A wildfire on Tuesday razed down parts and offices of the Katsina State-owned Umar Musa Yar’adua University, destroying some parts of the buildings including some section of faculty of Education, the office of Head of library and information Science department in the faculty, others include the examination office and some lecturer’s rooms.
The cause of the Fire outbreak is still not known but some onlookers said it might be due to an electrical fault
The Katsina state Governor, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari who visited the institution to see things for himself in the company of the state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu and the special Adviser on Higher Education, Alhaji Bashir Ruwan Godiya, directed that a committee be set up to investigate the cause of the fire while promising to repay damages caused by the inferno
Meanwhile, Governor, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari has urged Indigenes of Katsina residents in Lagos to seek for the admission of their children in tertiary educational institutions in the state.
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