Pen Resource University Gombe was yesterday renamed and unveiled by Alhaji (Dr.) Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, CFR, Emir of Gombe, and Chairman Gombe State Council of Emirs and Chiefs as North Eastern University.
Sources from the University revealed that the name had been reserved for the university long before it started the processes for obtaining the operational license and is rooted in the vision to establish a university indigenous of the North-Eastern.
“At take-off, we decided to name the university in the image of its progenitor, the great Pen Resource Academy, Gombe for the nascent university to earn public confidence by leveraging the goodwill, integrity and excellence in standards that is meritoriously synonymous with the Academy. Thus, the name Pen Resource University, Gombe. Today, our university students and their parents/sponsors can attest to the fact that we have surpassed their expectations in terms of all standards.” The source said.
The University have four (4) Faculties, twenty-seven (27) degree programmes and a Centre for African Medicinal Plants Research among others within the two (2) years of our existence
