In a strategic alliance that would fast-track broadband penetration in the North West of the country, a body known as Sokoto Research and Education Network (SokREN) has been formed.
Ten higher institutions from the region at a weeklong workshop sponsored by the World Bank attended the workshop where the idea for the body was conceived.
A communiqué issued to that effect after the workshop and signed by Ahmed Isa Chafe of Usmanu Danfodyo University, the lead institution in this regional effort towards the emergence of National Research and Education Network noted that the effort is for the good of the region.
The institutions joined in the communiqué are Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto; Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero; Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto; Federal College Education Technical, Gusau; Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto; Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birbin Kebbi; Sokoto State Polytechnic, Sokoto; Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, Talata Mafara; Federal Polytechnic, Kaura Namoda and School of Nursing Sciences, Sokoto.
SokREN and counterpart Eko-Konnect in Lagos are the first of regional networks leveraging proximity to establish physical networks to be connected by a national backbone into the Nigerian Research and Education Network.
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