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nd 0795-3089 22 June, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 12 FG Gives Conditions For Schools Reopening institutions must provide hand- The Federal Government has w a s h i n g f a c i l i t i e s, b o d y must be geared towards outlined conditions to be met by all temperature checks and body maintenance of the highest level schools before government would disinfectants at all entry points to of hygiene. announce the date for schools their major facilities, including the reopening in . gates, hostels, classes and offices. Hon. Nwajuba added that The Honourable Minister of Education (HME), Mal. Adamu Adamu said at the 2020 JAMB Policy Meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, that school authorities were expected to put all COVID-19 safety measures in place before reopening schools.

Represented by the Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwemeka Nwajuba said, “while we look forward to easing the lockdown which will ultimately lead to reopening of our campuses, I urge the heads of institutions not to wait till the announcement on reopening before putting in place all necessar y measures in Mal. Adamu Adamu compliance with the protocols and Hon. Minister of Education advisories of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.” He said the whole premises of institutions must also ensure each institution must be social/physical distancing in The minister said all educational decontaminated and all efforts class sizes and meeting spaces. in this edition JAMB Releases Senate Committee Dikwa Proposes Cut-off Marks For Holds Stakeholder 1st Private Varsity 2020 Admission Interaction On Army in Borno State ——— 510,957 Admission Spaces Unused In 2019 Varsity Bill

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JAMB Releases Cut-off Marks For 2020 Admission ——— 510,957 Admission Spaces Unused In 2019

Joint Admissions and Matriculation E x a m i n a t i o n a n d o t h e r Board (JAMB) has announced the accommodate applicants who qualifying results, to proceed on cut off points for admission into would be taking the examination with the admission process.” t e r t i a r y i n s t i t u t i o n s w i t h to be considered. universities pegged at 160 and Whatever arrangement the above, polytechnic 120 and above, country comes up, he declared colleges of education and innovation institutions 100 and above.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who announced this at the end of 2020 policy meeting, warned institutions against charging candidates more than N2,000 for screening exercise.

He disclosed that 510,957 admission spaces were unused in 2019 admission year while 612, 557 were offered admission out of 1,157,977 candidates that sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

He asked tertiary institutions to proceed with the conduct of 2020/2021 admissions following the approved guidelines.

Minister of Education, Mallam Prof. Is-haq Oloyede A d a mu A d a mu , w h o wa s JAMB Registrar “As major stakeholders, we must the system “would surely represented by the Minister of state jointly come up with reactions that accommodate those who will be for education, Hon. Chukwuemeka would realign our programmes to taking the examination when the Nwajiuba, urged JAMB and tertiary these new realities. While these opportunity to do so is worked institutions to consider candidates reactions are being fine-tuned to out.” with previous year's Senior School check their capacities and Certificate Examination (SSCE) capabilities to withstand the new The Policy Meeting was and other qualifying results to reality, JAMB and tertiary attended by heads of tertiary proceed with the admission institutions could take advantage institutions in Nigeria to heralds process. of the current situation and t h e c o m m e n c e m e n t o f consider candidates with previous admission processes in tertiary He stated that government has year's Senior School Certificate institutions. a d e q u a t e a r r a n g e m e n t t o

MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 02 22nd June, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 12 Senate Committee Holds Stakeholder Interaction On Army Varsity Bill Institutions Act. The Senate Committee on draft bill to expert scruntinity Nigerian Army last week held an and was presenting about 31 Some other observations interactive stakeholders meeting observations and comments made by the NUC include the on the bill for the establishment which it hoped would be need for the draft law to be of the Nigerian Army University provided with a table of Biu. contents to give a holistic presentation of the structures In a submission on behalf of the of the bill. N a t i o n a l U n i v e r s i t i e s C o m m i ssi o n (N UC ) th e The NUC also observed that Director Public Affairs, Ibrahim unlike the provision made in Usman Yakasai who represented the draft bill for the pro- the Executive Secretary, NUC, chancellor to be appointed by Prof. Abubakar A. Rasheed mni, the Chief of Army Staff MFR, FNAL, said that the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Nigerian (COAS) the appropriate Commission was in full support Army, Ali Ndume delivering his speech provision should be for the of the bill and urged for its incorporated in order to make Visitor to appoint the Pro- speedy passage by the National the law of the Army University chancellor. Assembly for Assent by the robust and in tandem with the President. provision of the Laws of the Mal. Yakasai said further that Federation as they affect contrary to the provision made

R-L: Ibrahim Usman Yakasai, Gen. T. Buratai and Prof. Kyari According to Mal. Yakasai, the education like the Education in the draft bill to restrict the Commission had subjected the National Minimum Standard office of the Pro-chancellor a n d E s t a b l i s h m e n t o f

MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 03 22nd June, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 12 to specific position in the Army, E k a n e m c l a s s i f i e d t h e B u r a t a i s a i d t h a t t h e the NUC feels strongly that for University as a specialised University’s position as a the overall good of the University established to cater model for the civil-military University, the position should for the security situation in the cooperation/ relationships be open to the best available and Country. and interface between military would not be out of place if a and civilian establishments former chief of Army staff was In his remarks, the Chief Army cumulating to a town and appointed but should not be Staff, LT GEN Tukur Yusuf gown relation. spelt out in the University Law. Buratai said that the NAUB was originally conceived as one of He described the NAUB Bill The Director said that the NUC the intellectual arms of the as a very important legal has made available all its Nigerian Army in order to bring document that imbued the comments and observations on cutting edge knowledge and university with the statutory the draft bill to the Senate address the increasing need for legal backing to operate as a Committee for consideration. specialized training and federal government citadel of research for the Armed Forces learning and the public hearing Earlier, Chairman of the and the wider society. as a necessary legislative Committee, Senator Ali Ndume requirement leading to its in a brief opening remark, stated He said that it was part of the passage. that the process of law making Nigerian Army’s counter to the requires that a public hearing be violent anti education ideology H e a p p r e c i a t e d t h e conducted, but due to the of terrorists ravaging the North contribution of the Senate, pandemic, interactive meeting East region. Minister of Education, and was called to reduce the number the National Universities of attendees. The COAS said that the Commission and other well- University was poised to wishers and friends of NUAB He said that he was aware that reduce illiteracy, productively for whom the University’s the university was approved engage young persons thereby story reflects their legacy and since April and started operation reducing the pool of youth’s passion for education in October 2018, adding that the susceptible to radicalization and Nigeria. meeting was a process of giving recruitment by insurgent it a legal backing through bill. groups. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kyari Mohammed in his He thanked the COAS, the He said that the institution speech said the University has N U C , F M E a n d o t h e r would become a major front in been modeled to be among the stakeholders for their pivotal role the Nigerian Army’s hearts and top five University in Nigeria in the establishment of the minds war in the North East in no distant future. He said University. with wider implications for the the University would focused rest of Nigeria and other crises and abide by NUC BMAS and FME Representative, Director ridden parts of the Sahel. all guidelines by the regulatory legal services, Barr. Grace bodies.

