By: Danjuma Attah, Gombe
Pro-Chancellor and founder of Pen Resource University Gombe, Dr. Sani Jauro has given reasons why the two year old private institution is now called North-Eastern University, Gombe.
In a chat with newsmen shortly after the unveiling of the new name, Dr Sani Jauro said, Pen Resource was used for the University to earn public confidence by leveraging the goodwill, integrity and excellence in standards that is meritoriously synonymous with Pen Resource Academy, it’s progenitor.
According to him, “The University is an offshoot of Pen Resource Academy, Gombe, an excellent institution by all standards.
“It is on record that Pen Resource Academy has carved a niche for itself in excellent academic, moral and ethical standards in the North-Eastern subregion and the nation at large and to the glory of God, it has given birth to North-Eastern University Gombe, which used to be known as Pen Resource University, Gombe”, he stated.
He explained further that the name North-Eastern University, Gombe was reserved for the institution long before the process of obtaining the operational licence was rooted in the founder’s vision to establish a university indigenous of the North-Eastern part of Nigeria in character.
He said the dream of the founders was a university that can further develop the world by paving ways to harness the excellent brainpower, knowledge, integrity, mortality, sense of responsibility, love and sacrifice for the other, human and financial strength fertile land pregnant with oil, gas and solid minerals as well as traditional sciences and technology handed down by its progenitors but neglected over time.
“The task of the North-Eastern University, Gombe is therefore clear. It is to serve as a nexus for development, bringing together all the necessary northeastern Nigeria’s endowment for the development of mankind”, he emphasized.
He then restated the University’s commitment to becoming one of the ten best universities in Nigeria within the first ten years of the institution’s establishment stressing that, “all hands are on deck, we shall be there by the grace of God”.
