Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, the university’s vice chancellor, made the announcement during a press briefing in Kano on Thursday.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the university’s official commissioning is scheduled for April 27.
Mr Garba, speaking through the Chairman of the Commissioning Planning Committee, Alhaji Rabiu, stated, “KHAIRUN is now a full-fledged university.”
He stated that the 16 programmes included three allied medical science, three engineering, and ten science and computer courses.
According to him, the institution is currently a member of numerous national and worldwide university leagues, with all of the rights, privileges, intents, purposes, and expectations.
“We specifically regard the official commissioning of the university as a time of reflections over the great efforts exerted by late Khalifa Isyaku Rabiu to see to the fruition of his nobel dream of establishing a university,” Mr Garba said.
The VC said the university obtained its licence from the Federal Government in May 2022 and the National Universities Commission, NUC, with 16 approved undergraduate programmes.
“The institution has a modern and well equipped laboratories, uninterrupted electricity power supply, water, sports arena, comfortable hostel, students’ centre and a state-of-the-art library,” he noted.
Mr Garba explained that KHAIRUN also introduced two compulsory weekly courses on recitation of the Holy Qur’an and moral lessons/training.
“We believe that intellectual development must go hand-in-hand with morality and learning in itself is worthless without good character,” Mr Garba said.
