Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has charged the Adamawa State University to find a way to utilize the sunlight that abound in the state for creation of energy to power the economy.

The governor, speaking on Saturday at the 15th/16th/17th combined convocation of the state-owned university in Mubi, reminded the university that he had challenged it earlier on the same matter and that it must take the matter with utmost seriousness henceforth.

“I specifically challenged the university on the need to harness our natural solar radiation to generate energy,” Fintiri said, stressing that he had not received any positive response even after endowing a professorial chair to facilitate the necessary research.

He said his challenges to the university are as serious as any of the projects of his government, insisting that the university must act on such challenges.

The governor threatened actions that the university may not find pleasant, saying that if the university management is not ready to confront his specific challenges, he needed to know.

“Perhaps, I have to hire those who can,” he warned, stressing that solution-based knowledge is what Adamawa State, Nigeria and the world needs to advance.

“Any knowledge that cannot solve a problem is knowledge doomed for extinction,” he asserted.

Earlier during the ADSU combined convocation, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Augustine Clement explained that among a total of 9,225 graduating students, 42 made first class degrees; 1,734 obtained second class upper; 5,252 second class lower; and 1,842 third class degrees.

The VC announced also that the National Universities Commission, NUC, has granted approval to the university to start seven new programs, namely Cyber Security, Information Systems, History Education, English Education, Public Relations, Journalism & Media Studies, and Educational Management.

Fintiri charges Adamama varsity to create solar-powered electricity