Tag: NUC

NUC hikes private university processing fees to ₦25m

Aminu Imam
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The Federal Government has hiked the processing fees for new private universities to ₦25million, a memo issued by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, (NUC), Prof. Abdullahi Ribaɗu yesterday. The previous processing fee was ₦5million. The Commission said the move was part of its efforts at repositioning private universities in Nigeria to better meet the needs of the citizenry and for better coordination of the development of the Private University Education sub-sector of the Nigerian University System. It also said it has identified the need to review the…

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NUC denounces list of fake professors in Nigerian universities

Aminu Imam

The National Universities Commission( NUC), has denounced the list of fake professors in some Nigerian universities being circulated in the media by some mischief makers which reporting was ascribed to a Lagos based electronic media as untrue and could not have emanated from the apex regulatory educational body without due consultation with their accredited universities. According to the Deputy Executive Secretary in-charge of its Academic Directorate, Dr. Noel Abiodun Saliu, such information should be taken as mischievous and unfounded, saying it could not have emanated from the National Universities Commission,…

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Cotonou Degree: Don’t be sad, they just helping us

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Professor Abdulmalek Amoka. I was reflecting on this Cotonou 6-week to 1-year degree program and I began to wonder why we are making so much noise about it. The good thing about the degree is that you need not travel there or write any examination. You just register and it will be couriered to you. Nigerians said degrees are useless and that “who e help”. They said we should go and learn welding and carpentry instead of going for a degree (skills rather than a degree). Now, we are…

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Cotonou Degree Saga: The truth we shy away from

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Hashim Muhammad Suleiman  In all this Cotonou degree saga, like all crises, truth is the first casualty. We are all up in the furore of few days degree certificates from Nigerian neigbours. Yet, we’ve all decided to shy away from the one and only truth that made those degree mills a reality. Successive governments in Nigeria have failed to fund university education in Nigeria.  If we are true to our pains, then we should all address the genesis of the problem: failure of governments in Nigeria to strengthen our…

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New-Liberalism and Cotonou Degree Alternative

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Dr Kabiru Danladi Lawanti The whole Cotonou degree is criminal and all those involved need to be fished out and punished. Some people might see us as harsh or maybe insensitive for saying this. There are things we cannot say in public, but one needs not to be a prophet of doom to predict that Nigeria cannot withstand this onslaught and will eventually crash.  Our desperate quest for certification through whatever means led us to this situation. Parents are desperate to have their kids in the university, some even…

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Nigeria has only 100,000 lecturers for 2.1 million varsity students NUC

Aminu Imam

The National Universities Commission, (NUC), has said that 100,000 academic staff members were attending to 2.1 million students in Nigerian universities. The NUC disclosed this in its latest bulletin, which was made available to newsmen, in Abuja. The Commission also stated that universities should be isolated from the Federal Governments circular on new employment owing to the shortage of lecturers. The Deputy Executive Secretary, Administration, NUC, Chris Maiyaki, who was quoted in the bulletin, explained that the Commission was supervising over 200 universities, consisting of 48 belonging to the Federal…

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NUC issues new directives on reopening of varsities

Ishaku Yohanna

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released new directives to Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian universities for the safe reopening of universities for academic activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a memo addressed to the Vice-Chancellors sighted, the Commission announced that steps have been taken towards the reopening of universities in Nigeria following a significant decline in the number of recorded cases of the virus in the country. According to the memo signed by Chris Maiyaki, Director, Directorate of the Executive Secretarys Office, universities in Nigeria can now conclude their resumption arrangements…

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