The Governing Council of Federal University Dutsin- TMa (FUDMA), under the Chairmanship of HE Ali Abubakar Jatau, has approved the promotion of 609 Senior Teaching and Non-teaching Staff of the University.
This is contained in a statement from the Director, Directorate of Human Resources Management, Mr. Lawal Yakub Olarewaju. The promotion, which takes effect from October 1, 2026, marks the end of the 2026 Promotion Exercise which started from the issuance of promotion call memo by the Registry Department. A breakdown of the promotion indicates that 16 and 19 senior teaching staff have been promoted to the ranks of professors and readers respectively, subject to favourable external assessments. have received messages of congratulations through their emails, on behalf of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Mohammed Khalid Othman. They have also been notified that their promotion letters were ready for collection from Friday, October 2, 2026,
in the Directorate of Human Resources Management. This is the first time in the history of the University that promotion letters are being issued in the first working day of October. It could be recalled that the 2026 Promotion Exercise, the first to be superintended by the current Vice Chancellor, Prof. M.K. Othman, started in June this year, when the Registry Department issued a memo for all Faculties, Departments and Units, to kick-start the process through the submission of the lists of recommended and non-recommended staff for promotion.