The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Monday approved provisional licenses for 11 new private universities to expand Nigeria’s higher education sector.
Minister of Education, Mr Tunji Alausa, said this at the end of the FEC meeting chaired by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the State House in Abuja.
The newly approved are the New City University, Ayetoro, Ogun State; University of Fortune, Igbotako, Ondo State; Eranova University, Mabushi, FCT; and Minaret University, Ikirun, Osun state.
Others are Abubakar Toyin University, Oke-Agba, Kwara State; Southern Atlantic University, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State; Lens University, Ilemona, Kwara State; and Monarch University, Iyesi-Ota, Ogun State.
Others include Tonnie Iredia University of Communication, Benin City, Edo State; Isaac Balami University of Aeronautics and Management, Lagos; and Kevin Eze University, Mgbowo, Enugu State.
The minister said the 11 new universities have been awarded provisional licenses after fulfilling the National Universities Commission’s 13-step process.
He assured that the FEC would continue to approve universities that have invested heavily and are nearing completion of the approval process.
The minister said a moratorium has been placed on the issuance of licenses to new private universities
