about us

The idea of establishing an institution for training of Health workers was conceived by a young fore-sighted medical Doctor David Iorshagher Maor and his loving wife, Mrs. Comfort Maor. Dr Maor’s experience as a medical Doctor exposed him to a gross lack of Health personnel in our ruler communities. He was thus driven by this force to establish College of Health Technology Aliade. This dream became a reality on 12^th July, 2010 when the first set of seventy-one students were matriculated marking the official commencement of the College. The college started at Julia Mega Secondary School Aliade as its temporary site.

On 1^st January 2013, it was registered with Benue State Ministry of Health Makurdi with Registration number MOH/P/D/II. Similarly on the 16th October, 2015, the College was incorporated with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) under the companies and allied matters act 1990 with registration number 1293293. More importantly on the 14^th December 2017, the College signed a Memorandum of understanding with Benue State University Teaching Hospital Makurdi for training of Community Health Extension Workers, Medical Laboratory Technicians, Health Information Management among several other courses.

The major breakthrough of the institution was on the 8^th March 2018 when the College was accredited by Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria, Abuja. Based on the foregoing, our 1^st sets of students were successfully indexed by Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria on 30^th January, 2019.

Determined to expand in her academic programs. The College applied to Medical Laboratory Science Council Nigeria (MLSCN) for approval of Department of Medical Laboratory Science. In response to the application, the MLSCN sent a high-powered resource verification team to the College from 8^th to 10^th May 2019. Following the resource verification visit, Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria granted approval to the Department of Medical Laboratory Science on 29^th July, 2019 through a letter signed by Mr. Erhabor Tosan, acting Registrar and Chief Executive Officer.

To consolidate on the existing achievements and promote quality training of students, the College signed a Memorandum of understanding with Federal Medical Centre Makurdi on 9^th September, 2019. The cheering news came on 29^th September, 2021 when the first set of Community Health Students successfully completed their National Examination making the first batch of students who graduated from the College. Government recognition and Accreditation of various courses led to the growth of the College in structure and its programmes.

The pioneer Staff of the college

The pioneer provost of the College was Br. Akaa Dennis. Other pioneer principal officers of the College include Mr. Gboko Terhile (Bursar), Mr. Imande Yaji (Registrar), Mr Udzer Daniel (HOD Community Health). More so, Mr. Audu Elias was appointed as the College Registrar on 10^th February, 2015, while Mr. Bur Iorwase Peter was appointed the College Provost on 16^th February, 2018

Today the school has become a household name in the country and beyond. With a humble beginning of seventy-one students, the College has witnessed a remarkable increase in population and expansion of various programmes. 

OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLEGE:

1. To train man power for the provision of primary health care which reflects the economic conditions, socio cultural and political characteristics of these communities and address their health problems in line with national health policy and strategy, to achieve sound health for all Nigerians including ruler dwellers.
2. To train disciplined and committed health workers who can efficiently provide health services to people in need.
3. To reduce the suffering of people who travel far and wide in search of admission, and conducive place for study. The establishment of the College is thus an attempt to provide a credible alternative to other health institutions providing similar services to humanity.
4. To breed health workers who can tackle emerging health challenge like HIV/AIDS. Maternal mortality, environment hygiene etc. which tend to reduce life expectancy in our communities.
5. To make health care particularly, accessible, acceptable and affordable for the teeming population in the country. To serve as center for research in community health and other related areas in the field
6. To minimize the problem of shortage of qualified health workers in the country.