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INTRODUCTION
Republic of Nigeria defines for each of the three tiers of government, Federal,
perform with respect to governance. But the constitution also identified a number
instruments known to reduce poverty and inequality. With proven benefits for
foundation for sustained economic growth. For individuals and nations, it is key to
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into goods and services, greater institutional capacity, a more effective public
sector, a stronger civil society, and a better investment climate. Good quality,
parts of this transformation. Both developing and industrial countries benefit from
the dynamic of the knowledge economy. The capacity for countries to adopt,
tertiary level. The National Policy on Education (1998) defines Tertiary Education
edition) are:
manpower training;
ii) To develop and inculcate proper values for the survival of society.
iv) To acquire both physical and intellectual skills which will enable
Higher Education at the World Conference on Higher Education held in Paris, 5-9
therefore be accessible to all throughout life and that measures are required to
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education.
technical/professional education.
The first institution for higher education in Nigeria was Yaba College of
Technology, established in 1934. This became the nucleus of the first University
Nigeria, Nsukka (1960), Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria, University of Lagos, and
the University of Ife (all in 1962), and much later, the University of Benin (1970).
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UNIVERSITIES.
Calabar, Port Harcourt, and Ilorin. More universities were to follow in subsequent
Federal, State, and Private. The post-1970 institutions are now collectively called
Technology, while there are three (Makurdi, Abeokuta, and Umudike) that focus
on Agriculture.
FEDERAL YEAR
S/N UNIVERSITIES VICE CHANCELLOR WEBSITE ADDRESS FOUNDED
Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa University,
1 Bauchi Prof. G. A. Babaji http://www.atbunet.org 1988
Ahmadu Bello Prof. Shehu U.
2 University, Zaria Abdullahi http://www.abu.edu.ng 1962
http://www.buk.edu.ng,
Bayero www.buk.edu.org,
3 University,Kano Prof. Attahiru M. Jega www.buk.edu.net 1975
Fed. Univ. of
Petroleum Prof. Babatunde
4 Resources, Effurun Alabi 2007
Federal University of Prof. Abdullahi Y.
5 Technology Yola. Ribadu http://www.futy.edu.ng 1988
Federal University of Prof. Adebisi M.
6 Technology, Akure Balogun http://www.futa.edu.ng 1981
7 Federal University of Prof. Muhammed S. http://www.futminna.edu.ng 1982
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YEAR
S/N STATE UNIVERSITIES VICE CHANCELLOR WEBSITE ADDRESS FOUNDED
1 Abia State University, Uturu. Prof. Mkpa O. Mkpa http://www.absuportal.com 1980
Prof. Abdurrahman
2 Adamawa State University Mubi Ghaji http://www.adamawastateuni.com 2002
3 Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba. Prof. Philip O. Abiodun www.ajasin.edu.ng 1999
4 Akwa Ibom State University of Prof. Sunday W. http://www.akutech.net, 2004
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YEAR
S/N STATE UNIVERSITIES VICE CHANCELLOR WEBSITE ADDRESS FOUNDED
Abti-American University, Dr. C. Michael Smith
1 Yola (Prsdt) http://www.abti-american.edu.ng 2003
2 Achievers University, Owo Prof. J.A Odebiyi http://www.achievers.edu.ng 2007
African University of
Science & Technology,
3 Abuja http://www.aust.edu.ng 2007
Ajayi Crowther University,
4 Ibadan Prof. Olajire Olaniran www.acu.edu.ng 2005
5 Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin Prof. 'Deremi Abubakre 2005
Babcock University,Ilishan-
6 Remo Prof. Kayode J. Makinde http://www.babcockuni.edu.ng 1999
Bells University of
7 Technology, Otta Prof. A. I. Adeyemi http://www.bellsuniversity.org 2005
Benson Idahosa
8 University,Benin City Prof. Gideon E. D. Omuta http://www.idahosauniversity.com 2002
Bingham University, New
9 Karu Prof. F. I. Anjorin (Ag.) www.binghamuniv.net 2005
10 Bowen University, Iwo Prof. T. Olagbemiro http://www.bowenuniversity-edu.org 2001
11 Caleb University, Lagos Prof. Timothy O. Tayo http://www.calebuniversity.edu.ng 2007
12 Caritas University, Enugu Prof. Romanus O. Unegbu 2005
CETEP City University,
13 Ibadan Prof. Akin Aju http://www.cetepuniversity.com 2005
14 Covenant University Ota Prof.Aize O. Obayan www.covenantuniversity.com 2002
15 Crawford University Igbesa Prof. M. I. Ige www.crawforduniversity.edu.ng 2005
16 Crescent University, Prof. B. A. Ola-Adams (Ag.) http://www.crescentuniversityng.com 2005
Fountain
17 Unveristy,Oshogbo Prof. H.O. B. Oloyede http://portal.fountainuniversity.org 2007
Igbinedion University
18 Okada Prof. A. U. Osaghae http://www.iuokada.edu.ng 1999
Joseph Ayo Babalola
19 University, Ikeji-Arakeji Prof. C. O. Oshun http://www.jabung.org 2006
20 Katsina University, Katsina Prof. Danjuma A. Maiwada 2005
Lead City University,
21 Ibadan Prof. J. B. Aladekomo http://www.lcu.edu.ng 2005
