By Emmanuel Olorunsola
Thirteen Nigerian students at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Kaduna State, have bagged double degrees, having graduated from a Chinese institution in Railway Engineering.
A former Vice-Chancellor of ABU, Ibrahim Garba, had earlier said that the university entered a collaboration with the Central South University, China, to introduce a new joint degree in Civil Engineering.
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But a statement accompanying a photograph of the students posted online read, “Another set of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria students who just graduated from China in Railway Engineering, react during the ceremony, this makes them graduates in Nigeria as well.
Garba had said ,“The first sets were awarded scholarships for their Masters in China to become experts in their careers,” “Because of the respect outside world has for our engineering, that’s why you will hear a story of our collaboration with a university in China,” the VC was quoted to have said back in 2019.”
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“We have now entered into a joint degree for the first time in Nigeria, a joint degree between Ahmadu Bello University and Central South University, Shong Shi in China.
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“Chosen students in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering will spend three years in ABU and go to China and spend two years and earn two degrees of ABU and China simultaneously.
“Our degree in ABU may be Civil Engineering and that of China may be Railway Engineering for example. I remember, less than a year ago, we have sent the first batch of 45 students.”
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It’s known that Railway Engineering programmes are relatively new to Nigeria’s university system as a stand-alone course, a situation which prompted CCECC, a Chinese firm, to offer youths scholarships thereto.
But the ministry of transportation was later accused of making the opportunity exclusive for top government officials rather than throwing it out openly to Nigerian students.
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