The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Transportation, Daura, Prof. Umar Adam Katsayal, mni, has inaugurated a Trans-Saharan route and trade research project team for the university.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Chief Information and Communication Officer, Federal University of Transportation, Daura, Umar Usman said the team was constituted in an effort to establish research directions for the University of Daura, the first University of Transportation in Africa.
The statement read in part: ” the team was expected to provide a comprehensive framework for organizing and executing a research project on the historical dynamics of Trans-Saharan Trade and their relevance to contemporary African development.
“The Vice-Chancellor,welcome the Principal Investigator, who was the immediate past Secretary-General, Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof. Yakubu Ocheifu Aboki and other members to the University.
“He urged them to expedite action with the aim of meeting-up with deadline for the reseach work, saying that their selection was meticulously done in consideration of their vast knowledge and experience especially on the history of the nation.
“The Vice-Chancellor said that, the project brought expert researchers from Nigeria, West Africa, Pan-African institutions together, to address four critical research questions through fieldwork, collaborative presentations, panel discussions.
“it is also to form the basis for reasearch to be carried out by the staff of the University in consideration of transportation focus of the institution”, the Vice-Chancellor concluded.
Speaking on behalf of the team, the Principal Investigator, Prof. Yakubu Ocheifu Aboki, thanked the Vice-Chancellor and other management staff of the university for the confidence reposed in them to carry out the very important assignment.
It could be recalled that this team was the second research team to be inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor in order to provide research directions for the young university.
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