President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of five new universities specialized in technology and health.
Naija News reports that this is to close the huge gap in the doctor-patient ratio as well as in medical research and production of pharmaceutical products.
This was disclosed on Monday by the Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education, Arch Sonny Echono.
He stated that Buhari also approved a take-off grant of N4 billion each for the Universities of Technology and N5 billion each for the Universities of Health Science from the funding resources of…