President Bola Tinubu has inaugurated the N1 billion Abdul Samad Rabiu International Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maiduguri.
The facility which was built and equipped by a philanthropist, the chairman of Bua Group, Alhaji Abdul Samad Rabiu, has various units including an artisan and handcraft laboratory, woodwork laboratory, fabrication machine laboratory, graphic and digital media laboratory, digital and virtual manufacturing; coding and application developing laboratory among others. I
naugurating the centre yesterday in Maiduguri, Vice President Kashim Shettima who represented President Tinubu at the ceremony commended Alhaji Rabiu for his gesture which he said was in line with the current administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
In his remarks, the chairman of Bua Group said the gesture was part of the corporate social responsibility of his conglomerate known as ASR Africa Initiative to assist the society.
Earlier in his welcome address, the vice chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Prof. Aliyu Shugaba, said the centre was important in two respects to the university which had prioritised entrepreneurial training.
He said; “First, it physically offers the gigantic and befitting edifice for entrepreneurial training.
