The National Universities Commission (NUC) yesterday unveiled its set goals for the revitalization of university’s system in the country.Part of the goals includes 20 percent increase in students’ access to university education and 20 percent reduction of manpower deficit in the university by 2023.

In the past, the nation’s educational institutions had a staff mix of international scholars teaching in both secondary and tertiary schools.

Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abubakar Adamu Rasheed has said that sexual harassment of female students...

The large number of public and private universities in Nigeria has not meant easy access to university education. Some stakeholders in the sector believe that is due to the low carrying capacity of the universities.

President Muhammad Buhari has accused universities’ management of gross financial impropriety. He raised the alarm at the weekend, during the 34th Convocation of Bayero University, Kano. The president stressed that the managements of many universities were also guilty of high handedness in the discharge of their duties. He expressed Federal Government’s concern about pending cases…

Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, who disclosed this at the 2017 NAL yearly convocation, scientific session and investiture of new Fellows, held at the University of Lagos.....

Receiving the documents, Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, warned that the proposed university is a huge capital-intensive project that might not yield financial returns in the short run.

The declaration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the winner of the April 16, 2011 presidential election had sparked off riots in some northern parts of the country following disagreements over election results.

President Buhari, who dropped the hint yesterday, at the 33rd Convocation ceremony of Bayero University Kano, disclosed that the Federal Government is concerned about the financial recklessness and high handedness of some university authorities.

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has tasked university graduates to embrace self-employment in agriculture and other gainful engagements to stem the tide of unemployment.

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has disclosed that fewer than 60 per cent of academic staff members and lecturers across Nigeria’s 143 universities have bagged the PhD degree.

The NUC had, the other day, claimed, after a meeting with vice-chancellors in Abuja that they “have taken far-reaching decisions on the university system to make it one of the world best.”