Tinubu Approves Phased Take-off Of 6 New Varsities  

Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday following a closed-door meeting with President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said: “there are very many, probably about a dozen of them, if not more than a dozen or 14, that’s the number and you know tertiary institutions are highly capital intensive, they need a lot of money, especially at that take-off stage, for infrastructure, staff recruitment and all other needs.“So, by the time you want to start about 12, 14 institutions at once is a very heavy burden on the finances of government, so that’s why.

“We will need trained teachers, which Colleges of Education will provide and the same thing with Agric. So that’s why the government has not stepped down that approval. Instead, the President, in his wisdom, said we stagger their implementation on the grounds of funds. Some of the Universities established during the said period are David Nweze Umahi Federal University of Medical Sciences, Uburu; Federal University of Transport Daura; Shehu Shagari University of Education, Sokoto; Admiralty University Ibusa, Delta State.

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