The Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri(UNIMAID) in Borno State, Prof. Abubakar Njodi has said the institution would not close down in spite of the blast that killed a professor and four other persons. The late Prof. Aliyu Usman Mani, a Professor of Veterinary Medicine, and the other victims were killed yesterday when a young suicide bomber detonated a bomb during the dawn (fajr) Islamic prayer at the Senior Staff Quarters of UNIMAID.
Speaking when Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole of the Nigerian Army visited UNIMAID, the Vice Chancellor said: “I can convince the Senate, the management and the university community to close the school to save lives. But if we do that, we are not helping because we have to give the security our maximum support and our support is not to join them in the battle field. If we run away, that means there is nobody they should be fighting for. We should stay and resolve it; after all, the war is about us, western education. If we stay, the terrorists will be frustrated because that is their aim.”
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