Tyover Dajoh takes over from the immediate past Rector Prof. Joseph Utsev, now Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation.
The governor said this was furtherance to enacting the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers by the Benue State House of Assembly.
A seven-man visitation panel has been constituted to audit the university’s activities from 2016, when the last panel visited.
The statement said scores of people were killed when armed hoodlums attacked the community on Saturday.
Mr Kula said that the committee was to collaborate with the state government transition committee to ensure a seamless handover of power.
Spokesperson of the Alia/Ode Campaign Organisation, Tersoo Kula, said the loan would deepen the debt profile of the state.
