Section 28: Interpretation.

1 In this Act:
"Campus" means any campus which may be established by the University;
"College" means the College which may be established by the University;
"Council" means the Council established for the University under section 2 (1) (b) of this Act;
"graduate" means a person on whom a degree, (other than an honorary degree) has been conferred by the University;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for education;
"notice" means notice in writing;
"officer" does not include the Visitor;
'prescribed" means prescribed by statutes or regulations;
'professor" means a person designated as a Professor of the University in accordance with provisions made in that behalf by statutes or by regulations;
'property" includes rights, liabilities and obligations;
"Provisional Council" means the Provisional Council established for the University;
“regulations" means regulations made by the Senate or Council;
"Senate" means the Senate of the University established pursuant to section 2 (1) (c) of this Act;
"School” means a unit of closely related academic programmes;
"statute" means a statute made by the University under section 11 and in accordance with section 12 of this Act, and "the statutes" means all such statutes as are in effect from time to time;
"teacher" means a person holding a full-time appointment as a member of the teaching or research staff of the University;
'undergraduate" means a person in statu pupillari with the University other than:
(a) a graduate; and
(b) a person of such description as may be prescribed for the purpose of the definition;
'university" means Modibbo Adama University, Yola established under section I (1) of this Act; and
"Visitor" means the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

2 It is declared that where in any provision of this Act it is laid down that the proposals are to be submitted or a recommendation is to be made by one authority or another through one or more intermediate authorities, it is the duty of every intermediate authority to forward such proposals or recommendations received by it in pursuance of that provision to the appropriate authority, but the intermediate authority may, if it deems fit, forward its own comments.