
History of ACENTDFB
Following the call for proposal for the establishment of Africa Centres of Excellence by the World Bank and Association of African Universities in August 2013, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria submitted four proposals in three thematic areas {Agriculture, Health and STEM (Science Technology Education and Mathematics)}. The proposal for the establishment of Africa Centre of Excellence for Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biotechnology (ACENTDFB), headed by Prof Andrew Jonathan Nok (late) was one of the ten successful Centres in Nigeria that took off in 2014.
The Africa Centre of Excellence for Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biotechnology is administratively housed at the Centre for Biotechnology Research and Training (CBRT) while the degree programmes are domiciled in the Department of Biochemistry. The research facilities of the Centre are located in the CBRT, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Zoology and the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, among others. The postgraduate degree programmes (MSc and PhD Biotechnology and PGD Forensic Biotechnology) was approved at the 463rd Meeting of the Senate of Ahmadu Bello University on 24th April, 2014.