HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE COLLEGE

Great Success College of Health Sciences and Technology, Gwada; a ‘brain child’ of its founding fathers (Honorable Ahmed Siza Bawa, Mal. Mohammed Sani Shukura, and Mal. Abubakar Ya’u) was established in the year 2015. The school formally known as Success Health Foundation was located at its temporary site at Bisi, along Minna Road, Gwada, Shiroro local government area of Niger State, Nigeria.

From inception the school had three departments namely: Departments of Environmental Health, Health Information Management and Health Education and Promotion; with total student enrolment of fifty five (55). In 2016 through 2017 and 2018 students population rose from 55 to about two hundred and twenty (220). Academic staff strength from inception grew to about 18 personnel including full time and part time academic staff in 2018.

In the year 2019 Honorable Ahmed Bawa Siza became the sole Proprietor of the school after the two other partners withdrew from the Partnership voluntarily.

From 2019, when Honorable Ahmed Bawa Siza took over as sole Proprietor of the school, there was a boom in its growth and development.  The status of the school was elevated to a college which since then is known as Great Success College of Health Sciences and Technology, Gwada, and has relocated to its permanent site occupying eleven hectares of land at Tuluku along Minna Road, Gwada. The College now has six (6) academic departments (Departments of Health Information Management, Medical Laboratory Technology, Environmental Health Technician, Health Education and Promotion, Pharmacy Technician and Public Health). Students’ population has risen from 220 in 2018 to one thousand and ninety (1090) in 2025.

Training facilities in the college now include functional ICT, functional Medical Training and Diagnostic Laboratory, a standard Primary Health Care Centre a standard Environmental Model Village. The college has also put in place a functional Demonstration Clinic and Students Demonstration Room for the Department of Community Health. A multipurpose hall (Prof. Yunusa Danladi Hakimi Hall) is currently functional. The college now has twenty Class Rooms and twenty eight office accommodation. Staff strength has risen to fifty six (56), including academic and non- academic staff.

Utilities such as power supply (Power Generator), a standard water supply system and recreational/sporting facilities are now being enjoyed in the college.

The Management/Administrative Team of the institution working tirelessly with the Proprietor, Hon. Ahmed Bawa Siza , through his visionary team of managers, was able to successfully steer the college to attaining its present status. Following inauguration of the Governing Council chaired by Prof. Yunusa Danladi Hakimi (Idon Minna), ‘who is so much in love with excellence,’ the institution experienced a record breaking wave of growth and development where the administrative and academic architecture of the college have modernized to meet the present day and prepare for future challenges.