SENATOR SUNDAY STEVE KARIMI PROPOSES FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, EGBE, KOGI STATE PASSES SECOND READING
At the plenary of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. Sunday Steve Karimi (Kogi West), sponsored a “BILL FOR AN ACT TO ESTABLISH FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, EGBE, KOGI STATE, 2024 (SB.299).” The Bill was first read on the floor of the Hallowed Chamber on the 12th December, 2023 and had the lead debate read again.
Senator Sunday Steve Karimi emphasized that the “Bill seeks to establish the Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences Egbe, Kogi State and make comprehensive provisions for it’s due Management and Administration.”
The Senator continued that the presentation of the Bill is “informed by the imperativeness to create more access to higher health and medical studies in view of the large number of qualified candidates who are annually stranded in their failed attempts in gaining admission into higher institutions in the state.”
The objectives for which the Bill was aimed at among other things are:
• to encourage the advancement of learning and to hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction, the opportunity of acquiring a higher education in Medicine and other Health Sciences;
• to develop and offer academic and professional programs leading to the award of Diplomas, First Degrees, Postgraduate Research and Higher Degrees with emphasis on Planning, Adaptive, Technical, Maintenance, Developmental and Productive Skills in the field of Medicine;
• to act as Agents and Catalysts, through Postgraduate Training, Research and Innovation for the Effective and Economic Utilization, Exploitation and Conservation of Nigeria’s Natural, Economic and Human Resources;
• to offer to the general population, as a form of public service, the results of Training and Research in Medicine and Allied Disciplines and to foster the practical application of those results.
Senator Sunday Steve Karimi concluded that “the Kogi State Government is ready to part with over 1000 acres of land with structures ready at the Egbe Hospital established by the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in 1951. The University is, therefore, to further advance knowledge through research and nurture unique innovations in Health Management as its core area of interest.”