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Dikwa Proposes 1st Private Varsity in Borno State

Chairman, Al-Ansar Foundation Maiduguri and Abuja. It has also committed patriot with an and promoter of the Proposed done some humanitarian uncommon passion for Al-Ansar University, Dr. support in the North East. education. Mohammed Kyari Dikwa recently led a delegation to the National Dr. Dikwa said the foundation Prof. Rasheed said that as a civil Universities Commission (NUC) would strictly follow the servant Dr. Dikwa had assisted to submit completed planning procedures for Licensing the the FGN/University based documents of the proposed University.

The documents included duly completed application forms; Evidence of payment of processing fee; Academic Brief; Draft master plan; Environmental Impact Assessment Report; subsoil Investigation Report and Draft University Law.

Presenting the documents to the Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, Dr. Dikwa said that, the foundation had already secured a 100 Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Abubakar A. Rasheed and the Promoter hectares of land that would serve Al-Ansar University, Dr. Mohammed K. Dikwa as permanent site of the university p r o p o s e d U n ive r s i t y by Union re-negotiations team in Maiduguri, adding that the developing the necessary with very useful advises. governor of Borno who issued Physical facilities for its take-off. the C of O also promised to He saluted the courage of Dr. construct roads and some blocks A c c o r d i n g t o h i m , t h e Dikwa for being the first from of Staff houses and “prominent foundation was working towards Borno state to contemplate Nigerians have also pledged one 2021 take off. establishing a private university project or the other when in Borno and by extension in the construction start at the site.” The Executive Secretary, Prof. entire old Kanem Bornu Adamu Rasheed in his remarks Empire, a region that had in the The chairman said that the said he was delighted to receive recent past been in the news for foundation owned a Radio and the team, especially the leader the wrong reasons. Television stations and Schools as whom he described as a well as some religious centres in courageous, proactive and He described the Proposed

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University as the most important C.J. Maiyaki in his contribution the spacing of the courses and project in Borno State capable of commented on security new programmes and told the attracting both students and network, particularly perimeter team that availability of facilities Faculties from within and outside fencing of the University and equipment were sacrosanct the region and also change campus to prevent unwanted for all courses before final physical and psychological well intruders and land grabbers approval would be granted. being of that region. fro m en cro a ch in g in to university land. He pledged NUC’s support and Prof. Rasheed commended them advised them to consider all the for putting together a draft In a vote of thanks on behalf useful suggestions given in the Academic Brief and Physical of the delegation, Malam implementation of the project.

Prof. Rasheed and Dr. M.K. Dikwa (5th and 6th right). L-R: Mohammed Shehu, Abiodun Raheem, Bello Abdullahi, Abdulmuminu Bello, Abdulmalik Kyari, Ibrahim Yakasai, Mr. John Mairafi and Mr. Chris Maiyaki.

Master Plan, which NUC would Abdulmumini Bello thanked The Director Public Affairs, subject to reviews before the ES and his Management Malam Ibrahim Yakasai advised approval and advised them to take team for the free counsel and the Foundation on the quality of a second look at the programmes suggestions. projects, facilities, constructions, being proposed so as to start with purchase and installation of those more relevant to the people He pledge that the project facilities and equipment to meet and economic development of committee would take seriously NUC’s set standards. the region. the advices given in the implementation of the project. Directorate of the Executive The NUC Scribe also advised on Secretary’s Office (DESO), Mr.

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FACING THE NEW DECADE Being text of the 5th Convocation Lecture of the , Delivered by his Excellency, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN, GCON, Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, on Friday February 21, 2020.

am greatly indebted to the council and the great exploits being recorded by this University management of this great centre of learning in many fields that amply validate the promise of Iand research for the opportunity to give this the fruitful synergy of town and gown. lecture as part of the fifth convocation ceremonies of the University. Let me cite just two such examples. In recognition of your relevant and innovative research efforts, My special gratitude to Professor the Federal Ministry of Agriculture Fatima Batul Mukhtar, the dynamic selected your university to host the Vice Chancellor of this University Agribusiness Incubation centres. not only for the invitation but also for the warm hospitality accorded The second has been your me and my entourage since arrival. response to the security challenge besetting our nation today, you Every citadel of learning (higher elected to express a shared education) derives its claims to commitment to the national search greatness from the reputation and for solution by being the first among accomplishments of its students you~ peers to mount a programme and staff: the great academics and on Criminology and Security scholars to whom has been given Studies, thereby demonstrating the enormous task of instructing, your relevance and prove that the guiding and inspiring the minds and university should not just be an talents that are destined to: define incubator of ideas , but also a the future. Your task is possibly the solution-provider. noblest anyone could ask for, yet Prof. Yemi Osinbajo often without great reward or even Delivering Convocation Congratulations on these gratitude. We thank you for your Lecture at FU Dutse sterling achievements great and priceless service to this· and coming generations. And to the students of this university l' especially the graduating class of20 19, congratulations, & It is most pleasing to learn that the proverbial seed welldone. Madam Vice Chancellor, my lecture planted less than a decade ago, the Federal titled "Facing the Future," a topic you graciously University Dutse, has not only produced already allowed me to choose, is really directed to the four (4) sets of graduates and tomorrow by the young men and women here in this room today. grace of God a fifth set, but also grown so There are two reasons. First is that they are the bounteously as to now have over 7,000 (seven future. Secondly that future has arrived at our thousand) students spread across six (6) doorsteps much faster than we expected. For the Faculties, including a College of Medicine and next few minutes permit me to take you on a brief Health Sciences. Yours is the first among the set of journey into this imminent future, how it will affect universities set up by the Federal Government in us all and my humble suggestions about what you 2011 to establish a College of Medicine and Health may need to do to make the best of it . Sciences. Equally remarkable are the reports of

