been teaching, we have researching and our
student are there. It is not that we have not been having
challenges. There have been a lot of infiltration. They wanted to
enter the university at various times and we have lost some of our
staff, but yet that university continued.

“Aside the prayers, the secret has been our commitment because
if we close the university on that account, we are furthering the
ideology of Boko Haram because they are saying they don’t want
education.

“So, if you closed the institution, you are helping them to
achieve their aim and so, we have never closed that institution on
that account.

“Our successive Vice Chancellors have worked extra hard to
ensure that the vision and mission of the founding fathers are
maintained. That is why today, despite the security challenges,
people are still applying to the university from all over the
country.

“We have lost nearly 70 professors in the University to other
institutions because of the security challenges. But the good news
is that most of them are going back”.

Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Prof. Aliyu
Shugaba, said at the weekend that about 70 professors have left the
services of the institution as a result of the security challenges
occasioned by activities of the Boko Haram insurgents.

The Vice Chancellor, who spoke through the Director, Alumni
Services of the Institution, Prof. Shettima Mustapha Liberty, at
the reunion meeting of 1999 graduates of Sociology and Anthropology
of the institution also disclosed the institution has also lost
quite a number of staff as a result of attempt by the insurgents to
infiltrate or break into the institution.

He however said despite the security challenges, the management
of the institution never considered closing down the institution
for one day as doing so would amount to giving credence to the
ideology of insurgents.

He also said despite the security challenges, the institution
has continued to wax stronger and still receive applications for
admission from across the country because the institution has
remained a centre of unity.

While tasking graduates of the institution to continue to work
with security agents to find lasting solution to the insecurity
challenges , the Vice Chancellor said many of the Professors who
left the institution as a result of the insecurity in Borno state
have started returning to the institution.

He told the ex-students of the institution that “the university
you left since 1999 is still standing and waxing very strong
despite the huge security challenges. As you are aware, Maiduguri
happen to be the epicenter of security challenges posed by the Boko
Haram insurgents for the past 11 years now.

“But we never closed that institution for one day on account of
this insurgency. We have been teaching, we have researching and our
student are there. It is not that we have not been having
challenges. There have been a lot of infiltration. They wanted to
enter the university at various times and we have lost some of our
staff, but yet that university continued.

“Aside the prayers, the secret has been our commitment because
if we close the university on that account, we are furthering the
ideology of Boko Haram because they are saying they don’t want
education.

“So, if you closed the institution, you are helping them to
achieve their aim and so, we have never closed that institution on
that account.

“Our successive Vice Chancellors have worked extra hard to
ensure that the vision and mission of the founding fathers are
maintained. That is why today, despite the security challenges,
people are still applying to the university from all over the
country.

“We have lost nearly 70 professors in the University to other
institutions because of the security challenges. But the good news
is that most of them are going back”.