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1st Kanawa Tertiary institution basketball championship: KHAIRUN VC tasks students on academic and sports

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Students have been urged to utilize their potential skills both academically and sporting events in order to actualize their set objectives in life. The Vice chancellor of Khalifa Isyaku Rabiu university KHAIRUN, Professor Abdulrashid Garba made the call during the on going 1st Kanawa Tertiary institution basketball championship semi- final between Bayero university Kano BUK and KHAIRUN' held at BUK old site basketball court. Professor Abdulrashid Garba who described sports nowaday as a lucrative venture and at the same time use it to unite different ethnic groups for the development of the country. The vice chancellor charged the students to exhibits sportsmanship as both players were brothers. While expressing gratitude to the sponsors of the tournament, he called on other wealthy individuals and corporate organisations to contribute their quota towards the overall development of various sporting events in higher institutions and the country at large. "Honestly ...

KHAIRUN, BUK two others for 1st Kanawa Tertiary institution basketball championship semi- final tomorrow

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Khalifa Isyaku Rabiu university KHAIRUN basketball team will lock horns with Bayero university Kano BUK in the first semi final of the on-going  1st Kanawa Tertiary institution basketball championship. The second semi final is between Aliko Dangote university of science and technology Wudil and Northwest University Kano . The matches will be played at the BUK basketball court tomorrow Friday from 4:pm to 6:pm. The competition which is organised in collaboration with DAM Foundation as a training ground ahead of zonal preliminaries and Nigerian University Games Association NUGA proper scheduled to hold at Jos university in May, 2025. Speaking on the tournament, the chairman of NUGA technical committee, Professor Musa Garba Yakasai AA described the championship as a way of training and recruit hidden talented students for zonal and national engagements. While commending the DAM Foundation for supporting and sponsoring the  championship, he urged them to extend the spo...

KHAIRUN VC greets Prof. Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo at 47 year

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The Vice-Chancellor of Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu university KHAIRUN, Professor Abdulrashid Garba has greeted professor Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo at 47 year. A statement signed by KHAIRUN's head of corporate affairs and marketing department, Bilal Dahiru Tijjani said on behalf of the university's management is wishing a happy blessed birthday to a Nigerian educationist, philanthropist, the Founder and President of Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria, (MAAUN) Group of Universities as well as the President of the Association of African Private Universities (AAPU). The statement added that ''As an educationist and philanthropist, you've made an indelible mark on our community. Your birthday is a celebration of your life's work and the countless lives you've touched. " "We're honoured to know you and grateful for your friendship,'' the statement concluded.

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

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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 ob...