BY LINUS CHIBUIKE
The Federal Executive Council has approved the establishment of 20 additional private universities across the country.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the virtual FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, in Abuja.
The minister said the approved universities would get their provisional licences from the National Universities Commission, adding that they would use the licences for the next three years while monitoring and evaluation would go on.
The newly approved 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.
Also approved are: 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 include: 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.
Nine of the private universities, according to the list of approval, are located in North Central, three in South South, two in South East, five of them in North West and one in South West.
