Abdu Gusau Polytechnic is a state government polytechnic located in

Talata Mafara Talata Mafara is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Talata Mafara, about 15 km from the Bakolori Dam on the Sokoto River. The town lies on the southern edge of the major irrigation project ...

Zamfara State Zamfara (; ; Adlam script, Adlam: ) is a States of Nigeria, state in northwestern Nigeria. The capital of Zamfara state is Gusau and its current List of Governors of Zamfara State, governor is Dauda Lawal. Until 1996, the area was part of Soko ...

, Nigeria.

History

The polytechnic was established in 1992 after the former governor of

Sokoto State Sokoto ( Hausa: ; Fula: , ''Leydi Sokoto'') is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the extreme northwest of the country. It is bounded by Republic of the Niger to the north and west for 363 km (226 miles), and the states of Zamf ...

Yahaya Abdulkarim Malam Yahaya Abdulkarim (born 21 August 1944) is a Nigerian politician who was governor of Sokoto State, between January 1992 and November 1993, during General Ibrahim Babangida's attempted transition to democracy. After the return to democracy i ...

signed a bill that established the 'Talata Mafara Polythecnic'. The Sokoto state government renamed the Polytechnic to 'Abdu Gusau Polytechnic' in February, 1995. This was done in honor of the late engineer

Abdu Gusau Abdu Gusau, Garkuwan Sokoto, MBE, OON (1918–1994), was a Nigerian civil engineer, and statesman who served as the Garkuwa of Sokoto until his death in 1994. He was the Chief estate engineer for Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 1967 to 19 ...

who died in November, 1994, in recognition of his contribution to the development of the State. Zamfara state of Nigeria was created by a Federal decree in 1996, and this necessitated the relocation of the polytechnic to a new permanent site in Talata Mafara. The Sokoto state government was no longer responsible for it, and it wasn't legally possible to have an institution belonging to Zamfara state located in Sokoto.

As of 2020

Abdu Gusau Polytechnic is now a fully developed institution offering programmes in all fields of human endeavour. It is now set to meet up with the challenges of the universal technological advancements. the Polytechnic has 19 departments, and 2524 students, offering programmes in several fields of study. The institution currently offers ND's (National Diploma) in courses such as; mass communication, banking & finance, civil law, building engineering, electrical engineering and HND's (Higher National Diploma) in office technology management, business, bio chemistry, computer science and statistics.

Courses offered

National Diploma Programme

* ND Business Administration * ND Office Technology Management * ND Mass Communication * ND Banking & Finance, * ND Accounting * ND Science Laboratory Technology * ND Computer Science * ND Computer Engineering, Statistics, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, * ND Civil Engineering * ND Building engineering * ND Quantity survey * ND Electrical Engineering * ND Mechatronic * ND Library Science, * Diploma In Civil Law * Diploma in Sharia and Civil Law

Higher National Diploma Programmes

* HND Business Administration * HND Office Technology Management * HND Accounting, Applied Science * HND Microbiology * HND Biochemistry * HND Environmental Sciences * HND Physics * HND Computer Science * HND Statistics * Higher Diploma in Arabic and Islamic Sharia

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