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Let me make a few general statements and opponent. Fourth and this is perhaps the most perhaps some predictions. First is that the next important point wish to make to you, it is that the few decades will present tremendous abundance of natural resources, even talents opportunities for getting well paying jobs and means little or nothing unless we use our those lucrative entrepreneurship opportunities all over resources, knowledge and talents innovatively, to the world. create wealth and opportunities. In other words we must add value. Let me put it differently. Anyone will be able to access many of those jobs without having to move from your own country, in The difference between poverty and wealth or some cases even without leaving your home. mediocrity and high achievement is creativity, or There will be a truly international market place of the capacity and willingness to add value. This is ideas, talents and opportunities, but to access that the reason why Apple manufacturers of the iPhone market place you need to become a global citizen and I pad, make more money in four months than by your own effort. Self education will be Nigeria earns from oil in one year. important. Second technology in its various iterations and applications will be crucial in all and Apple sells the product of the ingenuity of the every aspect of human existence. The greater our human mind, ideas translated to products, access to it, our adaptation and application of it to services and solutions that millions are prepared our-ideas the more successful we are likely to be. to pay for. And because the capacity of the human mind for creativity, generation of ideas, and for Third you are today in the most advanced moment innovation and invention is limitless, the source of in human history and on a daily basis knowledge wealth of innovative companies and individuals is and its applications grow in leaps and bounds. For literally limitless. On the other hand oil drilling and the first time in human history anyone of us can be selling and other extractive activities without heard or seen allover the world by live-streaming adding value by refining and developing a whole without owning our own satellite TV station. We petrochemical ecosystem cannot yield optimal can share ideas with millions of people in seconds profit or create the jobs and wealth. on Facebook, or instagram. Similarly the mere fact that you have large tracts of Arthur Clarke, the British sci-fi writer, once said arable land for agriculture does not mean you will that "any sufficiently advanced technology is not succeed in agriculture and become wealthy. Or as indistinguishable from magic". If you follow some a nation feed yourself. Anybody can plant a seed of the awe-inspiring trends in technology over the and expect a harvest. past years, much of his statement appear true, as the coming years look set to be one of the most But the reason why most farmers are poor is spectacular magic shows. Last year, DeepMind, a because they add no value to what they produce deep learning outfit, announced that one of its by processing, packaging, or making other healthcare algorithms could detect over 50 eye products .out of the raw harvest. And also because diseases as accurately as a trained doctor. they do not have access to cutting edge innovations and inventions in farm inputs and Only recently we witnessed the trial run of an AI farming techniques, Those who can add value to news anchor on the Chinese Xinhua News station, the farmers harvest become wealthier than the and the unveiling of a digital assistant that can farmer So the growers of the raw materials are the mimic the voice of humans with uncanny likeness weakest in the value chain and the poorest. For under the name of 'Google Duplex'. There are example the man who makes chocolates from provinces in China that are trying out AI teachers in cocoa is bound to be richer than the cocoa farmer. remote villages where graduates and young people are not likely to stay. He has added value to the raw cocoa by processing, and designing and packing the In 2018, a world first was recorded an AI system chocolates in appealing wrappers, by adding engaged in a two-way debate with a human value he will create more jobs, and more wealth.

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So while we will always need the traditional quickly and efficiently and even answer legal professionals, doctors, lawyers, accountants and questions. bankers etc but those adding value to their services will make more money than they can. Judges and lawyers subscribe to it and use this very lucrative value addition to legal practice. Yet So those developing AI for giving legal advice or the founder and CEO of the company is not a medical diagnoses, or accounting, or banking will lawyer. So today there are opportunities for be more successful than the professionals entrepreneurs to build their businesses around the themselves. So the future of banking and financial traditional professions without being professionals services doesn't belong to banks as we know them themselves. - it belongs to the fin techs and other technology enabled solutions. For example we have KiaKia The most widely read on line publications are who, using artificial intelligence (AI) and neither owned nor in by trained journalists. Naira algorithms, can process loan requests in minutes land was started by two Obafemi Awolowo and grant credit without the hassles of regular University students while still in school. Even banks. Kuda: Bank for example, is a bank without many of the most successful on line advertising or a single physical branch, with all its features built PR companies have no formal training in these into a mobile app. Eyowo, another example, a disciplines. Most are self thought. payment services company, designed our payment platforms for identifying, enumerating, My nephew a lawyer is establishing an organic paying to and collecting repayments from 2.2 farm and poultry after taking on line classes. But million TraderMoni and MarketMoni beneficiaries. let me direct your minds also to the new areas for job opportunities. Data Science- is one big area, They have revolutionized financial inclusion, currently we leave vast amounts of data online and making and receiving payments from the farthest in the near future companies will need data parts of Nigeria, Pay stack, whose founders are scientists to go through it all and generate answers just over 30, have developed applications that t o b u s i n e s s q u e s t i o n s a n d m a k e make it easier to make payments across the world. recommendations based on their findings. Many Invest Bamboo, for example, which was started by businesses already spend time and money going two 26-year-olds, offers new ways for you to save through people's data so that they can sell them money and invest in stocks all from a single app. products. This is a new area of opportunities for jobs. Others have developed technologies that make it possible for you to invest in a farm without ever A big area today is Content Production seeing the farm. Thrive agric and Farm rowdy are great examples of the service providers that help 3D / 2D animation, Virtual effects and Special small-scale farmers scale up, and access valuable effects as well as augmented reality and virtual training - and all through crowdfunding. reality. The use of animation in education, entertainment and media generally is growing in In the world of medicine and health care there is leaps and bounds. Those who can create content Life Bank, owned by Temi Giwa-Tunbosun, this is with animation are being and will be much sought a health tech startup, using drones to facilitate after in the years to come. According to a recent blood delivery to various health centres. Or we survey by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, could take 54gene, another example, which is a multimedia artists and animators are among the firm that is harnessing genomic data from African highest paid within the US workforce. This has DNA to revolutionize drug research, changing the translated to more jobs for animators in emerging future of medicine. Even in the usually economies such as India, Vietnam and now conservative legal profession entrepreneurs are Nigeria. disrupting old trends. There is a digital legal research company. Law pavilion the company's The average pay of a 3D animator in Nigeria who digital tools help lawyers to do legal research has just started out after learning his trade could

MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 09 22nd June, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 12 be in the region of N250,000-N500,000, monthly. will continue to be an important skill in getting viable employment. Also remember that Content is becoming more in demand with the streaming wars that has engulfed So today the most successful businesses are Netflix, Apple, Disney, HBO and only recently those adding value. Even our culture can become Airtel launched its own streaming service in a great wealth creator but only if we add value. So Nigeria. Then we have the whole range of just doing traditional dances is not enough, eight CYBERSECURITY. Today there are new or so barefooted women dancing when guests are opportunities for cyber security specialists. How? - visiting cannot make money. organizing dance With each technological advance comes the dramas, where there is a story a romantic story, a implied addition of more security risks. tragic story, set into music, where there is a script writer, a composer and arranger, a director is how Therefore, cybersecurity will continue to be a money is made from cultural dances. growing sector. In this sense, each country will have its own specific regulations on top of In our future, there is truly something for everyone. international regulations, which will ensure that We should all take advantage of digital professionals with an advanced technological technology, especially social media and the background, capable of nullifying new threats various platforms on offer, to grow a customer posed to both technology and people, will be in base, gain traction and advance businesses. You demand. can write a blog, develop a website to sell your products or even your ideas - whatever it is you How about 3D printing? 3D PRINTING- know how to do best.

Printing will become as relevant and fundamental People are running fully-fledged commercial in the future as artificial intelligence and robotics businesses on Instagram without a single physical will be. Experts in 3D printing must possess shop - an opportunity only made possible by the creative skills with the ability to improve the internet. We: are an entrepreneurial people, a profitability and applicability of models, and also society of multitaskers who, thanks to the virtual have computer skills and knowledge of 3D printing economy, can make real opportunity out of so- tools. called passion projects. What is your. passion?

The federal government recently established a How can you take the skills that you have, and add humanitarian hub in Adamawa State. In that hub value to the world around you? I have seen videos young Nigerians are making artificial limbs with 3D tutorials on how to make the best soups, or bake printing. Madam Vice Chancellor, The technical the best: cakes, getting hundreds of thousands of revolution from the last few decades has views on Instagram and YouTube. YouTubers like considerably changed the business and cultural Dimma Umeh are showing us how to do makeup, world. Currently we live in an "application how to master that highlight and contour, and she economy" as a result of the amount of technology told us in one video that she made her first million and mobility that surrounds us with our from YouTube! Some are simply showing people smartphone applications' that we depend on for how to knot a tie! A simple tie o! Thousands of everything from mobile banking to health views. monitoring. Thanks to the social media age, whatever ideas As such it is difficult to find a reason why you and skills that you have can be leveraged for shouldn't try to find a career related to technology, benefit. Your knowledge is of immense importance especially when we consider that it is already and you have to find creative ways to take present in everything we do, from professionally in advantage of that, while it is easier than ever to sell our companies to our personal lives as your knowledge and skills, it has also become consumers. This means computer programming easier - and cheaper - for you to acquire them.

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"The Mobile Prof' in Lagos, for example, is changing as never before, driven by inexorable teaching people how to code from their mobile forces that have an impact not only on phones - you don't even need a laptop anymore! professional services but on manufacturing and trade, global supply chains and the digitalization of The future is about self education and Self the global economy to name just a few. So for development. Invest a little in the incredible example the supervision work that managers do is opportunities for on line education. Years ago it changing rapidly and there may be no more need was impossible to do a specialized course in a for it. leading international university without getting an admission paying a lot of money and travelling A young lady who owns a clothing store in Abuja abroad today you can sit in the comfort of your and Lagos, who lives in Abuja was showing me home and get an Ivy League education. how she can remotely see all that is going on in her Universities such as Harvard University and shop in Lagos on her lap top real time. And she can Dartmouth College, for example, offer full- time speak to all her employees from her laptop real online courses on Data Science and Linux time. In other words she can supervise her store Programming through an online learning platform herself from anywhere in the world. So the type of called EdX. manager you will need going forward will be a different type. This means, you can learn a whole new programming language in a year, for less than it Education today must be education for will cost you to even get to America! There a new employability, not just or its own sake. So our means of self-education and they are more curricula must be versatile. The focus must be on accessible than you might have thought. innovation, critical'. thinking, interdisciplinary thinking, design thinking, synergising and There is no question that an exciting future lies collaboration with others across the world to solve ahead. There are breakthroughs in radical problems. technologies, capable of disrupting whole industries, and perhaps even our very conception The era of cramming teacher's notes and of work itself. For higher institutions that are regurgitating for high grades is over. The graduate getting graduates ready for the world of work, for of the future is a problem solver, a thinker, an the graduates and near graduates who are here entrepreneur. Our educators, policy makers, today, what does the disruption of the workforce by schools, universities must now adapt their emerging technologies signify for both livelihoods curricula, policies and projects to improve the and employment? skills that enable the graduate adapt nimbly' to the constantly changing world of work. Today, there are several important implications related to the fields of 'Artificial Intelligence and A student of humanities today equipped with the Emerging Technologies that will shape work and right skills and mindset will be a crucial part in the economies. So we have seen for example that collaboration required to build an application that much of what is considered analytical work by will redefine an aspect of business. Steve Jobs, lawyers, investment bankers, accountants, and the founder of apple was more an artist than a other age-old professions will be performed better computer scientist. A man or woman of ideas no by machines in a fraction of the time that humans matter your degree can become in collaboration can. So there is a need to train these professionals with others the designers and owners of the next differently, and with these new opportunities and app that will make billions and create jobs for challenges in mind. millions. This is the exciting future ahead of us, the opportunities are limitless Go for it! With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the world of work is in a state of flux,

