The
National Universities Commission, NUC, on Thursday denied 11 private
universities operating in Nigeria full operational licenses for their
inability to meet set standards three years after they were issued
provisional licenses.
No fewer than 11 private universities in Nigeria were denied full
operational licenses by the National Universities Commission, NUC, on
Thurday, 13th of August.
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 NUC 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.
- 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.