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A team from the National Universities Commission (NUC), on a resource verification visit to the Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy at Skyline University Nigeria (SUN), has reiterated the importance of resource verification in the validation of academic Programmemes in Nigeria. Hajia Maryam Sali, the NUC’s Director of Accreditation who led a 5-man team on an official visit to the office of the Vice-Chancellor, stated that the visit was about evaluating the academic resource of Nursing and Physiotherapy and ensuring that it conforms to expectations of the regulatory body. As she puts it, “We received an application from Skyline University Nigeria to commence Programmemes in Nursing and Physiotherapy, we are here to look at the physical and human resources that are required in the areas of the Programmemes”. She further stressed that the team’s assignment was to look at what was available in the Department and make necessary suggestions to speed up the commencement of the Programmemes. Earlier, while receiving the delegation, the Vice-Chancellor of Skyline University Nigeria, Professor Ajith Kumar V.V welcomed the NUC team and thanked them for their guidance. According to him, the university is proud of what the NUC stands for, particularly on improving the existing standards of universities in the country, both academically and physically, to contribute to the body of knowledge. He assured the visiting team an unfettered access to information regarding the Programmemes, taking into account that the suggestions received from the exercise would validate the quality of the university’s standards so that SUN can improve on matching excellence. Other members of the university management present, include the Registrar, Mr. Haruna Aliyu, and the University Librarian, Mr. Kabiru Danladi Garba. Other members of the Commission’s 5-man resource verification team includes Professor Sunday Ajayi, the Nursing Resource Person from the University of Jos, Proffessor Rufa’I Ahmed, the Physiotherapy Resource Person from the Kaduna State University, Mr. Musa Alkali Usman and Mr. Hayatuddeen Umar, both NUC’s Verifications Officers.

A team from the National Universities Commission (NUC), on a resource verification visit to the Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy at Skyline University Nigeria (SUN), has reiterated the importance of resource verification in the validation of academic Programmemes in Nigeria. Hajia Maryam Sali, the NUC’s Director of Accreditation who led a 5-man team on an official visit to the office of the Vice-Chancellor, stated that the visit was about evaluating the academic resource of Nursing and Physiotherapy and ensuring that it conforms to expectations of the regulatory body. As she puts it, “We received an application from Skyline University Nigeria to commence Programmemes in Nursing and Physiotherapy, we are here to look at the physical and human resources that are required in the areas of the Programmemes”. She further stressed that the team’s assignment was to look at what was available in the Department and make necessary suggestions to speed up the commencement of the Programmemes. Earlier, while receiving the delegation, the Vice-Chancellor of Skyline University Nigeria, Professor Ajith Kumar V.V welcomed the NUC team and thanked them for their guidance. According to him, the university is proud of what the NUC stands for, particularly on improving the existing standards of universities in the country, both academically and physically, to contribute to the body of knowledge. He assured the visiting team an unfettered access to information regarding the Programmemes, taking into account that the suggestions received from the exercise would validate the quality of the university’s standards so that SUN can improve on matching excellence. Other members of the university management present, include the Registrar, Mr. Haruna Aliyu, and the University Librarian, Mr. Kabiru Danladi Garba. Other members of the Commission’s 5-man resource verification team includes Professor Sunday Ajayi, the Nursing Resource Person from the University of Jos, Proffessor Rufa’I Ahmed, the Physiotherapy Resource Person from the Kaduna State University, Mr. Musa Alkali Usman and Mr. Hayatuddeen Umar, both NUC’s Verifications Officers.

In the past three years, Skyline University Nigeria (SUN) has put a spotlight on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to reach millions of people across the country. Recently, the University commenced a 10-Day training on web designing course for the physically challenged as a continuation of the 2020-2021 CSR activity with the Site Savers, Part of whom were awarded Diploma in Computer Science earlier in March 2021, under the ‘Educate Community Programmeme’ of the university. It would be recalled that the Educate Community Programmeme was launched as part of the university’s CSR project to help physically challenged youths educationally, mentally and financially as well as to drive national impact on education. The training will run from 30th August – 10th September 2021 at the university campus computer laboratory. The training will introduce the participants to the process of designing and developing websites. Unlike web development, which is mainly about functionality, Web design will include aesthetics, which is concerned about the look and feel of the site as well as its functionality. The tools used include HTML, Style it with CSS, and then make it interactive using JavaScript.   With these basics of web design, the students can gain knowledge on how websites are laid out by browsers. It will also give an idea about the Document Object Model, which the JavaScript code will interact with, to dynamically change the web pages, allowing students to design and create a personal web page and demonstrate their skills by making their website. Dr. Vijay Arputharaj, a Senior Lecturer of the Department of Information & Communications Technology, Skyline University Nigeria, also an instructor of the training Programmeme, while highlighting some of the progress expected of the participants, stated that the Programme will be covered by using a mix of teaching methodologies. These methodologies include classroom lectures, practical sessions, lab projects, and group activities along with normal lectures.

