By Radio Nigeria
The Federal Government on Wednesday granted provisional licences to 20 new private universities to operate in Nigeria.
The decision was taken at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in ABUJA.
Briefing newsmen after the FEC meeting, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said the approved universities would get their provisional licences from the National Universities Commission.
He said they would operate with the provisional licences “for the next three years while monitoring and evaluation will go on.”
Nine of the private universities are located in North Central; three in South South; two in South East; five in North West and one in South West.
The new universities are Topfaith University, Mkpatak, Akwa Ibom State; Thomas Adewumi University, Oko-Irese, Kwara State; Maranathan University, Mgbidi, Imo State; Ave Maria University, Piyanko, Nasarawa State; and Al-Istiqama University, Sumaila, Kano State.
Others are Mudiame University, Irrua, Edo State; Havilla University, Nde-Ikom, Cross River State; Claretian University of Nigeria, Nekede, Imo State; NOK University, Kachia, Kaduna State; and Karl-Kumm University, Vom, Plateau State.
They also include James Hope University, Lagos, Lagos State; Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria, Kano, Kano State; Capital City University, Kano, Kano State; Ahman Pategi University, Pategi, Kwara State; and University of Offa, Offa, Kwara State.
Others are Mewar University, Masaka, Nasarawa State; Edusoko University, Bida, Niger State; Philomath University, Kuje, Abuja; Khadija University, Majia, Jigawa State; and Anan University, Kwall, Plateau State.
With the latest approval, Nigeria now has 99 private universities.
