The Federal Government has increased the application fee for new private universities to N25 million, according to a memo by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abdullahi Ribadu, on Monday. The previous processing fee was N5 million. The NUC stated that the move was part of its efforts to reposition private universities in Nigeria to better …

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, said it would launch an investigation into private universities established in the last 15 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, made this known in Abuja while inaugurating the investigative panel on fake degrees and activities of degree mills in the country. Mamman said the investigation would show if the private institutions under investigation …

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given provisional licences to the newly established 37 universities approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on 15 May. According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, at the presentation of provisional licences to the universities, said that the number of private universities in the …