The
leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mr. Muhajid
Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university
proprietors with his establishment of a university in the neighbouring
Republic of Benin, PREMIUM TIMES reported on Friday.
Asari-Dokubo, who already owns a soccer
academy in the West African country and another one in Abuja, Nigeria,
said the university, which will be known as King Amachree African
University, KAAU, had already been accredited to commence degree
programmes beginning September 2014.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, Asari-Dokubo
disclosed in an interview in Abuja that the proposed university, named
after his ancestor, was a product of his two existing institutions in
Benin Republic, namely King Amachree Automobile/ICT Royal Academy and
King Amachree Arts Academy. Both of them, he added, currently award
Diploma to their students.
Asari-Dokubo said he chose to establish
the institutions in Benin Republic because he did not only live there,
but had adopted it as his country.
“What we have now, we are awarding only
diploma now. By next September, Insha Allah, the university will start,”
said Asari-Dokubo, who dropped out of the University of Calabar.
“For now we have King Amachree
Automobile/ICT Royal Academy and King Amachree Arts Academy. Two of them
were merged. We have merged the two of them into King Amachree African
University. King Amachree is my great ancestor. He was King of the
Kingdom of new Calabar.”
On his soccer academy, Asari-Dokubo, 5o,
an indigene of Rivers State, who refused to be tagged a former
militant, said it was established to train the youth in soccer free of
charge.
“We plan to engage the youths. It is
free. We have a soccer academy in Abuja and we have another one in
Republic of Benin,” he said.
More Nigerians are forced to go to Benin
Republic, Ghana, Togo and other neigbhouring countries to acquire
education due to the incessant labour disputes and industrial actions
within the Nigerian university system as well as the deplorable state of
education in the country.
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