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION RE: MORATORIUM ON PART-TIME PROGRAMMES he National Universities Commission, cognizant of 8. Enugu State University of Science and Technology, the need to streamline the operations of Part Time Enugu State Tand Sandwich programmes in Nigerian 9. Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Education, universities, had through a publication in the print media, Port Harcourt including the Guardian and Sun Newspapers of Monday, 10. Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State 19th March, 2012, placed a moratorium on admission into 11. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, parttime programmes in Nigerian universities. In the Ogbomoso publication, the universities were requested to fully 12. , Ojo, Lagos State disclose all Part-Time and Sandwich programmes, with 13. , Amasoma, Bayelsa State respect to enrolment and staffing profile, within four weeks 14. Anambra State University, Uli, Anambra State of the publication, and to conduct in-house staff and student 15. , Abakaliki, Eboyi State audit and forward same to the Commission. As a follow up 16. Cross River State University of Technology, Calabar to this, the Commission vide a letter dated 14 January, 2013, 17. , Uturu, Abia State sent a reminder to the universities requesting those that 18. , Osun State were yet to provide information on their Part-Time and 19. Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa State Sandwich programmes as well as affiliation arrangements to do so on or before15 February, 2013. C. Private Universities: 1. , Abeokuta, Ogun State 2.0. Universities That Made Submission 2. , Imota, Lagos State 3. Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State Based on the submissions received, a total of forty (40) 4. Lead City university, Ibadan, Oyo State universities indicated that they would run Part-Time 5. , Owo, Ondo State and Sandwich programmes as detailed below: 6. Benson Idahosa University, Benin – City, Edo State 7. , Umunya, Anambra State A. Federal Universities 8. Wesley University of Science and Technology, 1. Federal University of Technology, Owerri Ondo, Ondo State 2. University of Benin, Benin 3. , Calabar 3.0. APPROVALS GRANTED TO UNIVERSITIES 4. TO RUN PART–TIME/ SANDWICH 5. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka PROGRAMMES. 6. University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt Up to date, a total of thirty six (36) universities forwarded 7. , Uyo their completed documents, based on the approved format. 8. , Abuja Following the analysis of the submissions by the 9. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta Department of Academic Standards and having satisfied 10. Michael Okpara University, Umudike the laid down guidelines for running Part – Time 11. Moddibbo Adamawa University of Technology, Yola programme and Sandwich courses in Nigerian 12. University of Agriculture, Markurdi universities, all the thirty six (36) institutions were 13. Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto recommended to the Executive Secretary for approval. 14. University of Jos, Jos Consequent upon Executive Secretary’s approval, letters were communicated to the universities accordingly. The B. State Universities universities are: 1. Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo State A. Federal Universities 2. Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago- Iwoye, Ogun State 1. University of Lagos 3. Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State 2. University of Port Harcourt 4. Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba- Akoko, Ondo 3. University of Calabar State 4. University of Benin 5. Imo State University, Owerri, Imo State 5. University of Abuja 6. Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun 6. University of Uyo State 7. University of Jos 7. of Science and Technology, 8. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile – Ife Port Harcourt 9. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka

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10. Federal University of Agriculture, GUIDELINES ON PART-TIME AND SANDWICH Abeokuta PROGRAMMES IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES 11. Federal University of Technology, Owerri 12. Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto Below are guidelines for conducting Part-time and Sandwich 13. Bayero University, Kano programmes in Nigerian universities. All universities currently B. State Universities operating Part-time programmes are expected to comply with 1. Ekiti State University, Ado – Ekiti, Ekiti the guidelines on programme by programme basis. State 2. Cross River State University, Calabar, Consequently, universities still interested in running Part-time Cross River State programmes are advised to forward fresh applications to the 3. Imo State University, Owerri, Imo State NUC on programme by programme basis. 4. Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State 5. Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, This is, however, subject to the readiness of the university to Ogun State comply with the following extant guidelines on part-time 6. Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo programmes: State 7. Enugu State University of Science & 1. The admission and graduation requirements, Staffing, Technology, Enugu State Library and physical facilities requirements must be in line 8. Tai Solarin University of Education, with the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards Ijagun, Ogun State (BMAS) for the various full-time academic programmes; 9. Rivers State University of Science & 2. For a programme to be eligible to run on part-time basis, the Technology, Port Harcourt approved full-time equivalent must be available in the 10. Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Eboyi university, must have earned full accreditation and must be State run within approved campuses; 11. Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue 3. The enrolment into part-time programmes must not exceed State 12. Niger Delta University, Yenagoa, Bayelsa 20% of total students’ population in the programme; State 4. The minimum duration of the part-time programmes must 13. Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State be 150% of the approved duration of the Full-Time 14. Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba – equivalent; Akoko, Ondo State 5. Approval shall not be granted for part-time programmes in 15. Anambra State University, Uli, Anambra Environmental Sciences, Engineering/Technology, Law, State Medicine/Medical Sciences, Pharmacy /Pharmaceutical 16. Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun State Sciences, Dentistry; and Veterinary Science; 17. Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State 6. All admissions into part-time programmes must be through 18. Nasarawa State University, Keffi, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Nasarawa State. Part-time programmes must be run within approved campuses of universities where the human and material C. Private Universities resources for the teaching of the programmes are domiciled, 1. Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State i.e. on the main campus of the university; 2. Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State 7. Part-time programmes shall be subjected to the NUC 3. Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State 4. Lead City university, Ibadan, Oyo State accreditation assessment upon maturity of the programme; 5. Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State 8. For any programme to be eligible for part-time mode, it 6. Benson Idahosa University, Benin – City, must have produced two (2) sets of graduates and satisfied Edo State the Resource Verification Requirements. 7. Wesley University of Science and 9. Commencement of a part-time programme MUST be Technology, Ondo, Ondo State subject to NUC’s approval. Approval of commencement of 8. , Osogbo all parttime programmes must be obtained. 9. , Ogun State The National Universities Commission shall not hesitate to apply appropriate sanctions on any university which violates Dr. Noel Biodun Saliu any of the stipulated Guidelines on Part-Time and Sandwich Director, Academic Planning Programmes. Signed For: Executive Secretary Management

