Maitama Sule University, Kano
Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano, formerly Northwest University Kano is a Kano State Government-owned university with a temporary campus located at the center of the city of Kano and a main campus located along Gwarzo Road. It is one of the universities established in Nigeria in 2012 which are overseen and accredited by the NUC National Universities Commission.[1]
Former names | Northwest University Kano |
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Type | Public |
Established | 2012 |
Chancellor | Alh. Isma'ila Muhammad Mera, CON Emir of Argungu |
Vice-Chancellor | Professor Mustapha Ahmad Isah |
Location | , , |
Campus | Urban |
Nickname | MSU |
Affiliations | NUC, ASUU |
Website | www |
History
The Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano was established in 2012 by the administration of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso by way of promoting and enhancing the country's-old prominence of the North-West as both cynosure and pacesetter in the fields of learning and scholarship not only in West Africa, but throughout the continent and beyond.[2] The Northwest temporary building was built by Techno Katagum Construction company ltd.it was initially built as a commercial building by the kano state government,during the regime of Alhaji Abubakar Rimi.