About Us

The Confluence University of Science and Technology is situated along Okene – Lokoja – Abuja Road in Osara Town, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State. The University is located at a geographical coordinate of 7°40’38.6″N 6°24’59.7″E, which is about 40 km to the State capital, Lokoja and 25 km to the commercial city of the State, Okene.
The location of the University had historically always hosted a training institution. A Farm Centre, one of the agricultural training centres in Northern Nigeria, was founded in 1958. It was later converted to the Campus of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin as the School of Mining. Upon creation of Kogi State, it was converted to the Campus of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja as School of Engineering until its relocation to its permanent site nearby. The School of Basic Studies of the Polytechnic was the last institution that was relocated to the Confluence University of Science and Technology for its take-off in 2021.
The University can be accessed from the Abuja city centre by road, which takes about two hours and thirty minutes. The nearest airport, the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja is about 240 km and takes 2 hours and 30 minutes to drive to the Campus.
The Campus of the University is planned on a total land mass of 400 hectares of land for its permanent site, enough for all the facilities planned for the University at its ultimate development.
Kogi State is in the North Central region of Nigeria and is popularly called the Confluence State because of the confluence of River Niger and River Benue, and its capital is Lokoja, which is the first administrative capital of modern-day Nigeria.

The University derived its name from this natural feature in the State. Kogi State covers 29,833 square kilometres, which the State ranked 13th largest Nigerian State. There are three main ethnic groups and languages in Kogi: Igala, Ebira, and Okun with others such as Bassa Nge, a people of Nupe extraction in Lokoja and Bassa Local Government Area, Bassa-Komo of Bassa Local Government Area, Gwari, Kakanda, Oworo, Ogori, Magongo, Idoma and the Nupe people of Eggan community under Lokoja Local Government.
Kogi State consists of twenty-one (21) local government areas. They are: Adavi, Ajaokuta, Ankpa, Bassa, Dekina, Ibaji, Idah, Igalamela-Odolu, Ijumu, Kabba/Bunu, Koton Karfe, Lokoja, Mopa-Muro, Ofu, Ogori/Magongo, Okehi, Okene, Olamaboro, Omala, Yagba East and Yagba West
Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. There are many Farm produces from the State notably coffee, cocoa, palm oil, cashews, groundnuts, maize, cassava, yam, rice, and melon.
Mineral resources include Coal, Limestone, Iron Ore, Petroleum, and Casseterite (Tin Ore) and a host of others. The largest iron and steel industry in Nigeria, Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, and one of the largest cement factories in Africa, the Obajana Cement Factory is located in the State.
Kogi State is home to many higher institutions. The universities include Kogi State University, Anyigba, Federal University Lokoja, and Salem University, Lokoja. Other tertiary institutions are Federal Polytechnic, Idah, Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State College of Education, Ankpa, College of Agriculture, Kabba and Kogi State College of Education (Technical), Kabba. There are other higher institutions which include the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Anyigba and Obangede, the School of Health Technology in Idah, and ECWA School of Nursing, Egbe.

VISION

The vision of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara is:
“To be a reputable world-class institution renowned for producing highly skilled, globally competitive graduates with a strong affinity for practical problem-solving, and cutting-edge research output”

MISSION

The mission of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara is:

“To provide a most conducive teaching and learning environment that robustly supports both the teachers and learners in cultivating and sustaining critical thinking culture as well as knowledge discovery, application, preservation, and exchange, and promote strategic values for the intellectual development of humanity in general and the nation in particular.

Mission Points:

Provide students with knowledge, skills, and confidence consistent with the ever-changing world;
Imbibe culture of inquisition that encourages scholarship and life-long learning in our students;
Produce graduates who are self-dependent, highly employable, and exhibit ethical behavior in their professional practice;
Inculcate into student’s leadership quality and excellence in service

CORE VALUES

In conducting the business of the university within and in relation to outside, every member of the university community shall be guided by the following principles in its mission toward achieving its vision

Integrity: honesty, fairness, and ethical conduct, in all our institutional activities and decision-making.

Excellence: consistently ensuring high-quality programmes, teaching, service, and innovative research that provide solutions to challenges and advance frontiers of knowledge.

Inclusivity: Practice the culture of all-inclusive learning, facilitating the success of all people, and supporting all individuals irrespective of culture and challenges.

