Jonathan appoints co-ordinator for upgrading of Police Academy
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Munzali Jibril as the Coordinator for the take-off of the Police Academy, Wudil as a degree-awarding institution.
The appointment is coming on the heels of the approval given on May 5 this year by the President, in Council, for the up-grading of the Police Academy.
The M.D. Yusuf Committee on the reform of the Nigeria Police Force had recommended that the federal government upgrade the institution to a degree awarding status. In line with this recommendation, the government in 2009 commenced plans to transform the Police Academy which is situated in Kano State to the recommended status.
A statement by the Presidential spokesman Ima Niboro, stated that Mr. Jibril who was a member of the committee put together by the president to advise the federal government on the upgrade “is expected to coordinate all necessary activities to ensure that the academy begins to function in its new capacity as soon as the bill to provide for its establishment and incorporation as a degree-awarding institution is passed into law by the National Assembly and assented to by the President”.
The 59 year-old university administrator is a former deputy vice-chancellor (academic) of the Bayero University, Kano, former provost of the Nigerian Defence Academy and former executive secretary of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC).
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