Federal College Of Animal Health And Production Technology, Vom, Plateau State

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Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Vom is one of the Federal Colleges of Agriculture in Nigeria. It is located within The National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Vom and trains students in Animal Health, Animal Production and Agriculture Extension and Management.

The College was established in 1941, as Veterinary School, Vom, with a total of ten students. Some of these, registered for Veterinary Assistants (junior course), Veterinary Assistants (senior course) and others as Veterinary Officers. The School has the credit of being the first Higher Institution in West Africa to produce graduate Veterinary Surgeons long before the first University was established in Nigeria, at Ibadan in 1948.

The school also played a key role, especially between 1947 and 1962, in training middle level veterinary manpower for other African Countries, notably the Cameroons, Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ethiopia and Sudan.

On establishment of University College at Ibadan now known as University of Ibadan, it was recommended that the higher training to the Veterinary Officers’ level be consigned to the University. Consequently, the Veterinary School, Vom, discontinued the Veterinary Officers’ course in June 1950, and thereafter concentrated entirely on running only one course, namely a 2 year Veterinary Assistants’ Course. In March 1980, the Veterinary School was formally accorded a college status and renamed College of Animal Health and Husbandry with a mandate to award Ordinary and Higher Diplomas.

With the establishment of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) by the Federal Military Government of Nigeria, and the subsequent accreditation visitation to the College in 1983, the diploma programmes were suspended in 1988. However, with the approval granted the College by the NBTE in 1989 and 1992, for National Diploma (ND) programmes in Animal Health and Production and the Higher National Diploma (HND) in Animal Health respectively a set of students were enrolled. It will be mentioned that the College was again renamed the Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology on 29 January 1991.