Niamey Varsity Lecturers Get 350 Laptops

The Prime Minister of Niger Seyni Oumarou on Friday handed over 350 laptops to the Niamey-based Abdou Moumouni University officials as part of implementing the “one lecturer-come-researcher one computer” initiative, APA observed.

Handing the tools to the university, Oumarou said this falls within the framework of the “reviving higher education and research action in Niger.”

“The point of business to help our university better integrate into the Bachelor-Masters-Doctorate system, but also enable it to adapt to the challenges of development and globalization,” he added.

Oumarou said his government is committed to facilitating Internet connection in schools, university institutes and faculties, urging Niger’s researchers to “conduct greater brainstorming on how to develop higher education, including distance learning.”

The granting of a laptop to each teacher and researcher also aims to “develop a tool that will assist in updating knowledge,” said Professor Alassane Yénikoye, the Vice-Chancellor of the Niamey University.

The next challenge, he said, is to “to set up internet connection in each office, laboratory and even amphitheatre of the University”.

Created in the early 1970s, Niamey’s only university hosts some 8,443 students in five faculties and a number of colleges.

Source African Press Agency

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