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FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES Year Year Year S/N INSTITUTIONS Est. S/N INSTITUTIONS Est. S/N INSTITUTIONS Est. Modibbo Adama University of Federal University, Wukari, 1 , Ibadan 1948 16 1981 31 2011 Technology, Yola Taraba State Federal University of Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, 2 University of Nigeria, Nsukka 17 1982 32 2011 1960 Technology, Minna Katsina State Obafemi Awolowo Nigerian Defence Academy, Federal University, Dutse, 3 University, 1962 18 1985 33 2011 Ile-Ife Kaduna Jigawa State Federal University, Ndufu- 1988 34 2011 4 , Zaria 1962 19 University of Abuja, Abuja Alike, Ebonyi State Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 1988 35 2011 5 University of Lagos, Lagos 1962 20 University, Bauchi Ekiti State University of Agriculture, Federal University, Otuoke, University of Benin, Benin City 21 1988 36 2011 6 1970 Makurdi Bayelsa Federal University of The Nigeria Police Academy, 7 22 1988 37 2012 Bayero University, Kano 1975 Agriculture, Abeokuta Wudil, Kano State 1975 23 University of Uyo, Uyo 1991 38 Federal University, Birnin- 2013 8 University of Calabar, Calabar Kebbi, Kebbi Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Federal University, Gusau, 9 , Ilorin 1975 24 1992 39 2013 Awka Zamfara Michael Okpara University Federal University, Gashua, 10 University of Jos, Jos 1975 25 1992 40 2013 of Agriculture, Umudike Yobe University of Maiduguri, National Open University of Nigeria Maritine University 11 1975 26 2002 41 2018 Maiduguri Nigeria, Lagos Okerenkoko, Delta State Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Fed. Univ. of Petroleum Air Force Institute of 12 1975 27 2007 42 2018 Sokoto Resources, Effurun Technology, Kaduna University of Port-Harcourt, Federal University, Lokoja, Nigerian Army University, 13 1975 28 2011 43 2018 Port-Harcourt Kogi State Biu 14 Federal University of Tech- 29 Federal University, Lafia, 2011 nology, Owerri 1980 Nasarawa State Federal University of Federal University, Kashere, 15 1981 30 2011 Technology, Akure Gombe State STATE UNIVERSITIES Year Year Year S/N INSTITUTIONS Est. S/N INSTITUTIONS Est. S/N INSTITUTIONS Est. Rivers State University of Science Nasarawa State University, Ignatius Ajuru University of 1 1979 18 2002 2010 & Technology, Port Harcourt Keffi 35 Education, Rumuolumeni Ambrose Alli University, , , 2 1980 19 2002 36 Ekpoma Mubi Gadau 2011 Abia State University, , 3 1981 20 2004 37 Maitama Sule University, Uturu Gombe Kano 2012 Enugu State University of , 4 21 2004 The Technical University, Science & Tech, Enugu 1982 Kaduna 38 2012 Ibadan. Olabisi Onabanjo University, Cross River University of 5 1982 22 2004 , Ago-Iwoye Technology, Calabar 39 2013 Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. , Kafin Hausa 6 1982 23 (formerly University of Ado-Ekiti) Bokkos 2005 Ondo State University of 2015 40 Medical Sciences Lagos State University, 24 Olusegun Agagu University of Science 7 Ojo, Lagos 1983 and Technology, Okitipupa, Ondo State. 2008 41 Edo University, Iyamho 2016 Ladoke Akintola University of Ibrahim Babangida University, 8 1990 25 2005 Technology, Ogbomoso Lapai, Niger State 42 Eastern Palm University, Imo State University, Tai Solarin University of Ogboko 2016 9 1992 26 2005 Owerri Education, Ijagun University of Africa, Benue State University, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua 43 10 27 2006 Toru-Orua 2016 Makurdi 1992 University, Katsina Delta State University, 44 Borno State University 2016 11 Abraka 1992 28 Damaturu, Yobe State 2006 Moshood Abiola University of Adekunle Ajasin University, Kebbi State University of 45 2017 12 1999 29 2006 Science and Technology, Abeokuta Akungba - Akoko Science and Technology, Aliero , Gombe State U n i v e r s i t y o f S c i e n c e 2017 13 30 Osun State University, 46 Anyigba 1999 Osogbo 2006 and Technology, Kumo Niger-Delta University, Zamfara State U n i v e r s i t y , 2018 14 , 2008 47 Yenagoa 2000 31 Jalingo Talata-Mafara Chukwuemeka Odumegwu , Bayelsa Medical University 2009 48 2019 15 Ojukwu University, Uli 2000 32 Ilorin Yenagoa, Bayelsa State Kano University of Science , 16 2000 33 & Technology, Wudil Sokoto 2009 17 Ebonyi State University, 2000 Akwa Ibom State University, Abakaliki 34 Ikot Ikpaden 2010

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Year Year Year S/N Est. S/N Est. S/N Est. Hallmark University, 1 , Ilishan 1999 27 Salem University, Lokoja 2007 2015 Remo 53 Ijebu, Itele, Ogun State Madonna University, Tansian University, Umunya, Kings University, Ode Omu, 2 1999 28 2007 2015 Okija Anambra State 54 Osun State Igbinedion University, Michael and Cecilia Ibru 3 1999 29 Veritas University, Abuja 2007 55 2015 Okada Uni., Owhrode, Delta State Wesley University of Science , 4 , Iwo 2001 30 2007 56 2015 & Technology, Ondo Ogun State , Ota 31 , 2007 , Ikot 5 2002 Oghara, Delta State 57 Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State 2015 The Achievers University, Pan-Atlantic University, 2002 32 2007 Summit University, 6 Lagos Owo 58 Offa, Kwara State 2015 African University of Science Edwin Clark University, Benson Idahosa University, 2002 33 2007 59 2015 7 Benin City & Technology, Abuja Kiagbodo, Delta State Afe Babalola University, 8 American University of 34 2009 60 , 2015 Nigeria, Yola 2003 Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Umudi, Imo State Redeemers University, Ede, Godfrey Okoye University, Anchor University, Ayobo, 9 2005 35 2009 61 2016 Osun State Ugwuomu-Nike, Enugu State Lagos State Arthur Jarvis University, Nile University of Nigeria, 62 2016 Ajayi Crowther University, 36 2009 Akpabuyo, Cross River State 10 Oyo 2005 Abuja 63 Clifford University, Owerrinta, Al-Hikmah University, , Abia State 2016 11 37 2009 Ilorin 2005 Ipetumodu, Osun State , Enugu, 64 Enugu State 2016 12 , Amorji- 38 , Awka, 2005 Anambra State 2009 Crown Hill University, Nke, Enugu 65 Eiyenkorin, Kwara State 2016 Bingham University, Auta- , 13 2005 39 2009 Dominican University, Balefi, Karu, Nasarawa State Aba 66 Ibadan, Oyo State 2016 , 14 Al-Qalam University, Katsina 2005 Koladaisi University, Ibadan, 40 Evbuobanosa, Edo State 2009 67 Oyo State 2016 , Legacy University, Okija, 15 Adeleke University, Ede, 68 2016 Enugu 2005 41 Osun State 2011 Anambra State Bells University of Tech, Admiralty University, Ibusa, 2017 16 2005 42 69 Delta State Ota, Ogun State , Abuja 2011 Lead City University, Ibadan, 70 Spiritan University, Nneochi, 2017 2005 43 , Omu- Abia State 17 Oyo State Aran, Kwara State 2011 Crawford University, 71 Precious Cornerstone University, 2017 18 2005 Samuel Adegboyega University, Ibadan, Oyo State Igbesa, Ogun State 44 Ogwa, Edo State 2011 , Wukari , Ilara- 72 2017 19 2005 (formerly Wukari Jubilee Uni.) 45 Mokin, Ondo State 2012 Crescent University, Evangel University, 73 Atiba University, Oyo, 2017 20 2005 46 2012 Oyo State Abeokuta Akaeze, Ebonyi State , Ogume, Gregory University, Eko University of Medical 2017 21 2005 47 74 Sciences, Ijanikin, Lagos State Delta State Uturu, Abia State 2012 McPherson University, Seriki 75 Skyline University, Nigeria 2018 22 , Mkar 2005 48 Sotayo, Ajebo, Ogun State 2012 Kano State Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Southwestern University, 76 , Kasarami 2019 23 2006 49 2012 Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State Okun Owa, Ogun State Kaduna State Augustine, University, 77 Dominion University, 2019 24 Caleb University, Lagos 2007 50 Ilara, Lagos State 2015 Ibadan Oyo State , 78 Trinity University, Laloko 2019 25 Fountain University, Osogbo 51 2015 2007 Owode, Ogun State Ogun State , 79 Westland University, Iwo 26 Obong University, Obong 2007 52 2015 2019 Ntak Mowe, Ogun State Osun State

