Where Students Can Find the ABU Student Handbook and Key Forms

Updated

The ABU Student Handbook for the 2025–2026 session, the Met and Mats and ETEN student handbooks, and the Registrar's Staff Next-of-Kin Nomination Form are all reachable from the Ahmadu Bello University homepage at abu.edu.ng. The homepage carries a dedicated notice for each item with a "Check here" or "Download here" link, so the practical route is to open the homepage and follow those links rather than search the site's menus. This applies to current and incoming students who need official university documents, and to staff who need the next-of-kin form.

What is available from the homepage

The homepage groups these documents in a block of notices above the Campus News section. The items named there are:

Document Who it is for How the page points to it
ABU Student Handbook, 2025–2026 session Students "Download Now" and "Check here"
Met and Mats Student Handbook Students in that programme "Now Available — Check here"
ETEN Student Handbook Students in that programme "Now Available — Check here"
Registrar's Staff Next-of-Kin Nomination Form Staff "Download here"

The same area also links to the Directorate of Research and Innovation repository for research grants, patents, AAMs and conference presentations, and to the Equipment Maintenance and Development Centre's 2025 training calendar. Those are separate from the student handbooks but appear alongside them, which is useful if you are scanning the page for official downloads.

How to get the handbook

  1. Open abu.edu.ng in a browser.
  2. Look at the notice block near the top of the page, headed by the line about the ABU Student Handbook for the 2025–2026 session.
  3. Select the "Download Now" or "Check here" link next to the handbook you need — the main student handbook, Met and Mats, or ETEN.
  4. Save the file and check that the session year on the cover matches 2025–2026 before relying on it.

Expected result: you have the correct handbook file for your programme and session. If a link does not respond, reload the homepage first, since the notice block is updated as new documents are posted.

Other student-facing resources on the same site

Beyond the handbooks, the homepage points to several services that students commonly need:

  • Programmes: about 94 undergraduate programmes and roughly 664 postgraduate programmes (PhD, MPhil, MSc and PGD), plus the Distance Learning Centre for those who cannot study on campus.
  • Counselling and Human Development Centre: career guidance, job-readiness workshops, personal and academic counselling, and the Students Support Associates programme.
  • Academics: directories of faculties, centres, institutes, schools and colleges, plus research journals and conference pages.
  • Campus News and Updates: current calls and announcements, such as the 2026/2027 ABU–URV staff mobility programme and conference paper calls.

Common sticking points

  • Wrong session: handbooks are labelled by session. Confirm the year before using rules or deadlines from the file.
  • Programme-specific handbooks: Met and Mats and ETEN have their own handbooks. If you are in one of those programmes, use that version rather than the general student handbook.
  • Staff versus student forms: the Next-of-Kin Nomination Form is listed under the Office of the Registrar for staff. Students looking for their own forms should check the student handbook and the counselling or academics pages instead.
  • No single "downloads" menu: the documents are surfaced as homepage notices, so bookmark the homepage or the specific file once you find it.