NUC Releases List Of 11 Sub-Standard Universities In Nigeria

NUC Releases List Of 11 Sub-Standard Universities In Nigeria.

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has just released a list of eleven sub-standard Nigerian universities.

NUC, on Thursday denied the eleven private universities operating in Nigeria full operational licenses for their inability to meet up with set standards three years after they were issued provisional licenses.

According to Premium Times, this has been attributed to their failure to meet the required standards three years after they were issued provisional licenses.

This was revealed by the National Universities Commission Executive Secretary, Julius Okojie during the presentation of the full operational licenses to nine other private universities. He stated that the affected universities were given a time frame of 2 years to up their standard but they failed to do so even in 3 years.

The list of affected universities are:

Wesley University of Science and Technology
Landmark University
Rhema University
Samuel Adegboyega University
Paul University
Oduduwa University
Tansian University
Baze University
Obong University
Achievers University
Wellspring University.

He noted that the universities were also to be monitored by NUC to ensure that they comply with the original purpose of establishment.
He said:
“That was also part of NUC’s initiative for early warning signals to detect compromises in quality for the application of corrective and remedial measures to redress such situations,”“If we don’t monitor them now they will have problems. So they will slow down on programmes, (we) look at their staff strength and look at their programmes,”

Meanwhile, the nine universities that received full operational licenses are Veritas University, Caleb University, Geofery Okoye University, Fountain University, Adeleke University, Western Delta University, Afe Babalola University, Salem University and Nigerian Turkish Nile University.