The Vision and Mission of Benson Idahosa University flows from its divine mandate which was God’s word to its founder. His mandate was to:

“Raise up an army of professionals and academics who would go in Christ’s name to the ends of the world with the fire of the Holy Ghost to impart Truth by precept and example.”


The Vision

BIU is therefore a university established to raise academics, professionals and entrepreneurs, who will be effective disciples for Christ by excelling in their professional fields. Benson Idahosa University aspires to be a model for “academic excellence with godliness” and will be distinguished by high performance in interdisciplinary research, addressing national and international problems, eliminating wrong behavioural patterns among students, and becoming a storehouse of knowledge to be used for the benefit of mankind on christian ethical principles. BIU is poised to change the nation and the continent by changing one student’s life at a time.

Mission

BIU is a private christian university, providing state – of – the art undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education. It is committed to the mission of raising leaders for the nation, who are complete in spirit, mind and body, thus contributing to the production of high level leadership and quality manpower for the nation and the world.         

The university’s key services are teaching, research, community development and character building. It performs these functions by judiciously utilizing current information and communication technology, networking with similar institutions worldwide, putting people first in its operations, and emphasizing christian ethical values. The beneficiaries of the University’s services are students, employers, present and future generations. Nigeria and the global community.         

The University’s Core Purpose is CHANGE NIGERIA.           

As BIU’s second Vice Chancellor Professor G.E.D. Omuta rightly declared, “Nigeria needs urgent re-engineering, because all major indicators point her to the direction of grave danger. Nigeria is in danger because it is rapidly but dangerously consolidating on a foundation that could collapse at any time, except there is prompt strategic intervention, and reworking of its entire fabric from the base. Nigeria’s vulnerable and unsustainable foundation is characterized by a seemingly established culture of indiscipline, indecency, and roguery, among other vices. Societal indiscipline wears such faces as lawlessness, and unbridled violation of rules, impatience in banking halls, at traffic holdups, filling stations and airports, among others. Indecency is manifested in obscene dressing by both the young and the old, more especially among females; the use of foul language; and lack of respect for elders and constituted authority, especially by the youths. The rogues in Nigeria include those involved in all kinds of stealing. The rogue culture pervades government ministries, departments and agencies, where looting is an acceptable and even encouraged norm.

Other public sectors and the private sector are not insulated. Regrettably, even the university and the church: two institutions which used to be the last resort for hope, have been invaded by these elements. Roguery also includes stealing of intellectual property in the forms of plagiarism, piracy and examination misconduct. It also includes over-invoicing, pilfering of items in ones custody, and negotiating prices against ones employers, among several others.The seeming societal support for, and acceptance of, this self-destructive culture is confirmed by the almost ubiquitous observation that the lawless man is celebrated as being bold, the man that steals the most is eulogized as the smartest, or put the other way, the man who refuses to steal is despised as foolish and stupid; the vulgar and violent man is revered, while gentlemen are overrun; and the obscenely dressed female is admired as trendy and being in vogue.However, even those who celebrate them know that these vices are antithetical to what Nigeria needs, and should stand for, if she is to be relevant on the global scene. This can be confirmed by a vicious circle in which the rogue complains about obscenity, while the obscene complains about lawlessness and the lawless complains about roguery. In other words although the average Nigerian has a beam in his eye, he pretends to see only the one, which could in fact be only a mote, in the eye of the other Nigerian.“The need for change in Nigeria is, therefore, not contestable, because both the mote and the beam impair vision.

The question, then, is: who will change Nigeria? Is it the man or woman whose vision for the country is already impaired, and is part of, or could even be the celebrated champion of the culture of roguery, indiscipline and violence? The answer is No. It will take the grace of God to be able to straighten a bent dried fish without breaking it. It is when the fish is yet fresh and malleable that you can give it a desired shape.“And that is where the Vision that drives Benson Idahosa University becomes relevant; as God’s own strategic intervention to save and rescue Nigeria, by raising a new generation of leaders. Many would say that this is ambitious. Yes, we are quick to agree that it is indeed very ambitious. But here at Benson Idahosa University, the team is so incurably infected with, and addicted to, the faith of Archbishop Benson Idahosa, that we believe that, with God, nothing is impossible; and that it is, indeed, possible to change Nigeria.“Our driving force, therefore, is the determination, by conscious, God-guided design, to produce world-class human capital, by raising young men and women of integrity, based on the fear of God, who, one-on one, in their various stations of life, in Nigeria, are able to acquit themselves, by reason of their training and godly preparation, as examples and testimonies of good works. Although degrees are traditionally awarded on the basis of character and learning, and although character is presented before learning, the character component is often not taken seriously. Here, at Benson Idahosa University, we seek to give practical and verifiable expression to the character component of our products, because we have come to know that men and women, who are found worthy only in learning, cannot change Nigeria.

An ungodly first class accountant, for instance, could also, and very easily, become a first class manipulator of figures, accounts and funds, and ultimately, a first class rogue.To assure and control the quality of the character component of our training, and by implication, our products, we have compiled a code of conduct titled: BIU Student Handbook. The code is designed to discourage, and ultimately eliminate, spiritual indifference, drug and substance abuse, violent behaviour, cultism, all sexual immorality and pervasion, fraud, lateness, all forms of absenteeism and truancy, indecent dressing, stealing, examination malpractice, disregard for constituted authorities and oppression, among others. Appropriate sanctions for violating the code are enshrined in the Handbook.

All students must sign the appropriate portion of the Handbook (in duplicate) both as part of the registration process, and as a commitment and evidence that they have accepted to be bound by both the code and the sanctions.”