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The Federal University Lokoja, popularly known as Fulokoja, is a federal university in the confluence city of Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, North-Central Nigeria. Lokoja lies at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers.
The Federal University Lokoja was established in February 2011 by the Federal Government of Nigeria as a result of indispensable need to create more universities in the country.
Faculties
Faculty of Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Social Science
Faculty of Management Science
Faculty of Education
The Federal University Lokoja was established along with other eight (8) new Federal universities on the 16th February, 2011 following a pronouncement by the former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Soon afterwards, a Vice-Chancellor and Registrar in the persons of Professor Abdulmumini Hassan Rafindadi and Mrs. Habiba Anavoza Adeiza were appointed. The current Vice-Chancellor is Professor Angela Freeman Miri since 25th February, 2016 while the current Registrar is Mr. Usman Suleman Obansa. The University is sited at Lokoja, the Capital city of Kogi State of Nigeria, in the North Central political zone FULokoja.
OUR MISSION AND VISION
Mission Statement
To train employable graduates through competency-based teaching, applied research and practical community service to the catchment area, Africa and the world.
Our Vision
To be the best among the nine newly established Federal universities in Nigeria in 2011 and one of the top ten ranking universities in Africa.
LOKOJA AT A GLANCE
Lokoja, the capital of Kogi state, was carved out of former Kwara and Benue States in 1991. The town and its suburb also constitute the Kogi LGA. It lies on latitude 7o49’ N and longitude 6o44’ E at an altitude of 45-125 m, on the western bank of the Niger River, close to its confluence with the Benue River. It is some 160 km south of the new federal capital, Abuja, and straddles the strategic roads to at least five geopolitical zones out of the six such zones in the country. The terrain of the region comprises dissected undulating plains on the one hand, and lofty hill masses and mesas on the other. The plains have developed on the hummock of Basement Complex, due to the removal of the overburden Cretaceous sediments by erosion, while the hill masses and mesas have formed from the sedimentary formation, because of their resistant lateritic/ironstone capping. Lokoja, which lies on a plain element bordering the Niger River, is sandwiched between the Niger River and one of the main high plateau ridges, the mount Patti. The ridge, which is star-shaped, reach an altitude of 400 m, and together with the Niger River, had streamlined the Lokoja town to a linear pattern.
The annual rainfall is about 1150 mm. Rains begin, on average, in March and peak in June to September, while the dry season begins at about November. Every month has an average temperature close to 300C. The weather is perpetually damp due to high sensible temperature promoted by high humidity. The Niger and its main tributaries are characterized by flash flood superimposed on perennial flow. The Niger floods at Lokoja begin in July, peaks in October, and finishes by December. The smaller streams on the other hand are characterized by flash flow superimposed on rainy season flow, or simply flash flow only during and for a short time after run-off-producing storms. The groundwater resources so far located in the area occur in a perched form, and that explains the high failure rate of wells and boreholes located intuitively Federal University Lokoja.
Historically, Lokoja is the first settlement of the British in Nigeria. It was the capital of the British northern protectorate and, by extension, remained a convenient administrative town for the British colonial government after the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates into one country called Nigeria in 1914. Lokoja served as a prominent centre for slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. It later served as a centre for freedom when Samuel Ajayi Crowther spearheaded anti-slavery crusade in Nigeria and erected the Iron of liberty at a spot where slaves were set free in Lokoja. As the major inland port for European companies, Lokoja served as a commercial rendezvous for its agricultural region throughout most part of the 19th century.
