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born 1962 Nigeria
Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah (born 1962) is a Nigerian academic, educator, comparative literature scholar, author, and professor who served as the 6th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja from 2019 to June 2024. He previously served as the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University from 2009 to 2019 and has also taught at Western Illinois University, United States.
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"Everything we will do has to be that UniAbuja will be central to the development of Nigeria."
"No student will graduate from the University of Abuja without having a registered company."
"ASUU strike does not mean school activities should not continue."
"We want Nigeria to catch up with the major players in the world like Singapore, Brazil and Malaysia."
"The industry is always on our campus to teach our students, to contribute to our curriculum."
"If all students stay at home, we can teach all our courses virtually because we have that capacity."
"It is in the Nigerian university system that professors and lecturers wait for industries to come to them to plead for a relationship, and not the other way round."
"Let me tell you that we started the first year by celebrating research activity, when our lecturers were bringing in grants."
"When they turn in their proposals and it is good, some get about N300,000, N500,000, N800,000 and so on and so forth, depending on the nature of the research. We spend millions on these researches."
"We do not believe that when research is done it should be dumped on the shelf and forgotten, so we are working to ensure that research findings are put to practice and that they yield results."
"When we first did the celebration, our academic staff had brought in N350 million, and we thought that was big. When we celebrated in December 2021, we realised more than N1 billion."
"Without conscious efforts to ensure collaboration between universities and industries, the Nigerian university system would be unable to achieve what universities have achieved in the USA, UK, Taiwan, China or any nation that has taken the university system very seriously."
"This university gives a lot of priority to research at different levels; for instance, through our Centre for Undergraduate Research, we encourage undergraduate students to embark on research under the mentorship of some academic staff; we actually fund that."