Professor Abdullahi Bala has been sworn in as the new Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State.
This is the first time the 35- year- old institution would be changing its leadership without any rancour .
The inauguration of the immediate past Vice Chancellor, Professor Musbau Akanji had to be postponed in 2012 pending resolution of limitations and various degrees of protestations against his appointment.
The new Vice Chancellor, Professor Abdullahi Bala pledged to operate a open door policy adding that his administration would be fair and work for justice for all.
He expressed his desire to provide accommodation for 75 per cent of the students in order to adequately expose them to the university culture and to improve the internally generated revenue of the University to augment what the federal government provides.
Bala who lamented that the relationship between the institution and its host is tenuous and characterized by mutual suspicion stressed that there would be a paradigm shift to ensure the relationship becomes more organic and mutually beneficial to both communities.