The founding of NAAT was not without difficulties, sacrifices, deprivations and some hilarious moments particularly in the early days.</p> <p>A major problem encountered at the founding of NAAT was poor communication services. The telephone system was virtually non-existent. To relate with colleagues in other universities was either by physical contact or radio messages. The radio room was usually located at the Vice-Chancellor’s office. It sometimes took days for the message to reach the intended end because someone had to take the message to the person desired who may also need to go back to the Vice-chancellor’s office to talk to the originator of the message at the other end at agreed time.<br /> All the contacts made in those early days were by road often originating from Ilorin in the North-central zone through Ibadan, Ife and Lagos in the West, across to Nsukka in the East with Mrs. Falaiye and team linking from the Northern Zone. For the reason that the Mr. Femi Oyetunji, the pioneer PRO’s car was used for much of the road trips, it was nick-named the “ASUTON LINE”.<br /> At the very early stage of ASUTON evolution, the trips by the pioneer leaders were funded from contributions by the University of Ilorin members.<br /> As much as possible, certain things were done at the expense of members’ convenience to minimize expenditure and conserve the very limited resources available. A case in point was an intended visit to University of Abuja which was aborted because after visiting NUC the team could not locate the University