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born 1963 Nigeria
Fatima Batul Mukhtar (born 23 May 1963) is a Nigerian academician, a Professor of Botany. Her research interest are centered on growth regulation, biostatistics, biotechnology and plant conservation. she was appointed Vice Chancellor of Federal University Dutse by former President Muhammadu Buhari where she served between 2016 and 2021.
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Saddling our students with worthless cardboard papers in the name of certificates has never been the objective of Federal University Dutse.
I thanked TETFund for providing the necessary funding to execute noble projects in the school.
The anti-diabetic drug has gotten ethical approval for the clinical trial by the Kano state hospital management board.
The university is proposing four new programmes in the Faculty of Management Sciences, apart from the five existing programmes.
Equally, the students’ population has steadily increased from 202 in 2012 to the current number of 9,491.
The universities are mostly run on committee system and this should be encouraged. But when I came, I discovered there were many committees that were redundant and some non-existent.
Managing and consolidating on the foundation of a university that is so young owed a great challenges which is commonly traceable to the dearth of resources that typically characterises our economy in the last few years.
The challenges are many, actually. Let say that my predecessor has done quite well during his stay in the five years of the establishment of the university, because it was during his period that all the structures you have seen were put on ground.
I guess so, because all I knew was studies. From the very beginning, I was focused. I knew what I wanted and I pursued and got what I wanted.
No, I don’t feel intimidated at all, because I have been working for several years now and I have been used to being alone in the midst of men and I have always gained the support of the men. They have never looked at me as a woman.
We would ensure that the university becomes a service to the community and to national development. I would like to say with all sincerity that establishing TETFund was the best thing that had happened to higher education in Nigeria.
The university has performed exceptionally well when the National University Commission (NUC) came for accreditation of its academic programmers in May/June last year where approval was given to the university to run eight programmes.
I can only say that I was focused and knew what I wanted. I did not know anything about business; the only I knew is studies, so are my siblings. We were 10 in number and out of all of us, nobody has below a Masters degree and we are all doing well.
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