The Vice-Chancellor of Bingham University, Prof. Haruna Kuje Ayuba, has disclosed that the institution will award scholarships worth N231.3 million to 779 beneficiaries in the current academic year.
Ayuba also announced that the university has paid the final tranche of its debt owed to ECWA Portfolio Management Limited.
The Vice-Chancellor made the disclosures on Tuesday while addressing the 73rd General Church Council of the Evangelical Church Winning All, where he highlighted the university’s achievements and infrastructural needs.
He said the institution, with over 9,000 students, had continued to record growth in Nigeria’s education sector.
According to him, the university now has 15 faculties, one College of Medical Sciences, 63 departments, 48 undergraduate programmes and 59 postgraduate programmes.
Giving an update on the 2025/2026 academic session, Ayuba said 1,805 undergraduates matriculated, while 753 postgraduate students were admitted into 59 programmes.
He added that seven professors, 20 associate professors, 60 academic staff and 90 non-teaching staff were promoted.
On research development, Ayuba said the Zankli Research Institute, recently upgraded from a research centre, secured $928,508 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for tuberculosis diagnostics validation.
He said the university’s Neuroscience group also secured a $15,500 grant from the International Brain Research Organization.
Ayuba urged ECWA to see the institution as a strategic mission field rather than merely a conventional university.
“Where conventional missionaries cannot go, graduates of Medicine, Pharmacy, IT and other programmes can go. These graduates are the missionaries needed in the 21st century,” he said.
He listed urgent needs of the institution to include more hostels, faculty buildings, laboratories, a convocation arena, postgraduate school, chapel extension, solar lights, paved roads and ICT upgrades.
Ayuba was accompanied to the meeting by the Registrar, Mr Dabri Misal.
