Tribune
30 August 2011
The Ijaw Foundation (IF), the apex organisation of the Ijaw community in the Diaspora at its annual convention in New Jersey, United states of America, has raised over N28 million to support the new Federal University at Otuoke (FUO), in Bayelsa State.
FUO is the first federal university located in the heartland of the Niger Delta Ijaw Communities near Oloibiri where crude oil was first discovered in 1958 along the entire West African Gulf of Guinea.
In his opening remarks at the three-day convention, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr Reuben Mietamuno Jaja, stated that the purpose of the fund raising was to build an international constituency for the university by establishing an ‘ Ijaw Foundation Educational Trust Fund’ to supplement the resources of the university.
The Ijaw Foundation (IF), the apex organisation of the Ijaw community in the Diaspora at its annual convention in New Jersey, United states of America, has raised over N28 million to support the new Federal University at Otuoke (FUO), in Bayelsa State.
FUO is the first federal university located in the heartland of the Niger Delta Ijaw Communities near Oloibiri where crude oil was first discovered in 1958 along the entire West African Gulf of Guinea.
In his opening remarks at the three-day convention, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr Reuben Mietamuno Jaja, stated that the purpose of the fund raising was to build an international constituency for the university by establishing an ‘ Ijaw Foundation Educational Trust Fund’ to supplement the resources of the university.
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