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NUC To Sanction The Approval Of Two New Varsities Next Week

By Abimbola Kintum

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has revealed that preparations are underway to declare the inception of two additional universities in the nation, thus increasing the total count of institutions to 272.

The acting Executive Secretary of the commission, Chris Maiyaki, made this announcement during a briefing with journalists in Abuja on Thursday.

Maiyaki affirmed that the NUC will persist in authorizing new universities to address the admission shortfall in the country.

He pointed out that while approximately two million applicants vie for university admission annually, the overall admission capacity ranges from 500,000 and 700,000.

Maiyaki’s stance comes amidst the fight of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other stakeholders in the tertiary education sub-sector against the proliferation of institutions in the country by the government at the Federal and State levels.

Stakeholders on numerous occasions said the establishment of new universities amidst poor funding of existing ones was not the way to go and hence had called on the government and the NUC to halt approvals given to new public universities.

“We have no choice but to as a matter of deliberate policy undertake the massification of universities,” Maiyaki said.

He said what separates the developed today from other countries is the level of investments in education.

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