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List of Universities with Approved Postgraduate Programmes The National Universities Commission (NUC) has observed with great concern that some Nigerian universities are running unapproved postgraduate programmes, leading to the award of Masters and PhD degrees. The Commission has also observed that some Parastatals and Institutes are awarding these same Postgraduate degrees, either on their own or through unapproved affiliations with Nigerian and foreign Universities. Such practices are not only unethical, but also antithetical to time-tested quality assurance best practices. The qualifications/awards resulting therefrom are not recognized. The Commission hereby notifies the general public that only the following universities have approval to offer postgraduate programmes at the Masters’ and Ph.D levels in Nigeria, as of 30th July, 2012: Federal Universities : 1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi 17. University of Calabar, Calabar 2. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria 18. University of Ibadan, Ibadan 3. Bayero University, Kano 19. University of llorin, llorin 4. Federal University of Technology, Akure 20. University of Jos, Jos 5. Federal University of Technology, Minna 21. University of Lagos, Akoka 6. Federal University of Technology, Owerri 22. University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri 7. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike 23. University of Nigeria, Nsukka 8. Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola 24. University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt 9. National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos. 25. University of Uyo, Uyo 10. Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna 26. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto 11. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka 27. Federal University, Lafia 12. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 28. Federal University, Ndufu-alike 13. University of Abuja, Gwagwalada 29. Federal University, Dutse 14. University of Agriculture, Abeokuta 30. Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun 15. University of Agriculture, Makurdi 31. Federal University, Oye-ekiti 16. University of Benin, Benin City 32. Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna State Universities : 1. Abia State University, Uturu 17. Niger-Delta University, Wilberforce Island 2. Adamawa State University, Mubi 18. Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye 3. Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko 19. Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt 4. Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma 20. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina 5. Anambra State University, Uli 21. Gombe State University, Gombe 6. Benue State University, Makurdi 22. Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai 7. Cross River University of Technology, Calabar 23. Kano State University of Science and Technology, Wudil 8. Delta State University, Abraka 24. Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero 9. Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki 25. Kwara State University Malete 10. Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti 26. Kaduna State University, Kaduna 11. Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu 27. Bauchi State University, Gadau 12. Imo State University, Owerri 28. Yobe State University, Damaturu 13. Kogi State University, Anyigba 29. Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni 14. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso 30. Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-ode 15. Lagos State University, Ojo. 31. Osun State University, Osogbo 16. Nasarawa State University, Keffi Private Universities : 1. African University of Science and Technology, Abuja 17. Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin (MSc. only) 2. American University of Nigeria, Yola 18. Godfrey Okoye University, Ugwuomu-Nike, Enugu State 3. Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo 19. Adeleke University, Ede 4. Benson Idahosa University, Benin City 20. Veritas University, Abuja 5. Bowen University, Iwo 21. Achievers University, Owo 6. Covenant University, Ota 22. Al-Qalam University, Katsina 7. Igbinedion University, Okada 23. Baze University, Abuja 8. Pan-African University, Lekki 24. Bells University of Technology, Ota 9. Redeemer’s University, Mowe, Ogun State 25. Crawford University, Igbessa 10. Caleb University, Lagos 26. Crescent University, Abeokuta 11. Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State 27. Fountain University, Osogbo 12. Nigerian Turkish Nile University, Abuja 28. Landmark University, Omu-Aran 13. Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State 29. Novena University, Ogume 14. Lead City University, Ibadan, (MSc. only) 30. Salem University, Lokoja 15. University of Mkar, Mkar (MSc. only) 31. Veritas University, Abuja 16. Madonna University Okija 32. Bingham University, Karu Employers of labour, educational institutions and other stakeholders are to note that only certificates issued by these universities, for their approved programmes, are valid for employment, further studies and other purposes. When in doubt about the status of any programme or certificate, the National Universities Commission should be contacted through [email protected] and the following telephone numbers: 08027455412, 07054407741, 08067787753, 07039254081 and 07082024412 (FAX). Further information can also be obtained from the Commission’s website: www.nuc.edu.ng Signed: MANAGEMENT Fourteen-Step Process for the Establishment of Private Universities in Nigeria The National Universities Commission (NUC), wishes to announce 7. Interactive meeting of SCOPU with the proposed university to the general public, especially prospective promoters of private 8. First site assessment visit universities, the fourteen-step procedure for establishing private 9. Finalisation of document universities in Nigeria. 10. Second (final) site assessment visit 1. Application in writing stating the intent for the 11. Security screening of proprietors and Board of Trustees establishment of the university 12. Approval by NUC Management 2. Interview of prospective proprietors 13. Approval by NUC Board 3. Collection of application forms 14. Approval by FEC 4. Submission of application forms and relevant documents 5. Intensive review/analysis of documents by experts in relevant Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, mni, MFR, FNAL NUC departments Executive Secretary, NUC 6. Revision of documents by proprietors, based on report of SCOPU Announcer

