By Our Correspondent
President Bola Tinubu has renamed University of Abuja after the elder statesman and former head of State, General Yakubu Gowon.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, after a Federal Executive Council FEC) meeting on Monday.
The Minister said the decision was taken by the Federal Executive Council to rename the University of Abuja to honour elder statesman, General Yakubu Gowon.
“The University of Abuja will, henceforth, be called Yakubu Gowon University.
“Of course, the process will have to go to the National Assembly for all legislative work in that direction, but FEC has taken that decision to write to the National Assembly to change the name of the University of Abuja”.
