President Bola Tinubu has approved provisional licenses for additional eleven new private universities in Nigeria.
The approval, which brings the number of private universities in the country to about 160, was made at the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting on Monday.
Special Adviser to the president on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement on his X account, expressed Tinubu’s commitment to expanding the frontiers of educational opportunities and infrastructure.
The approved private universities are: New City University, Ayetoro Ogun State, University of Fortune, igbotako, Ondo State, Eranova University, Mabushi, Minaret University, Ikirun, Osun Annex, Abubakar Toyin University, oke-Agba, Kwara State and Southern Atlantic University Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
Others are Lens University, ilemona, Kwara State, Monarch University, Iyesi-Ota, Ogun State, Tonnie Iredia University of Communication, Benin City, Isaac Balami University of Aeronautics and Management, Lagos and Kevin Eze University, Mgbowo, Enugu State.
Recall that the National Universities Commission, NUC, had in a statement by its Executive Secretary, Prof Abdullahi Ribadu, placed a one-year moratorium on all inactive applications, including those of private open universities.
Ribadu however explained that the one-year moratorium only affected applicants that have not made progress on their applications or made submissions to the Commission for upwards of two years.
