President Muhammadu Buhari currently presiding over the first Federal Executive Council (FEC) Meeting of the year 2021. [PHOTO CREDIT: @BashirAhmaad] |
The 20 new private universities are to be given provisional licenses to run for three years while the ministry monitors and evaluates their growth.The Federal Executive Council has approved a memo from the Ministry of Education for the establishment of 20 new private universities across the country.
This brings the total number of private universities in the
country to 99.
Briefing journalists at the State House on the outcome of
the meeting, Mr Adamu said the approved universities will get their provisional
licences from the National Universities Commission (NUC).
He gave the names of the approved institutions as 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
the 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.
Also during the meeting, members observed a minute of
silence for two late cabinet members who died recently.
The minute of silence was observed just before the
commencement of the weekly meeting which was presided over by President
Muhammadu Buhari Council Chambers of the
State House.
The former members are Alfa Wali and Tony Momoh.
Wali, a prominent Kano State indigene and former Minister of
Agriculture, died on Monday, January 25th, 2021.
He also served as Permanent Secretary in many ministries,
including the Ministry of Defence.
The late Momoh was a veteran journalist and politician who
was Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture during the military regime of
General Ibrahim Babangida, who died on February 1, 2020, at the age of 82.
The Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President,
Ibrahim Gambari, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj. Gen. Babagana
Mongunu, as well as seven ministers physically, attended the meeting.
The ministers included Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, and Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
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