{"id":49745,"date":"2026-09-24T06:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/?post_type=university&#038;p=49745"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:15:12","slug":"abubakar-tafawa-balewa-university","status":"publish","type":"university","link":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/universities-and-colleges-directory\/nigeria\/abubakar-tafawa-balewa-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) is a federal university of technology in Bauchi, north-eastern Nigeria, named after Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria&#8217;s first and only Prime Minister. It was established in 1980 as the Federal University of Technology, Bauchi, admitting its first pre-degree and remedial students in October 1981. In 1984 it was merged with Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, becoming Abubakar Tafawa Balewa College; it regained full autonomy in 1988 under its present name. ATBU operates across the Yelwa and Gubi campuses and comprises 7 faculties plus a College of Medical Sciences, with roughly 10,000 undergraduates.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The university&#8217;s motto is &#8222;Doctrina Mater Artium&#8220; (&#8222;Education is the mother of the practical arts&#8220;), reflecting its applied, technology-focused curriculum, developed in 1980 in consultation with experts from Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notable alumni include Dikko Umaru Radda, Executive Governor of Katsina State, and Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, former Federal Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49895,"template":"","country":[645],"class_list":["post-49745","university","type-university","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-nigeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/university"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49896,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49745\/revisions\/49896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=49745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}