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THE acting executive secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Mr Chris Maiyaki has revealed that despite the presence of 149 private universities in Nigeria, the institutions could only cater for approximately 10 percent of the Nigerian university population.
He lamented that on an annual basis, over two million prospective individuals seek university admissions with the existing institutions while they are only able to accommodate between 500,000 and 700,000 candidates.
Maiyaki made this known when he received a delegation from the International Institute of On-line Education (IIOE), China, an affiliate institute linked with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), led by Professor Jiansheng Liang.
The IIOE is a global collaborative initiative to strengthen the teacher’s competency for higher education institutes in developing countries and improves access to quality higher education resource.
He told the delegation that their visit to the NUC coincided with the period of significant expansion of the commission’s activities aimed at further increasing access to university education.
The acting executive secretary said Nigeria currently has a total of 274 universities, comprising 62 federal, 63 states and 149 private universities.
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