PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has renamed the University of Maiduguri in Borno State after the late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The announcement was made today during an expanded session of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, convened in tribute to the former leader.
“In honour of his memory, with this special session of the Federal Executive Council, can we adopt the renaming of the University of Maiduguri to Muhammadu Buhari University, Maiduguri?” President Tinubu proposed at the close of the meeting.
His suggestion received enthusiastic applause from attendees, including ministers who served under Buhari and the late president’s son, Yusuf.
During the tribute session, Tinubu praised Buhari as a man of unwavering integrity, noting that his private life reflected humility, justice, and sincerity.
“In the simplicity of his personal life, his true greatness was evident—pious without pretense, just without harshness, and sincere without guile,” he said. “His life was a refuge for virtue and a rebuke to vice.”
Buhari passed away in London on July 13 after a prolonged illness. He was laid to rest on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by dignitaries from within and outside Nigeria.
He remains Nigeria’s second-longest-serving leader, first taking power as a military head of state from 1983 to 1985 and later serving two terms as a democratically elected president from 2015 to 2023.