Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBUL) is a university in

Niger State Niger is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria and the largest state in the country. Niger state has three political zones, zone A,B and C. The state's capital is at Minna. Other major cities are Bida, Kontagora and Suleja. It was fo ...

, central Nigeria. It had its first

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in 2014. It was named after the former Nigeria Head of State General

Ibrahim Babangida Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born 17 August, 1941) is a retired Nigerian Army general and politician. He served as military president of Nigeria from 1985 until his resignation in 1993. He rose through the ranks to serve from 1984 to 1985 as Ch ...

. The university started academic activities in the 2005/2006 academic session.

Faculties

* Natural Sciences * Management and Social Sciences * Applied Sciences and Technology * Education and Arts * Agriculture * Languages and Communication Studies * College of Health Sciences

Institutes

* Institutes of Maritime Studies

Endowments & Research

In 2020, IBBUL won a prize grant of $450,000 from the

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(IDRC) grant of Canada. The project has the

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(TISS), Mumbai,

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, as the lead partner, with IBBUL and

Samtse College of Education Samtse College of Education, a constituent college of the Royal University of Bhutan, is one of the two institutes in the country offering undergraduate degree programmes in education and post graduate diplomas in education. The college is in S ...

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and UNESCO office of Bangladesh, in the partnership. In 2021, the

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Limited is a for profit oil company in Nigeria. Formerly a government-owned corporation, it was transformed from a corporation to a limited liability company in July 2022. NNPC Limited is the only entity licensed to operate in the country' ...

endowed the University with a High Impact Geological Research Laboratory.

Gallery

File:Ibbu.lapai Library.jpg, The School Library File:Ibbu.lapai Hostel 2.jpg, Students Hostel File:Ibbu.lapai Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology.jpg, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology File:Ibbu.lapai Twin Lecture Théâtre.jpg, Twin Lecture Théâtre File:Ibbu.lapai Fire Department.jpg, Fire Department File:Ibbu.lapai E-Learning.jpg, E-Learning centre File:Ibbu.lapai Auditorium.jpg, Lecture Auditorium File:Ibbu.lapai School Clinic.jpg, University Clinic

References

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