22 Madonna University, Okija Prof. L. C. Unukwube www.madonnauniversityportal.com 1999
23 Novena University, Ogume Prof. E. O. Adedeji 2005
24 Obong University Prof. Enefiok S. Udo www.obonguniversity.net 2007
Pan African University,
25 Lagos Prof. Albert Alos http://www.pau.edu.ng 2002
Redeemer's University,
26 Mowe Prof. Oyewale Tomori http://www.run.edu.ng 2005
Renaissance
27 University,Enugu Prof. Ogwo E. Ogwo www.rnu.edu.ng 2005
28 Salem University,Lokoja Prof. Paul Omaji www.salemuniversity.org 2007
Prof. Angulu
29 Tansian University,Umunya Onwuejeogwu http://www.tansian-edu.com 2007
30 University of Mkar, Mkar Prof. Nancy Agbe www.unimkar.edu.ng 2005
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long before the emergence of universities for high level technical manpower in a
in various parts of the country. The early 1950s saw the establishment of the
Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, which were later absorbed by
technology in Lagos, and in the three regions that existed at that time; Ibadan
more regions and States were created, new polytechnics (owned by state
institutions contributed to meeting social demands for higher education up till the
disenchantment among young people with the ‘cull de sac’ nature of polytechnic
education.
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Colleges of Education
The first advanced Teachers’ Colleges (for producing ‘highly qualified non-
graduate teachers’, mainly for secondary schools) were established in the wake
region), Ibadan (Western region), and Abraka (Mid West region). The creation of
more states in the Federation, and the increasing demand for teachers, due to
but there has been a rapid increase in private colleges of education in recent
waning. They are no longer anybody’s first choice. For this reason, the nation just
has to take a close look at their original ‘raison d’être’ and work out a re-
MONOTECHNICS:
stage offers a Bachelor’s degree after a minimum of four years and a maximum
of six years (e.g in medicine).The university second level stage offers a Master’s
degree following one year of post-Bachelor .s study. The university third level
stage offers a doctorate degree, two to three years after the Master’s
programme. To gain admission into the first level of university education, one has
Higher education in Nigeria can be further divided into the public or private, and
and state Government dominate the education system. In recognition of the need
Government.
parent ministries.
higher education in Nigeria. First, distance higher education programs are being
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established; second, good quality private universities are being encouraged and
allocates funds to federal universities and also prescribes the spending formula,
and is headed by appointed Vice Chancellor as CEO’s; the Academic Staff Union
the nation is still unable to meet the social demands for universities. For
example, all the universities in the country were able to admit a bare 10.75 % of
For the polytechnics, 24.8% of the 130,000 applicants were admitted in 1999-
2000 (the latest year for which figures are available). The Colleges of Education
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1997-1998*
1998–1999 186905 134463 32136 47170 31380 78550 24.44 14.68 9.76
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1999–2000 242530 176398 41892 47170 31380 78550 18.75 11.26 7.49
8
2000-2001 268671 198819 46749 31271 190006 50277 10.75 6.69 4.06
0
*Data could not be obtained for the academic year 1997 / 98
0
1997-1998 82158 68255 15041 18065 13664 31729 21.09 12.01 9.08
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1998-1999*
1999-2000 72100 56236 13025 21513 15492 37005 28.41 16.52 11.89
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2000-2001*
*Data could not be obtained for the academic year 1998 / 99 and 2000 / 2001
1999-2000
2000-2001 3999 4862 8861 2998 3674 6672 75.30 33.80 41.47
*Data could not be obtained for the academic year 1997 / 98 and 1999/2000
Quality issues
1. There have been in recent years a serious concern about the quality of
and for providing services such as electricity, leaving very little for the
conducted by the statutory regulatory agencies and the professional bodies. The
academic standards (MAS) that provide the benchmarks against which the
for the setting up of MAS and the assurance of the quality of all academic
nation, respectively.
ii) Assure employers and other members of the community that Nigerian
where they fail to meet the prescribed standards so that remedial action may be
accreditation.
these institutions) for a level of performance, integrity and quality which entitles
them to the confidence of the educational community, the public they serve and
In the Nigerian university system, in spite of the fact that university education
first accreditation exercise was conducted in 1990 following the setting and
Since then, three other accreditation exercises have been conducted with the
exercise.
