The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, will deliver a keynote address on the Challenges of Nation Building in the 21st Century at the two-day 2nd International Conference of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Federal University, Dutse.
Spokesperson of the university, Abdullahi Yahaya Bello, who announced this on Friday in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, said the event will hold on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
He named other speakers at the event to include Professor Etannibe Alemika of Walter Sisulu University, South Africa, Professor Peter Bei Lyu of Panyapiwat Institute of Management, Thailand, and Professor Zakaria Ousman Ramadan of the Chadian Institute of Strategic Studies and Prospective Research, Ndjamena, Chad.
Bello said the conference has sub-themes on Tax Regime and Nation Building, Crime, Security and Nation Building, Democracy, National Integration and Nation-building, the Military and Nation-building, National Identity in Modern Arabic Literature, Corruption, Infrastructure and Nation-building, and Digital Economy and Nation-building.
Other topical issues slated for discussion at the Conference are Language Policy, Multilingualism and National Integration, Nation Building and Decolonisation of the Mind, Peace, Conflict Resolution and Nation-building, Socio-Economic Inequality and Nation-building, Criminal Justice and Nation-building and Environmental Politics and Nation-building.
Governor of Jigawa State, Mal. Umar Namadi is the Special Guest of Honour, while the Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Ahmad Muhammed Gumel, is the Chief Host.
Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor of Federal University Dutse, Professor Ahmad Muhammed Gumel, has proposed an Annual Staff Excellence Award to recognise and reward staff who are doing their best in their various units and departments.
Professor Gumel said the time has come to reward hardworking staff who show up every day to do their best to keep the university going, adding that recognising hard work and excellence is part of his effort to motivate staff to do more for the system.
He said there are outstanding teaching and non-teaching staff who are doing well in the university, and his administration will compile their names annually and recognise them, adding that all staff of the university must sit up because there will be reward and punishment.
