Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Monday, May 15, 2023, revealed that the Federal Executive Council (FEC), has granted operating licences to 37 new private universities.
The 37 newly approved universities are listed below.
Adamu who made the announcement while briefing journalists after an extraordinary FEC meeting presided by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the State House in Abuja, said the new set of approval brings to 72 the total number of universities licensed by the Buhari administration since 2015.
Adamu who did not give out the names of the successful institutions, said one of them was an “online university, the first of its kind in Nigeria and owned by a woman from Bauchi State.”
“One of the universities is an online university by a woman from Bauchi State and this is significant in the sense that we always want to have our women coming forward in education,” he said.
“As far as I’m concerned, we need more universities. We are still under-university. And if there are universities that are underfunded, they should be funded. It shouldn’t affect new universities that are being established.
“In any case, this one is by the private sector. And I assure you that the regulatory process is such that they will not be established unless they are fully ready for it.”
He added that the licences were granted based on the guarantees given by the institutions on funding and projections.
Adamu said they were all private facilities, adding, the varsities have enough funds to run them and should not be denied the opportunity to exist.
PrimeStar News investigation revealed the university approved include: Muhammad Kamlud-Deen University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Sam Maris University, Supare, Ondo State, Aletheia University, go-Iwoye, Ogun State, Vision University, Ikogbo, Ogun State, Gerar University of Medical Science, Imope-Ijebu, Lux Mundi University, Umuahia, Abia State, Maduka University, Ekwegbe-Nsukka, Enugu State, Peaceland University, Amadeus University, Amizi, Abia State, Azman University, Kano State, Huda University, Gusau, Zamfara State, Franco British International University, Kaduna, Kaduna State, Canadian University of Nigeria, Abuja, FCT, Cosmopolitan University, Abuja, FCT, Amaj University, Abuja, FCT, Prime University, Abuja, FCT, Miva Open University, Abuja, FCT, Al-Muhibbah Open University, Abuja, FCT, Brirish Canadian University, Obudu, Cross River State, and Hensard University, Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State.
Others are: Phoenix University, Agwada, Nasarawa, Wigwe University, Isiokpo, Rivers State, Hillside University of Science and Technology, Okemesi, Ekiti State, Venite University, Iloro-Ekiti, Ekiti State, University of on the Niger, Umunya, Anambra State, Elrari Medical University, Kano Kano State, Shanahan University, Onitsha, Anambra State, The Duke Medical University, Iwara, Iwo, Osun State, Iconic University of Open Learning, Sokoto, Sokoto State, West Midlands University, Ibadan, Oyo State, El-Amin University, Niger State, College of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Jewel University, Gombe, Gombe State, Nigerian University of Technology and Management, Lagos, Lagos State, Al-Bayan University, Ankpa, Kogi State and Lighthouse University, Benin, Edo State.
According to our source, African School of Economics, Abuja, FCT and Rayhaan University, Birmin Kebbi, Kebbi State are yet to be approved.
