{"id":74410,"date":"2025-08-28T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74410"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:31:13","slug":"asuu-opposes-plan-to-rename-unimaid-after-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/asuu-opposes-plan-to-rename-unimaid-after-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU Opposes Plan to Rename UNIMAID After Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has rejected the Federal Government\u2019s plan to rename the institution after former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a congress meeting in Maiduguri, UNIMAID ASUU chairman, Dr. Abubakar Mshelia Saidu, described the proposal as \u201cprovocative, unacceptable, and deeply offensive\u201d to academic freedom, institutional integrity, and democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the University of Maiduguri\u2019s name embodies decades of scholarship, sacrifice, and service to the Northeast and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Saidu warned that renaming the institution without consulting the governing council, staff, students, alumni, or host community would be a \u201crecipe for disaster.\u201d \u201cTo erase that legacy without engagement is to insult the very soul of this institution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has rejected the Federal Government\u2019s plan to rename the institution after former President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking after a congress meeting in Maiduguri, UNIMAID ASUU chairman, Dr. Abubakar Mshelia Saidu, described the proposal as \u201cprovocative, unacceptable, and deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74412,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74410\/revisions\/74412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}