The Executive Secretary, National Universities’ Commission (NUC) Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, has urged Nigerian universities’ Vice-Chancellors to help government end the current strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Rasheed made the call in Abuja on Monday at the 2022…
The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Thursday in Abuja presented provisional licences to 12 new private universities. The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu presented the licences to the each proprietor of the universities. The universities are the Pen Resource…
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has reviewed the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards, BMAS, for universities, revising it to Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards, CCMAS. The reform will soon be unveiled to the public, the regulatory body revealed on Thursday. The…
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved Medicine and Surgery and 18 other academic programmes at the Federal University, Dutse (FUD) in Jigawa State. This is contained in a statement by the University’s Spokesman, Abdullahi Yahaya-Bello, on Saturday in Dutse.…
The National Universities Commission (NUC), on Tuesday, accredited five remaining courses in the faculties of Arts and Social sciences of the Federal University Lokoja (FUL), Kogi. A statement signed and issued by the FUL Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof Olayemi Akinwumi, in…
The Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has ranked Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, among the first 25 Nigerian Universities with full accreditation of courses, an official disclosed. Malam Husaini Adamu-Zuru, the university’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), made this…
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that it has discovered 67 illegal universities, satellite campuses and study centres in the country. Executive Secretary of the Commission, Abubakar Rasheed, stated this while speaking at the 11th convocation of Al-Hikmah University…
The National Universities’ Commission (NUC) has approved the commencement of 38 Postgraduate programmes and 16 additional undergraduate courses at the Sokoto state university. The 39 programmes covered post graduate diplomas, Masters and PhDs in different disciplines. A statement signed by…
Some former Chief Executives/Registrars of key agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education, whose tenure expired on July 31, have handed over to the most senior directors in the agencies. At the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq…
Omoregie Tina The National Universities Commission has granted provisional licences to 20 newly established private universities. They received their licences from the Minister of Education, Adamu Ada in Abuja on Thursday. With the approval, Nigeria now has 99 private universities.…