Accountability: Be accountable for our actions and exercise responsible stewardship and prudent management of entrusted resources.

Respect: exhibit civility, sincerity of purpose, embracing diversity, and professionalism in all actions and decision-making.

Collaboration: Demonstrate collective interest through participation and teamwork towards achieving set objectives within and outside the University taking into consideration divergent ideas and perspectives.

Innovation: encouraging, considering, and supporting the development of ideas by fostering individual ingenuity and creativity and creating an environment with opportunities for growth and change.

Why the University?

The Kogi State was created from the old Kwara State and Benue State; the two states had always been in the lead in terms of enrolments into various programmes of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria which was the main regional university catering for the northern region before the establishment of the second-generation universities. As a way to control the ever-increasing demand from the States, the entry requirements into various programmes of the university had to be raised. This trend has kept manifesting in the present Kogi State.

Under the administration of His Excellency, Governor Abubakar Audu, in year 2000, the Kogi State Government took advantage of the placement of education on concurrent list in the Nigerian Constitution and establish the first State university, Kogi State University, now Prince Abubakar University, Anyigba to ameliorate the difficulties usually encountered by the youths in securing admission. The Main Campus main Campus of the university is located at Anyigba in Kogi East Senatorial District.

The University was billed to have two other campuses to be located in the other two senatorial districts in response to the demand of the teeming young secondary school leavers clamouring for university education.

Five years prior to the establishment of CUSTECH, Osara, the State has maintained a leading position in the North-Central geopolitical zone, second in the northern region and 10^th at national level with respect the total application for placement into higher institutions in the country through Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The State annual applications for admission into higher institutions through the Board has risen considerably from 60,000 in 2015 to 74,553 in 2019. Out of the total candidates that applied in 2016, the number that applied to the State university stood at 21,963 while the official admission quota allocated by the National Universities Commission to the State university was 5,062. Other universities that could provide space for the rest of the teeming secondary school leavers were equally under admission pressures.

The State currently hosts three universities, one State University, one Federal University and one Private university offering similar scope of academic disciplines, mainly in humanities and basic sciences.

The combined capacity based on official admission quotas for the three Universities in the State is less than eight thousand. The rate of expansion of these institutions aimed at assimilating the ever-increasing demand for higher education in the State is relatively slow. The current State Government is undertaking various educational reforms aimed at improving the quality of training and encouraging enrolments at primary and secondary school levels. In addition, the ongoing rehabilitation works in these schools, in terms of the provision of necessary facilities, would greatly improve their capacities. These efforts would surely trigger greater demand for higher education in the subsequent years.

The economies of the world are now knowledge-driven. As the country is taking steps to meet its goals for socioeconomic development, it is imperative that States take action to address the challenges of underdevelopment.

The availability of the right manpower resources plays a crucial role in the realization of the economic goals of the State and the country in general. It has therefore become imperative that areas such as Science, Technology, and Health become the primary focus in human resource development to address the current challenges of underdevelopment and healthcare delivery.

In line with the present dictate, the decision of the present government to establish another full-fledged, specialized State University is perfectly in tune with earlier plans of the State to cover the crucial areas of health, science, and technology disciplines. The full-status university would largely address admission difficulty occasioned by the astronomical increase in the demand for university education in these specialized disciplines.

In his usual wisdom and foresight, the Executive Governor of Kogi State, His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello, recognized the huge manpower and research deficit in health, science, and technology, and therefore proposed the establishment of a Specialised University for the State. The scope of the academic programme development of the University would be initially limited to the Academic Disciplines of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, Environmental Sciences, and Health Sciences.

The carefully selected discipline coverage would offer extensive development of the related academic programmes and promotion of high-level research and innovation for the technological advancement and socio-economic development of the State and the general well-being of the citizens.

Our Campus

We have the best and conducive environment for our academic activities.

Our Equipped LIbrary

Access to relevant and current library resources is guaranteed. These resources are available in hard copy and e-formats, access is further facilitated with campus wild deployment of wireless internet facilities for quick and reliable connection to the information super highway.

Conducive Learning Environment

In line with our mission and vision, a serene environment has been created to encourage learning and inculcate the culture of inquisition that tends to advance the front tiers of knowledge. The campus is being developed based on a master plan to ensure an appealing and well-coordinated built environment.