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PEN RESOURCE UNIVERSITY, GOMBE RENAMED AS NORTH-EASTERN UNIVERSITY, GOMBE. 

Today the 4th of March 2024, we have witnessed, a few minutes ago, the unveiling of our new name: NORTH-EASTERN UNIVERSITY, GOMBE, which replaces our previous name, PEN RESOURCE UNIVERSITY, GOMBE. 

This function was personally carried out by our father, His Royal Highness, Alhaji (Dr.) Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, CFR, Emir of Gombe, and Chairman Gombe State Council of Emirs and Chiefs. 

2. 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). 

3. At take-off, we decided to name the university in the image of its progenitor, the great Pen Resource Academy, Gombe for the nascent university to earn public confidence by leveraging the goodwill, integrity and excellence in standards that is meritoriously synonymous with the Academy. Thus, the name Pen Resource University, Gombe. Today, our university students and their parents/sponsors can attest to the fact that we have surpassed their expectations in terms of all standards. 

4. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen. Now, we have four (4) Faculties, twenty-seven (27) degree programmes and a Centre for African Medicinal Plants Research among others within the two (2) years of our existence. Having come this far, the university is now of age. It is therefore time for it to take its own name and chart its own independent course. 

5. Our new name: NORTH-EASTERN UNIVERSITY, GOMBE (a name we reserved for the university long before we started the processes for obtaining the operational license), is rooted in our vision to establish a university indigenous of the North-Eastern part of Nigeria in character. A university that can further develop the world by paving ways to harness the excellent brainpower, knowledge, integrity, morality, sense of responsibility, love and sacrifice for the other, 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. 

6. The task of the North-Eastern University, Gombe, is therefore very clear. It is to serve as A NEXUS FOR DEVELOPMENT, bringing together all the necessary north-eastern Nigeria’s endowments for the development of mankind. This is also what our logo symbolizes: the book and the pen symbolize our brain power and scholarly culture; the bull and fertile land symbolize our strength and our wealth; the white colour is for peace while the sky blue is indicative of our limit as the sky; and, the shield is protective of our mission and our continuous national integration as Nigerians. 

7. Distinguish Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to use this opportunity to restate our constant commitment to becoming one of the 10 best universities in Nigeria within the first ten years of our establishment. All hands are on deck. We shall be there by the grace of God.

8. Thank you. 

DR SANI JAURO

(Danlawan of Gombe)

PRO-CHANCELLOR AND FOUNDER