Tinubu renames University of Maiduguri as Muhammadu Buhari University

• The change of the institution’s name was announced at the Federal Executive Council on Thursday

As part of his move to honour and immortalise his predecessor, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renamed the University of Maiduguri after the late former President, Muhammadu Buhari.

The University will now be known as Muhammadu Buhari University. The change of the institution’s name was announced at the Federal Executive Council on Thursday.

The development was contained in a terse statement issued by the presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday.

“President Tinubu renames University of Maiduguri as MUHAMMADU Buhari University. President Tinubu announced the honour at the session of tributes of the Federal Executive Council to his late predecessor,” he wrote on X.

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