NUC says Nigeria has 141 accredited universities

The breakdown of the number of universities include 40 Federal, 40 State and 61 private universities.

The Nigerian University Commission, NUC, on Wednesday, disclosed that 141 Universities in Nigeria has been accredited.

This development was made known by Professor Julius Okojie, Executive Secretary of NUC while briefing the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, and Minister of State for Education, Professor Anthony Anwukah on the activities of the Commission.

PM News reports that Okojie gave the breakdown of the number of universities to include 40 Federal, 40 State and 61 private universities, adding that the institutions now rank very high among international community system.

He mentioned that since creation. the NUC has grown day-to-day and are achieving their objective of improving the access and quality of University Education in Nigeria.

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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, in his own report, said that JAMB has continued to improve on its services thereby easing the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and speedy release of result of the examination which is now completely computerized.

Ojerinde, however, decried the discriminatory cut-off marks of 180 and 150 respectively adopted each year by the policy Committee in favour of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, stressing that the practice defeats the aim of the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination.