License Palaver.,.NUC shuts down universities

The National Universities Commission, NUC, on Thursday denied 11 private universities operating in Nigeria full operational licenses for their inability to meet set standards three years after they were issued provisional licenses.
According to Premium Times, this has been attributed to their failure to meet the required standards three years after they were issued provisional licenses.

This was revealed by the NUC Executive Secretary, Julius Okojie during the presentation of the full operational licenses to nine other private universities. He stated that the affected universities were given a time frame of 2 years to up their standard but they failed to do so even in 3 years. The affected universities are Wesley University of Science and Technology, Landmark University, Rhema University, Samuel Adegboyega University, Paul University, Oduduwa University, Tansian University, Baze University, Obong University, Achievers University and Wellspring University. He noted that the universities were also to be monitored by NUC to ensure that they comply with the original purpose of establishment. He said: “That was also part of NUC’s initiative for early warning signals to detect compromises in quality for the application of corrective and remedial measures to redress such situations,” “If we don’t monitor them now they will have problems. So they will slow down on programmes, (we) look at their staff strength and look at their programmes,” Meanwhile, the nine universities that received full operational licenses are Veritas University, Caleb University, Geofery Okoye University, Fountain University, Adeleke University, Western Delta University, Afe Babalola University, Salem University and Nigerian Turkish Nile University.