{"id":174220,"date":"2025-08-14T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-govt-approves-nine-new-private-universities"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:36:20","slug":"nigerian-govt-approves-nine-new-private-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-approves-nine-new-private-universities","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Govt approves nine new private universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government has approved the establishment of nine new private universities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced this on Wednesday while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The newly approved institutions are Tazkiyah University, Kaduna State; Leadership University, Abuja; Unique Open University, Lagos State; and American Open University, Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>Others are: Jimoh Babalola University, Kwara State; Bridget University, Mbaise, Imo State; Greenland University, Jigawa State; JEFAP University, Niger State; Azione Verde University, Imo State;<\/p>\n<p>Alausa said the Tinubu administration inherited 551 pending applications for the establishment of tertiary institutions, which were subjected to stricter approval guidelines. He noted that the list was reduced to 79 active applications, out of which nine were approved on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to inefficiencies within the NUC, approvals were delayed. We have since introduced reforms to streamline these processes, and today\u2019s approvals are a result of clearing this backlog,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The government had also announced a halt to the establishment of more federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government has approved the establishment of nine new private universities across the country. Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced this on Wednesday while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu in Abuja. The newly approved institutions are Tazkiyah University, Kaduna State; Leadership University, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[701,254],"class_list":["post-174220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-fg","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Govt approves nine new private universities - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government has approved the establishment of nine new private universities across the country. 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