Students of Skyline University Nigeria (SUN) were recently exposed to the fundamentals of academic and career success when two experts, Professor Rabia Sa’id, from the Department of Physics, Bayero University Kano and Dr. Meenakshi Anantram, CEO of Razzmatazz Entertainment Networks, exposed them to some of the secrets in their career journey. They said this much during a webinar organized by the University, under the coordination of Ms. Nafisa Inuwa, the University’s Event Coordinator. The Webinar with the theme, ‘How I Got There’ was organized on 30th August 2021 to allow students to understand some of the challenges encountered on the journey towards building a successful career. This will allow them to develop some of the skills that can reduce un- and underemployment, increase productivity, and improve the state of the economy. It will as well, bring positive effects in the life of an individual. Professor Rabia who gave a systematic review of her professional portfolio stated that the answer to having a successful career development is in the understanding of the value that one will bring in terms of skills and competencies. According to her, “Apart from academic grades, certain skills and competencies will be required to help the students make up a successful career”. She highlighted that some of these skills will be earned through volunteering and community services participation. While stating the importance of the theme of the webinar, Dr Meenakshi advised the students to work on themselves, their body language and have a good knowledge of the internet, which will help them to be proficient in learning. She highlighted empathy and sympathy, which will help them to improve communication, boost creative thinking and strengthen leadership skills. Dr. Meenakshi added that when opportunity meets preparation, success is inevitable. Earlier, in his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of Skyline University Nigeria, Professor Ajith Kumar V.V, who welcomed the guest speakers, stated that the platform was created to inform the students of the university about the happenings in the corporate and business environment. This he stated, is in line with the objectives of the university to graduate job creators, rather than job seekers. He enjoined the participants to pay keen attention to the important lessons by the speakers. The webinar was attended by management, Staff and Students of the university, as well as members of the general public.

The Vice-Chancellor of Skyline University Nigeria (SUN), Professor Ajith Kumar V.V, being accompanied by the Registrar, Mr. Haruna Aliyu and the Head of Corporate Affairs Department, Engr. Bashir Garba has on Monday, 30th August 2021, paid a courtesy visit to the Kano State Polytechnic. The visit was organized to congratulate the newly appointed Rector, Dr. Kabir Bello Dungurawa. During his opening remarks, Prof. Ajith congratulated the newly appointed head of the Kano State Polytechnic. He stated that “Being part of the SUN family for three years, I hope that this visit will improve our cordial relationship to maintain progress at all levels of development”. On behalf of the SUN management and students, the Vice-Chancellor expressed his happiness on the Rector’s appointment. Dr. Kabir in his response, while reeling out his contributions to Skyline University Nigeria in the past, appreciated the Management, Staff and Students of the University for their Congratulatory Messages towards his new appointment. He disclosed that his 7 point agenda was carefully planned to ensure that Kano institutions under Kano state polytechnic remained progressive in academic Programmemes, will roll out plans for collaborations with Skyline University Nigeria. 

Students of Skyline University Nigeria (SUN) have qualified to represent the university in the Global Competition Award of the Wadwani Foundation NextGen Activate Programmeme. SUN sealed her qualification ticket as she emerged 8th position Milestone 4 (M4) and 2nd position in the transformative award category for her renewable idea “Alternative Power Nigeria – Changing life With Light”, an entry submitted by a 200 level student of Economics, Mr. Haruna Lawan Baffa and a 100 level student of Software Engineering Ms. Juwairiyya Ahmad Lamido. The students were mentored by Ms. Jyoti Rajwar, a Lecturer II in the Department of Microbiology. The competition which took place recently, was a 10 weeks online learning Programmeme (29th March – 5th June 2021) that was focused on creating potential real ventures, validation and practice implementation. The competition featured 29 teams from different parts of the world, who demonstrated experiential and immersive digital learning Programmeme under the banner of the cohort of Latin America & West Africa. Evaluation of the competition was done based on four milestones covered by the teams throughout the competition. The milestone includes exploring, discovering, a market survey and activation. After every milestone, the teams were asked to give a pitch, venture website and business model related to their practice venture which was evaluated by Ambassadors, successful entrepreneurs and CEOs around the world. The Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging markets by driving the creation of 10 million jobs by 2030, through large-scale initiatives in entrepreneurship, small business growth, innovation, and upskilling a new generation of students into entrepreneurs.  Next-Generation Fellowship Programme has been designed to inspire and educate young high-school and university students to become rising entrepreneurs focused on social and environmental transformation, driving job creation and economic growth across the world, leveraging the power of new technologies and digitalization.