Garoua prepares to welcome the University of Ngaoundéré annex

While the project for the creation of a State University in Garoua is in the pipeline, the regional capital of the North would experience earlier than expected the traits of a University City.

Beginning October, the city will host an annex of the University of Ngaoundéré, via a Faculty of legal and Political Sciences whose first year students will now receive courses in Garoua, as well as all the professional Masters of the University for all the three northern regions. With a student population estimated at 2,000, it will begin with 700 to 1000 students.

This was in order to prepare the next upcoming event that the Governor of the region of the North, John Abate Edi'i, presented at the Garoua wildlife school on Saturday. Members of government originating from the region, the administrative and municipal authorities, elected officials and regional leaders took part in this conference. At the meeting, a point was made on the needs expressed by the University of Ngaoundéré to enable the effectiveness of a back-to-school in Garoua this month of October, and availability offered by Garoua in response.

Specifically, it was to find offices for off-site administration of this annex, the classrooms and the penalty payment for teachers housing. The current premises of the commune Garoua 1 district will thus house administrative services. Two amphitheaters were also put at the disposal of the University, namely Ecole de Faune de Garoua and the private University Institute, Vikram Dewa, situated on the road to Gaschiga. Infrastructure that complement the modern and equipped ten classrooms of the protestant College of Djamboutou, were also provided at the disposal of the University for tutorials.

The issue of housing for students poses a problem for now, since it will also need to consider the construction of halls (for students not resident in Garoua). Making symbolic gesture by announcing that he would make available 20 rooms, the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma urged the elites of the region to contribute, "because the state cannot do everything."

Instruction was given to economic operators in the city put in charge of the administrative authorities to have plots, which should allow the construction of mini-cites, following a plan, provided by the University of Ngaoundéré.