Ranking of Institutions
including the following were used to assess the programmes: academic content,
programmes.
of each indicator. Academic content has a maximum of 23, staffing 32, physical
facilities 25; library 12, funding 5 and employers’ rating of graduates 3. The
aggregate scores, and for the purpose of comparing clusters of universities, the
tables below:
level.
hostels are being tackled by government on several fronts, notable among which
universities.
The National Virtual Library Project: The virtual (digital) library project aims to
and international library and information resources and for sharing locally
available resources with libraries all over the world using digital technology. The
current books and journals in university and other higher education libraries.
staff and to update and improve their skills and make them more effective in
preparation for the take-off of the National Higher Education Pedagogic Centre
(NHEPC), the commission established the Virtual Institute for Higher Education
agree to provide specific funds for the procurement of teaching and research
equipment through the creation of a teaching and research equipment grant sub-
expansion of higher education in Nigeria has not followed a strict master plan.
Whether more institutions are needed, in what forms, in what places, under what
conditions, etc are now issues that should become elements of a much-desired
unplanned increase in student numbers has been a major crisis area of higher
institutions. There is therefore the need for ‘academic planning’ (both at the
more intimately linked with the facilities (human, financial, physical, academic) of
various institutions. This would also be an instrument for planning the expansion
entire world is questioning the relevance of higher education curricula, and the
major issues have been the need to adapt what students learn, the way teaching
you know’ and not ‘what you know’. Nigerian high education should see this as its
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most important challenge; as its continued relevance would depend on the extent
and the speed with which it is able to meet prevailing societal aspirations.
the Nation. This involves turning those developmental imperatives into the object
and subject of teaching, research, and service within the institutions. It also
involves forging closer links between town and gown for a more socially
Gender inequality is a stark reality in higher education, as is the case with the
entire system. While the problem requires a ‘systemic attack’, higher education
development issue.
learner is the major reason for the existence of higher institutions. His/her special
needs should be central to any genuine development efforts within that sub
sector.
Today’s higher education learner is living under more stressful conditions than
her/his forebears. Therefore, students’ concerns (bringing them in, and not 221
merely legislating for them) have become an imperative for the smooth
Historical Factors
Every community in Nigeria had its traditional patterns of education that ensured
coming of Islam, parts of the country assimilated Islamic education into the
therefore was slow in penetrating into the areas of strong Islamic influence, while
areas with strong Christian influence readily embraced the new form of
Education. This historical incident has had the effect of polarizing the country in
Economic Factors
The fluctuations that the Nigerian economy has suffered over the years have also
largely affected the country’s educational development. During the years of the
oil boom (1970 – 1980), centralization was introduced into the country’s
education. The apparent wealth of the era (an annual GDP of 6.2 %), although
mostly (90%) accounted for by oil, impacted positively on the education system
with government virtually intervening in all aspects of education delivery and thus
visibly increasing inputs into the system With the end of the oil boom in the
poverty at the household level in both urban and rural areas increased. This in its
Education. Increased household poverty in turn, led to low and declining school
enrolment. Parents were unable to bear the direct and indirect costs of sending
their children and wards to school. The Structural Adjustment programme (SAP)
which emphasized macro economic stability with little thought for the social
dimensions of adjustment, introduced economic gains that made very little dent
on the population of persons below the absolute poverty line (of less than $1 a
day) the number of which increased from 12% to 14% between 1985 and 1992.
The pool of out-of-school children and youth increased at this time, and more
children were used to fetch needed extra cash for the family.
Sociological Factors
The factors referred to as sociological deal with the rising social demand for
education. The situation was the same across all levels of education. An
the demand for higher education. Although empirical sources do not exist to
establish this link, it does appear that graduates quickly enrolled for higher
The rising demand for higher education in turn led to the establishment of
satellite campuses that were the direct response from the universities to public
demand for higher education. Other modernizing trends such as the introduction
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Political Factors
government take over of schools between 1970 and 1985. Although differently
applied across states, the 1976 introduction of the Universal Primary Education
the regions. Technical and Teacher’s Colleges were equally taken over by
government in the 1970s while in 1975 the Federal Military Government decided
to take over all the universities in Nigeria. The subsequent ban on establishment
persons was lifted by the democratic dispensation and the 1979 Constitution of
1980 and 1999 mostly in the south. Between 1977 and 1999 however, private
universities were banned and un-banned twice (1977, 1984) (1979, 1999)
exposed the gaps created over the years between the north and the south. The
Ashby report diagnosis of the needs of Nigeria in higher education for instance
revealed that only 9% of primary school age children in the North were enrolled
in school as compared with over 80% of children of similar age in the south (east
and west). It was also revealed that only 4000 students were enrolled in
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secondary school in the north as against 40,000 in the south. This imbalance
Geographical Factors
languages (about 350), Nigeria is indeed a vast country. This reality introduces
essentially tied to the land think in terms of ethnic groupings and primordial
and locations of educational services. This trend of even spread or quota system
was applied to the establishment of the first set of Federal secondary schools,
education facilities.
