Location Of University Of Maiduguri

The University of Maiduguri is located in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, in the North-Eastern corner of Nigeria. The University's immediate environment is made up of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe, the five successor States of the defunct North Eastern State.

The six States occupying an estimated area of 310,666 square kilometres, have an estimated population of 11,888,297 (1981). The environment within which the University is located is rich in both human and natural resources. Culturally and socially, the region is one of the great meeting points of early African Civilizations. Thus, the remarkable cultures of this region at once indicate the rich rewards in terms of higher learning and research to scholars, students and the population at large.

Vision & Mission

The University of Maiduguri shall be an institution dedicated to scholarship and learning in the Arts, Sciences, Humanities and Technology, and the development of moral and civic character of all persons who pass through her portals. The University Shall facilitate and advance scholarship and learning, especially in the light of her location in the Sahelian environment in the North-Eastern Nigeria, and at the crossroads of Africa and Middle-Eastern Culture.Vision StatementThe University of Maiduguri apart from achieving competence in the basic Arts and Sciences, aims at excellence in Agriculture, Pastoralism, Engineering, Human and Veterinary Medicine and Information Technology as well as in Arid Zone, Trans-Saharan and Inter-African Peace and Strategic Studies. The University also aims to promote the development of Private and Public morality, discipline, accountability and probity, and also international cooperation through participation, research and dissemination of information.Objectives of the UniversityAs enunciated in the University of Maiduguri Act 1979 the following objectives would be pursued by the University:
Encourage the advancement of learning and hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction the opportDepartmenty of acquiring a higher and liberal education;

Provide courses of instruction and other facilities for the pursuit of learning in all its branches, and to make those facilities available on proper terms to such persons as are equipped to benefit from them;

Encourage and promote scholarship and conduct research in all fields of learning and human endeavor;

Relate its activities to social, cultural and economic needs of the people of Nigeria; and undertake any other activities appropriate for a University of the highest standard.

University Colours and Emblem

Azure 1, a pall wavy argent 2, per pall a torch ardent 3, surmounting an ink horn sable with quill 4, all within a border, motto ilmum tunoto 5, with the date 1975 6, resting in a champ vert Fleury 7.Notes
for azure, Borno blue is used, being the traditional colour of the Borno kingdom, in which the University is situated;

symbolising Nigeria, through the confluence of the Benue and Niger;

symbolising the torch of learning, which is passed on from scholar (=scientist) to scholar of the next generation;

symbolising scholarship and science, writing and therefore, publishing;

expressing the ethos of the University, signifying through learning we serve; i.e. its duty to society. This is Kanuri, in ajami script;

the date of foundation of the University;

symbolising the delights of the garden of learning.
The traditional colour and metals were partly derived from Arabia during the Crusades and are black (sable = a black fur), white (argent = silver, in Old French, from Latin), red (gules = the fur of the hermine, dyed red, possibly of Slavonic origin), blue (azure, from lajward= the blue lapis stone, in Persian, transmitted through Arabic), green (vert, Old French, from Latin), yellow (or=gold in Old French, from Latin); they are in medieval French, as is most of English heraldic language, as French was then the official language of England..

Facts & Figures

University of Maiduguri was established in 1975 with physical facilities inherited from the former North East College of Arts and Science (NECAS).The first Vice-Chancellor was Late Professor Essien-Udom. He occupied a three-bedroom flat as his office.At the beginning of the 1976/77 academic session, the University admitted its pioneer undergraduate students in three (3) faculties:

1. Faculty of Arts & Education;
2. Faculty of Social Sciences & Law
3. Faculty of Science

The 1st convocation ceremony of the University took place on the 1st of December 1979, and on that day, honorary degrees (LL.D.) were conferred on:

1. HRH, Late Mustapha Umar El-kanemi, The Shehu of Borno.
2. HRH, Late Oba Daniel Aladesanmi II, The Ewi of Ado Ekiti, First Chancellor of University of  Maiduguri