Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, revealed the information
after the extra-ordinary Council meeting on Monday.
He noted that the development brings to 72 the total number
of universities licensed by the Buhari administration since 2015.
He Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, revealed the
information after the extra-ordinary Council meeting on Monday.
He noted that the development brings to 72 the total number
of universities licensed by the Buhari administration since 2015.
He failed to name the universities, but revealed that one of
them is an online university, the first of its kind in Nigeria, and owned by a
woman from Bauchi State, with expectation that it will cater for the likes of
northern Muslim women who feel reluctant or are restrained from attending
physical campus education.
Fielding questions on the expediency of additional
universities given funding challenges of the existing ones, Adamu explained
that these ones are all private, with enough funds to run them and they should
not be denied the opportunity to exist.
The Minister further explained that Nigeria actually needs
more universities as the available ones are not adequate to take up all those
yearning for higher education.