Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah

“"If all students stay at home, we can teach all our courses virtually because we have that capacity."”

“"ASUU strike does not mean school activities should not continue."”

“"The industry is always on our campus to teach our students, to contribute to our curriculum."”

“"No student will graduate from the University of Abuja without having a registered company."”

“"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."”

“"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."”

“"We want Nigeria to catch up with the major players in the world like Singapore, Brazil and Malaysia."”

“"Everything we will do has to be that UniAbuja will be central to the development of Nigeria."”

“"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."”

“"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."”

“"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."”