The Nigerian Navy says its newly established Admiralty University of Nigeria (ADUN) will enhance local training of its officers and personnel, thereby reducing capital flight to foreign countries.
Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe EIbas offered the explanation yesterday in Abuja, at a press conference to signal the take-off of the university, which has its permanent site in Delta State.
The CNS, who was represented by the Chief of Policy and Plans, Naval Headquarters, Rear Admiral Henry Babalola, Ete-Ibas said the flag-ship institution, which takes off in October, will commence academic activities with degree programmes in three faculties.
According to him, ADUN was “conceived to expand the frontiers of knowledge for the growth and development of humanity, meet the training needs of the Nigerian Navy along with those of their sister services with reduced travel abroad for training and the pressure it imposed on foreign exchange.
“Admission of students into the inaugural class is already ongoing and the university opens in October 2018,with degree programs in three faculties-Arts and Social Sciences, Management Sciences and Science, offering pioneer degree programs in emerging fields such as Forensic Science, Cyber Security and Software Engineering, “he said, disclosing that the” faculties of Medicine, Engineering, Law and Pharmacy are planned to commence in 2019.”
This was as Ibas added: “A full capacity ADUN will deliver undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate degree and certificate programs in nine faculties on four campuses-its main campus in Ibusa as well as additional campuses in Lagos, Sapele and Calabar.
“The permanent university campus along the Ibusa Ugwashi-Uku Express Way, near Asaba, Delta State, is fully equipped with all academic infrastructure, science labs, computer facilities, student residential cafeteria and restaurants sports grounds, fully equipped health centre as well as providing comfortable en-suite hostels for all students”.
“To prepare graduates who are equipped with skills demanded in the industries and are globally competitive, ADUN will offer a non-traditional teaching and learning environment”.
“Lectures will be delivered through Flipped Classroom technology, giving students access to lectures, notes, books and teaching materials online, while classroom time will be used to better understand the theory, practice and critically analyse new knowledge. This is in line to the best educational practices as experienced by students at some of the best universities in the United States and Europe.”
The Naval Chief further disclosed that the institution will expose students to global best practices, adding that ADUN was conceived through a public-private-partnership arrangement.
His words: “Students will be consciously exposed to industry and global best practices through teaching and mentoring by industry professionals, exchange programs and internships at top corporations here in Nigeria and overseas.
“Students of ADUN will be graduating not only with the needed academic credentials but most importantly will be job ready graduates equipped with the skills for fruitful careers and to be job creators themselves.”
