Northeastern University establishes Centre for African Medicinal Plant Research

The North Eastern University, Gombe state, has established the Centre for African Medicinal Plant Research to save the lives of so many people in Africa.

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This was revealed at a press conference by the Pro-Chancellor of the North Eastern University, Dr. Sani Jauro, shortly after the official unveiling of the name of the university from Pen Resource University, by the Royal Father of Gombe State, His Royal Highness Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III.

Dr. Jauro said the centre has a lot of resources, including a specialized equipment laboratory, which has started testing African medicinal plants to establish their efficacy, and toxicity to know if they are harmful.

He told journalists that the university also intended to interface with the pharmaceutical industry and follow all due processes for approval, so that the natural endowment in the North East, (medicinal plants), could be produced in commercial quantity.

“The aim was for the North Eastern University to use the natural resources that abound in the area and fill markets in Africa with the products so that Nigeria would cease to be a consumer nation.

“And the university is going to lead in this fight to make our people realize the potential that God has endowed them with,” said Dr. Sani Jauro.

He said the management of the institution had decided to name the school the North Eastern University, long before the processes for obtaining the operational license began, which is rooted in the vision to establish a university indigenous to the North-Eastern part of Nigeria in character.

Dr. Jauro envisioned a university that could further develop the world by paving ways to harness excellent brainpower, knowledge, integrity, morality, sense of responsibility, love and sacrifice for human and financial strengths. Fertile land pregnant with oil, gas and solid minerals, as well as the traditional sciences and technology handed down by our progenitors but, neglected over time.

He said the task of the university was to serve as a Nexus for development, by bringing together all the necessary North Eastern Nigeria’s endowments for the development of mankind.

The Pro-Chancellor of the North Eastern University said the two-year-old university had over 1, 000 students, with four faculties, 27 degree programmes and the Centre for African Medicinal Plants Research among others.

“With this he believes it is time for the school to be weaned by the Pen Resource Academy and to take its own name and chart its own independent course.

“This university is an offshoot of Pen Resource Academy, Gombe (an excellent institutional name by all standards). It is on record that Pen Resource Academy has carved a niche for itself in excellent academic, moral and ethical standards in the North-Eastern sub-region and the nation at large. And, to the glory of God, it has given birth to NORTH-EASTERN UNIVERSITY, GOMBE (formerly, Pen Resource University, Gombe),” Dr. Jauro said.