The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by former President Muhammadu Buhari had on May 15 approved the establishment of 37 private universities in the country.
The approval was made through the National Universities Commission (NUC).
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According to Permanent Secretary y, the Ministry of Education, Mr. David Adejo who spoke at the presentation of the licenses to the universities on Friday in Abuja, noted that the approval brought the number of private universities in Nigeria to 147 universities.
The new universities include:
- Rayhaan University, Kebbi state
Muhammad Kamaluddin University, Kwara state - Sam Maris University, Ondo State
- Aletheia University, Ago-Iwoye Ogun State
- Lux Mundi University Umuahia, Abia State
- Maduka University, Ekwegbe, Enugu State
- PeaceLand University, Enugu State
- Amadeus University, Am- izi, Abia State
- Vision University, Ikogbo, Ogun State
- Azman University, Kano State.
Also granted provisional approval by NUC are - Huda University, Gusau, Zamfara State
- Franco British International University, Kaduna State
- Canadian University of Nigeria, Abuja
- Miva Open University, Abuja FCT
- The Gerar University of Medical Science Imope Ijebu, Ogun State
- British Canadian University, Obudu Cross
River State - Hansard University, Toru-Orua, Sagbama, Bayelsa State
- Phoenix University, Agwada, Nasarawa State
- Wigwe University, Isiokpo Rivers State
The Hillside University of Science and - Technology, Oke- misi, Ekiti State
Others are - The University of Niger Umunya, Anambra State
- Elrazi Medical University Yargaya University, Kano State
- Ve- nite University, Iloro-Ekiti, Ekiti State
- Shanahan University Onitsha, Anambra State
- The Duke Medical University, Calabar, Cross River State
- Mercy Medical University, Iwo, Ogun State,
- Cosmopolitan University Abuja
- Iconic Open University, Sokoto State
- West Midlands Open University, Ibadan, Oyo State
- Amaj University, Kwali, Abuja
- Prime University, Kuje, FCT Abuja
- El-Amin University, Minna, Niger State
- College of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Kaduna State
- Jewel University, Gombe State
- Nigerian University of Technology and Management, Apapa, Lagos State
- Al-Muhibbah Open University, Abuja
Al-Bayan University, Ankpa, Kogi State.