Aliko Dangote

The Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST) Wudil has been renamed and is now called Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology (ADUST), Wudil by the Kano State Executive Council which was approved after the recommendations of the university’s visitation panel.

The state’s Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, revealed this, he further explained that the approval has been transmitted to the state’s House of Assembly to study the relevant laws establishing the university and make amendments where necessary.

This was not the first time the university will be named after prominent indigenes of the state.

A former governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, named the state university after another prominent businessman from the state, Aminu Dantata. But his successor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, reversed it to its original name in 2011.

Mr. Dangote is Africa’s richest man and one of the country’s most generous philanthropists.