The National Universities Commission has suspended the operational licences of seven private universities for allegedly not conforming with set targets on school facilities and academic programmes as proposed by the NUC.
The suspended universities are Lead City, Caritas, Joseph Ayo Babalola, Tansian, Madonna, Achievers and Obong.
Mallam Ibrahim Yakassai, The Director of Press and Public Relations of NUC said in a telephone the temporary revocation of the licenses of the affected schools was imperative in order to continually work on the current standard of Nigerian Universities.
A top NUC official who had pleaded anonymity had affirmed that the decision of the NUC became unavoidably important considering that most of the private Universities have failed to lived up to the guidelines stipulated by the NUC in the running of Universities in Nigeria.
“The operators of the universities affected know their offences because so many times, we have informed them about their failings but they did not take necessary steps to address their shortcomings. Anyway, It’s just a suspension and it will be lifted as soon as they do the correct things,” the source said.
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