"The Department of Economics is one of the few units in Bayero University, Kano that is blessed with versatile Academic Staff and runs both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. All our staff members hope that you will enjoy an interesting and worthwhile time at the university and we look forward to working with you over the next few years. We are a department of enthusiastic economists and our research and teaching align closely to give you the best learning experience. Students are given course outline and reading list in each course at the beginning of every semester. The staff-student relationship is cordial. Lecturers are accessible and eager to assist the students. It becomes departmental culture that lecturers keep hours during which students with problems can stop-by and attend to them. There is Level Coordinator for every level who is an academic staff appointed by the department to serve as an adviser and director for that level. His main responsibility is ensuring that students register the required courses and guide them on credit load. This handbook outlines courses and requirements for admission and graduation for the students in B.Sc. Economics and Banking and Finance programmes, feel free to go to your level coordinator, if you have any question. The courses are designed to enable students to develop a variety of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that are in demand from both the public and private employers within contemporary Nigeria and outside. The student handbook cannot be exhaustive, however, and so one of its roles is to explain how to obtain more information on any given issue/topic when you need it. Many of the issues/topics covered will be greatly amplified during the Departments Induction Week (the first week of the first Semester), details of which you have been given separately. Some things however will only become relevant as your course goes on, so it is a good idea to keep referring to this handbook.
It is with this in mind that I welcome you to the Department of Economics, and challenge you to take advantage of which you have been given separately. Some things however will only become relevant as your course goes on, so it is a good idea to keep referring to this handbook. of the programmes and facilities in the Department.
Best of luck with your studies,
Prof. Shehu M. Tijjani
B.Sc.,M.Sc (Ukraine), Ph.D (Greece)
Head, Department of Economics Bayero University, Kano
