{"id":49716,"date":"2026-09-24T06:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/?post_type=university&#038;p=49716"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:34:33","slug":"benue-state-university","status":"publish","type":"university","link":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/universities-and-colleges-directory\/nigeria\/benue-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue State University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benue State University, Makurdi, now officially the Reverend Father Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi, is a state-owned university established by Benue State University Edict No. 1 of 1991, under Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu, the state&rsquo;s Executive Governor and the university&rsquo;s first Visitor. The university took off in the 1992\/93 academic year with four faculties: Arts, Education, Science, and Social Sciences, created to complement the specialized work of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi. Law and Management Sciences followed in 1993\/94, a postgraduate school in 1998\/99, the College of Health Sciences in 2003\/04, and Environmental Sciences in 2014\/15, bringing the university to 9 faculties and colleges, with a student population of roughly 32,000.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The university&rsquo;s motto is \u00ab\u00a0Scientia Liberatio Populorum\u00a0\u00bb (Knowledge for the Liberation of the People). It has received World Bank grant support to establish a Centre for Food Technology and Research (CEFTER), addressing higher-education needs across West and Central Africa. Its College of Health Sciences has graduated multiple sets of medical doctors since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49880,"template":"","country":[645],"class_list":["post-49716","university","type-university","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-nigeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/university"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49881,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49716\/revisions\/49881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=49716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}