International Influences
The case for improved access to education has benefited from international
attention and concerns over the years. The Jomtien 1990 Declaration and
Framework for Action (1990) and the Dakar EFA Declaration of April 2000 have
Other international conferences held during the 1990 decade: the Ouagadougou
higher education (1998), and technical/vocational education (1999) have all had
enabled Nigeria to network with other nations. The same can be said of Nigeria’s
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Although South Africa's tertiary enrollments are higher, Nigeria boasts more
institutions. With over 48 state and federal universities enrolling over 400,000
The system embraces much of the country's research capacity and produces
Nigerian Student Loan Board) is charged with providing merit scholarships and
student loans. Surveying this system and its institutional arrangements well over
a decade ago, the World Bank concluded that “more than any other country in
Sub-Saharan Africa, the structures exist in Nigeria that could provide for a
1988:3).
sciences) grew at the rapid rate of 12% annually during the 1990s and totaled
325,299 students by 2000 (NUC 2002b). Enrollment growth rates were the
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persons (Asia averages 650 and South Africa 2,500) and an average
staff/student ratio of 1:21 (sciences 1:22; engineering 1:25; law 1:37; education
occurred in the sciences and in engineering. As a result, the share of science and
consistent with national policy targets (NUC 2002). Much of this expansion
26.4% in science and engineering led the nation. Nigeria ranks 116 with 4.3%
Between 1997 and 1999, the numbers of academic staff declined by 12% even
enrollments, has left the federal university system with only 48% of its estimated
staffing needs filled. Staffing scarcity is most acute in engineering, science and
shortages exist in the disciplinary areas of Arts and Education (NUC 2002b).
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The cost of running the federal university system totaled $210 million in
1999. Financing for that system comes almost entirely from the federal
allocations per university student in the federal system fell from $610 to $360
between 1990 and 1999 – with obvious implications for educational quality.
have raised this amount close to a much healthier $1,000 per student annually
Federal university revenues are received mainly from three sources: the
student fees (9%) – even though no undergraduate tuition fees are charged. In
grabbing is the fact that, in real terms, capital budgets for federal universities
surged by 40% during the 1990s. This is the combined result of special campus
capital projects from the now-defunct Petroleum Trust Fund, and similar grants
from the recently operational Education Tax Fund. This trend of increasing
financial support for the system appears likely to remain during the coming years.
In August 2002 the NUC announced that the federal universities would receive
an additional 7.2 billion naira (USD 60 million) from government in 2003 and
during the last decade. Whereas in 1991 academic expenses accounted for 49%
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were 62% and 35% respectively. In the process, the portions devoted to teaching
support and to library development showed positive gains across the system.
institutions. In 1997/98 funds spent on direct teaching ranged from a low of 137
naira ($2) per student at Sokoto to a high of 1,683 naira ($21) at Maiduguri. The
system-wide weighted average was 331 naira ($4) per student (HARTNETT
2000). Overall, the NUC expenditure guidelines appear to have had a salutary
institutions.
education budget, the latter’s portion of the federal budget has diminished. Over
the past four decades, various Nigerian governments have increased university
education enrollments. Using data from 1962, Callaway and Musone (1965)
2.4% of GDP and 14.3% of government expenditure. The share of these funds
portion has remained relatively unchanged at 29%, but tertiary education’s share
regional and international norms. This divergence begs justification. For example,
UNESCO’s World Education Report 2000 indicates that for 19 other countries of
vigorous and its budgetary priority for the education sector is lower, but tertiary
of national resources.
the Nigerian Tertiary Education Systems, Access and enrolment trends, strategic
expansion policy interventions in recent times, key issues and challenges, factors
that have influenced education over the years, the present higher education
tertiary institution and operationalize them effectively. In order for this to occur,
capabilities and different needs, the system will have to become more flexible
pedagogy and conventional curricula, and does not even meet the government’s
own standards in these areas. In today’s world, the content and method of
requirements, and disconnected from the labor market. Likewise, its research
iv) Ensure direct basic funding to public institution for teaching through an
specific issues.
investments.
shifts have been slow to materialize within Nigerian universities. The transition
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to express our appreciation to Dr. D.E. Oriakhi for giving Group A
down the information contained in the write-up but does not guarantee that the
responsible for the accuracy of information that has been provided by other
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