The management of El-Amin University Minna,Niger State has has opened a strategic discussions with the university of West Bohemia aimed to enhance Research, Education, Capacity Building in the field of Social Sciences as well as Engineering,held at the Senate building of the university,on Wednesday 2nd April, 2025.
Speaking to journalists shortly,Professor Zahorik, a renowned expert in African studies, explained that his mission is to set up meaningful collaboration with El-Amin University to exchange ideas across disciplines and to also sign MOU.
Professor Zahorik disclosed that his university had earlier signed MOU with universities in Abuja,Ibada and Lagos, while,
El-Amin is the only university from Northern region of the country to collaborate with the West Bohemia university.
He said the meeting was aimed towards given opportunity to the university in the area of funding,in terms of capacity building project, research project, adding that the discussion would afford the institution another further collaboration, especially, when applying for funding, saying that first area of interest is academic mobility so that both institutions would be meeting to be discussing on what can be done in the various disciplines, including social sciences to Engineering programmes.
The Vice-Chancellor of El-Amin University Minna,Dr.E.J.Zwanbin hinted that their discussions was one of the first international collaboration entered into, pointing out that the collaboration with the West Bohemia university will increase the rating of the El-Amin university, open up the institution to funding and also gives opportunity to staff to be trained abroad to acquired cutting edge ideas on how to manage the knowledged shared with the students.
Dr. Zwanbin stated”. We hope that in the coming months, we would begin to see the results including sending our students to abroad to also go and learn”. he said.
V.C while highlighting the aims and objectives of the discussion, revealed that it would centred on capacity building of the staff and in the future for training and research and largely organize joint conferences, joint certification where the university students would obtained foreign university certificate among others.
According to him,the discussion is a broader partnership, but we are starting first with capacity building, the staff exchange and curriculum development”. he added.
Also speaking, the Pro-Chancellor, El-Amin University, Mohammed Ibrahim Babangida noted that the young university that just took off in less than two years to be in partnership with international university is a milestone achievement worthy to be celebrated.
Mohammed pointed out that the area of collaboration is very broad, adding that in no distance time they would begin to narrow the areas of need such as funding, research and infrastructure, emphasizing however that academic issues will be the main focus.
Babangida’s words”. The overall benefit is very numerous because one, it put the institution in the international stage, it bench marks the institution against international practice, adding that for anybody who is coming to collaborate with our university will consider the standard that would be obtained which will give the people additional comfort and confidence, the second advantage, is the research opportunities,the third advantage is the access to funding”.
