Wednesday 2 November 2016

Proliferation of Private Universities on the increase, while public universities are dying daily

National Universities Commission

Recall the 80s and early 90s when private individuals started the proliferation of private primary and secondary schools across the country, which led to the death of public primary and secondary schools, because anybody who managed to get to the echelon of power was so eager to make quick money by establishing their own private primary and secondary schools.

The same is beginning to apply to the nation’s tertiary institutions, as most corrupt politicians have seen it as a money spinner after looting tax payers’ money while in office.

Report has it that, government, on Wednesday endorsed the take-off of eight new private universities across the nation, while our public universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education are collapsing daily due to lack of attention and adequate funding by these cabals. It was during the Federal Executive Council (FEC), that the decision was made. The FEC meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

After the meeting, the Minister of State for Education, Professor Anthony Anwuka made the decision public through journalists.

Anwuka recorded the new Universities to include: Anchor University, Ayobo, Lagos claimed by Deeper Christian Life Ministry; Arthur Jarvis University, Akpabuyo, Cross River built by the Clitter House Nigeria Limited; Clifford University, Owerrinta, Abia possessed by Seventh Day Adventist Church; Coal City University, Enugu worked by African Thinkers Community of Inquiry College of Education, Enugu.


Others are: Crown-Hill University, Eiyenkorin, Kwara skimmed by Modern Morgy and Sons Limited; Dominican University, Ibadan, the brainchild of Order of Preachers, Nigerian Dominican Community; Kola Daisi University, Ibadan originated from Kola Daisi Foundation; Legacy University, Okija, a thought of The Good Idea Education Foundation

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