The Senate has passed a bill to establish a Federal University of Applied Sciences in Kachia, Kaduna.

This followed the adoption of a report by the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND on establishing the university at the plenary on Tuesday.

The committee chair, Mohammed Muntari (APC-Katsina), presented the report.

Mr Muntari, in his presentation, said stakeholders at the public hearing on the establishment of the Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia Kaduna, supported the passage of the bill.

He said the school would help provide scientific knowledge for improving and solving environmental hazards and provide exposure to professional studies in technology.

The senator stated, “The hallmark of the proposed Federal University of Applied Sciences is to produce graduates well equipped with practical and theoretical grounded knowledge in technology, applied science, commerce and management.

“This will reduce risks and challenge of productivity, data and information, cost benefits, marketing and security bedeviling humanity. The establishment of the Federal University will reduce the ills around the national economy and de-escalating chances of entrenching heinous criminal activities being perpetrated by men of the underworld.”

Mr Muntari noted that the knowledge and skills acquired by the graduates from the envisaged Act of the National Assembly will go a long way in expanding and deepening the horizon of the graduates in information management.

It will consequently improve national integration and social progress of Nigeria’s “multicultural, young people with yearning and aspiration to acquire skills in information, economic and science management.”

He urged the Senate to consider and approve the report.

The Senate also passed a bill at the plenary to establish the Federal University of Technology Ilaro in Ogun. The passage followed the adoption of the committee’s report on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND.

(NAN)