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT List of Illegal Universities Closed Down by NUC

he National Universities Commission (NUC) wishes to announce to 37) Leadway University, Ughelli, Delta State the general public, especially parents and prospective 38) Metro University, Dutse/Bwari, Abuja Tundergraduates, that the under-listed “Degree Mills” have not been 39) Southend University, Ngwuro Egeru (Afam) Ndoki, Rivers State licensed by the Federal Government and have, therefore, been closed down 40) Olympic University, Nsukka, Enugu State for violating the Education (National Minimum Standards etc.) Act CAP E3 41) Federal College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Law of the Federation of Nigeria 2004. The “Universities” are: Abuja. 42) Temple University, Abuja 1) University of Accountancy and Management Studies, operating 43) Irish University Business School London, operating anywhere in anywhere in Nigeria. Nigeria. 2) Christians of Charity American University of Science & 44) National University of Technology, Lafia, Nasarawa State. Technology, Nkpor, Anambra State or any of its other campuses 45) University of Accountancy and Management Studies, Mowe, 3) University of Industry, Yaba, Lagos or any of its other campuses Lagos - Ibadan Expressway and its Annex at 41, Ikorodu Road, 4) University of Applied Sciences & Management, Port Novo, Lagos. Republic of Benin or any of its other campuses in Nigeria 46) University of Education, Winneba Ghana, operating anywhere in 5) Blacksmith University, Awka or any of its other campuses Nigeria. 6) Volta University College, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana or any of its 47) Cape Coast University, Ghana, operating anywhere in Nigeria. other campuses in Nigeria 48) African University Cooperative Development (AUCD), Cotonou, 7) Royal University Izhia, P.O. Box 800, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State or Benin Republic, operating anywhere in Nigeria. any of its other campuses 49) Pacific Western University, Denver, Colorado, Owerri Study 8) Atlanta University, Anyigba, Kogi State or any of its other Centre. campuses 50) Evangel University of America & Chudick Management 9) United Christian University, Macotis Campus, Imo State or any of Academic, Lagos its other campuses. 51) Enugu State University of Science and Technology (Gboko 10) United Nigeria University College, Okija, Anambra State or any Campus) of its other campuses. 52) Career Light Resources Centre, Jos 11) Samuel Ahmadu University, Makurdi, Benue State or any of its 53) University of West Africa, Kwali-Abuja, FCT other campuses. 54) Coastal University, Iba-Oku, Akwa-Ibom State 12) UNESCO University, Ndoni, Rivers State or any of its other 55) Kaduna Business School, Kaduna campuses. 56) Royal University of Theology, Minna, Niger State 13) Saint Augustine’s University of Technology, Jos, Plateau State or 57) West African Union University, in Collaboration with any of its other campuses International Professional College of Administration, Science and 14) The International University, Missouri, USA, Kano and Lagos Technology Nigeria, operating anywhere in Nigeria. Study Centres, or any of its campuses in Nigeria 58) Gospel Missionary Foundation (GMF), Theological University. 15) Collumbus University, UK operating anywhere in Nigeria 165 Iselo road, Cele bus stop, Egbe-Ikotun, Lagos. 16) Tiu International University, UK operating anywhere in Nigeria 17) Pebbles University, UK operating anywhere in Nigeria` In addition to the closure, the following Degree Mills are currently 18) London External Studies UK operating anywhere in Nigeria. undergoing further investigations and/or ongoing court actions. The purpose 19) Pilgrims University operating anywhere in Nigeria. of these actions is to prosecute the proprietors and recover illegal fees and 20) Lobi Business School Makurdi, Benue State or any of its charges on subscribers. campuses in Nigeria. 21) West African Christian University operating anywhere in Nigeria. 1) National University of Nigeria, Keffi, Nasarawa State 22) Bolta University College Aba or any of its campuses in Nigeria. 2) North Central University, Otukpo, Benue State 23) JBC Seminary Inc. (Wukari Jubilee University) Kaduna Illegal 3) Christ Alive Christian Seminary and University, Enugu Campus 4) Richmond Open University, Arochukwu, Abia State. 24) Westlan University, Esie, Kwara State or any of its campuses in 5) West Coast University, Umuahia. Nigeria. 6) Saint Clements University, Iyin Ekiti, Ekiti State 25) St. Andrews University College, Abuja or any of its campuses in 7) Volta University College, Aba, Abia State. Nigeria. 8) Illegal Satellite Campuses of Ambrose Alli University. 26) EC-Council University, USA, Ikeja Lagos Study Centre. 9) L.I.F.E Leadership University, Benin City, Edo State. 27) Atlas University, Ikot Udoso Uko, Uyo Akwa Ibom State or any of its campuses in Nigeria For the avoidance of doubt, anybody who patronises or obtains any 28) Concept College/Universities (London) Ilorin or any of its certificate from any of these illegal institutions does so at his or her own risk. campuses in Nigeria Certificates obtained from these sources will not be recognised for the 29) Halifax Gateway University, Ikeja or any of its campuses in purposes of NYSC, employment, and further studies. Nigeria 30) Kingdom of Christ University, Abuja or any of its campuses in The relevant Law enforcement agencies have also been informed for their Nigeria further necessary action. 31) Acada University, Akinlalu, Oyo State or any of its campuses in Nigeria. * This list of illegal institutions is not exhaustive. 32) Fifom University, Mbaise, Imo State or any of its campuses in Nigeria Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, mni, MFR, FNAL 33) Houdegbe North American University campuses in Nigeria. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 34) Atlantic Intercontinental University, Okija, Anambra State NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION 35) Open International University, Akure ANNOUNCER 36) Middle Belt University (North Central University), Otukpo MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 15 15th June, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 11

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