BREAKING: FG renames UNIMAID after former President Buhari

The Federal Government has renamed the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) after the late former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, on his facebook page, disclosed that President Bola Tinubu made the announcement during the Special Session of tributes of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in honour of late Buhari.

The institution will now be known as Muhammadu Buhari University, Maiduguri.

President Tinubu stated that the decision was a show of national gratitude for Buhari’s decades of public service, citing his strong ties to the North-East area and his lasting impact on Nigeria’s democratic and military history.

Presiding over the session, President Tinubu delivered a stirring tribute, celebrating Buhari’s life as one defined by discipline, moral fortitude, and unwavering patriotism.

The President described him as “a good man, a decent man, an honourable man” whose legacy of discipline, patriotism, and moral uprightness would endure for generations.

“President Buhari was not a perfect man, no leader is, but he was, in every sense of the word, a good man, a decent man, an honourable man. His record will be debated, as all legacies are, but the character he brought to public life, the moral force he carried, the incorruptible standard he represented, will not be forgotten. His was a life lived in full service to Nigeria, and in fidelity to God,” he said.