KHAIRUN gets new sports facilities, as VC, Prof. Garba equates action with economic dev’t

By Nura Ahmad
As the Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu University (KHAIRUN), Kano, launches its newly constructed basketball and tennis courts, its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulraheed Garba, has observed that sports as the fastest growing industry in the global economic circuit. 


Professor Garba said sports is now a lucrative business, stressing that it it could be running in tandem with education in no distant time.


According to him, sports now occupy a strategic place in the socio-economic development of nations across the world.


The university authority, he noted, has keen interest in promoting sports, a situation which has culminated in its motivation of its students to develop their skills through the provision of top class sports facilities to encourage their indulgence in various sporting events aimed at to propelling them for participation in future national and international engagements.


Urging the students to redouble their effort with a view to achieve their set out objectives in life, the Vice Chancellor explained that education and sports if combined could catapult them to ascend to higher heights on the global stage.


He commended the proprietor of the institution for his commitment and support towards the development of education and charged the students to utilize the facilities provided in order to actualize their set target.


Professor Garba who was renown for his prowess as a former basketball star emphasized that the significance of education and sports is unique and unquantifiable.


In his remarks, the guest speaker at the occasion, Professor Musa Garba Yakasai said sports is one of the factors uniting various ethnic groups in Nigeria, adding that it is a tool used in projecting the positive image of nations that have invested massively in the sector.


In their separate remarks, the former Vice chancellor of Northwest University, Professor Mustapha Isa and KHAIRUN's registrar, Yusuf Datti urged the students to utilize the facilities for their benefits.


Delivering a vote of thanks, the director of sports of the university, Aishatu Dauda, pledged to work tirelessly towards the promotion and development of sports in the state.


Highlights of the event include the launching of the courts by Professor B.A. Haruna of the faculty of law, Bayero University, Kano (BUK) and a novelty match between selected students of the university.

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