It opened in August of the same year as the Federal Polytechnic, Yola, on the rocky side of the north bank of the Benue River.
Following a presidential directive, the polytechnic was relocated to Mubi in October 1982, but it maintained its site in Yola as a consultancy services unit.
More recently, complete new science and engineering laboratories, workshops and studio have sprung up with heavy machines telling the tales of modem technology.
The products of these programmes formed the bulk of the candidates admitted for the pioneer National Diploma Programames in the ten Departments of the Polytechnic as at then.
Since inception, the Polytechnic has endeavored to empower so many with both the technical and entrepreneurial skills needed to fight and alleviate poverty.