The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the issuance of provisional licenses for the establishment of 12 private universities across the country.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to reporters at the end of the Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said the universities would be located in Abia, Anambra, Delta, Gombe, Kano, Niger, Sokoto, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to the Minister, the proposed private universities are Pen Resource University Gombe, Gombe State, Al-Ansar University, Maiduguri, Borno State, Margaret Lawrence I -University, Delta State, and Khalifa Ishaku Rabiu University Kano, Kano State.
Others are Sports University Idumuje Ugboko, Delta State, Bala Ahmed University, Kano, Saisa University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Sokoto State, Nigerian-British University Hasa, Abia State and Peter University, Acina-Onene, Anambra State, as well as Newgate University, Minna, Niger State, European University of Nigeria in Duboyi, Abuja and the North-West University Sokoto. ”
Mohammed said the Minister of State, Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, presented the memo on behalf of the National Universities Commission and it was approved by the cabinet.
According to him, each of the new universities will be mentored by the old universities nearer to them.
He argued that the establishment of additional universities for an over two hundred million-populated country was necessary if the policy of educating a larger percentage of youngsters was to succeed.
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