Tinubu Renames University of Maiduguri After Buhari

President Bola Tinubu has officially renamed the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in Borno State as Muhammadu Buhari University, Maiduguri, in honour of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari.

The announcement was made on Thursday during an expanded session of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The special session was convened in honour of Buhari, who passed away on July 13 in London after a prolonged illness.

“Before we take the prayers in honour of his [Buhari’s] memory, with this special session of the Federal Executive Council (expanded) can we adopt the naming of the University of Maiduguri with a new name, Muhammadu Buhari University, Maiduguri,” President Tinubu said, drawing a round of applause from attendees, including former ministers and Buhari’s son, Yusuf.

In a moving tribute, President Tinubu described Buhari as “a man of integrity who lived a respectful life.”

“Yet it was in the quiet and unadorned settings of his private life that his true greatness was revealed: pious without show, just without cruelty, humane without sentimentality, temperate without coldness, and sincere without guile,” Tinubu said. “His life was a rebuke to vice and a refuge for virtue.”

Buhari, a prominent figure in Nigeria’s political and military history, served as Nigeria’s military head of state from 1983 to 1985 and later as a democratically elected president from 2015 to 2023. He was buried earlier this week in a ceremony attended by local and international dignitaries.