HEROIC FACTS ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA YOU MAY NOT KNOW BEFORE......some of the points are verifiable

After reading this article you should be able to compare it with your school in Nigeria and be the judge on "how far better" your own school is if not for media hype and geographical advantage.......Obviously, there are two Universities in Nigeria, The University "OF" Nigeria and other Universities "IN" Nigeria.

Read and improve your knowledge.

~It was Former called University of Biafra (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970)

~It is the first land-grant university in Africa

~Nickname: Lions and Lionesses (unlike others that add "suffix" on their names like Akokites,Zikites,futoites,Esutites lolz)

~It's Motto: To Restore the Dignity of Man

~It has the largest Library in Africa, 35,000 capacity Nnamdi Azikiwe digital and analogue library.

~The pioneer of General studies courses

~The only University in Nigeria that has Business Administrations as a Faculty

~Academic staff strength of 2,519, and Students 76,000

~It has the Highest number of Professors in Nigeria.

~It has produced at least one Vice Chancellor in all the Federal Universities in Nigeria except some of the newly established varsity by GEJ

~it has produced the highest number of best graduating student in Nigeria Law school among the Nigeria Universities


~The university has 15 Faculties and 102 academic departments, Offers 82 undergraduate programs and 211 postgraduate programmes.....with a Land area of ...2071 (Hectares total)



~The University of Nigeria commonly referred to as UNN, is a federal university Founded in 1955 in the Eastern Nigeria.
It was the first full-fledged indigenous and first autonomous university in Nigeria,
modeled upon the American educational system.

~The University was formally opened on 7 October 1960, as the climax to the Nigerian independence celebrations in the
Eastern Region. Her Royal Highness, Princess Alexandra of Kent, representing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the
Nigerian independence celebrations, performed the opening ceremonies and laid the foundation stone of one of the University's early buildings notably known today as Princess Alexandra Auditorium (PAA)

~The university was fully autonomous, with the power to grant its own degrees. Technically speaking, therefore, it became the first fully-fledged university in Nigeria, since Ibadan was still at that time a university college granting London degrees. It also became the first university established by a Nigerian Regional Government. The University College Ibadan, the oldest university institution, cut its umbilical cord with London in October 1962, becoming the University of Ibadan. In July 1965, it turned out the first graduates holding Ibadan (rather than London) degrees, by which time Nsukka had produced two crops of graduates and taken all the publicity for turning out the first
graduates of an autonomous Nigerian university.

~The University has four campuses – Nsukka (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN),
Enugu (University of Nigeria Enugu campus, UNEC),
Ituku-Ozalla (University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH) and
Aba (University of Nigeria Aba campus,
UNAC).
The Aba campus (UNAC) hosts the Institute of Nigerian Languages.


~The current Chancellor is Alhaji Shehu Idris While the Vice-Chancellor Professor Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba


~The first open heart surgical operation in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa was undertaken in 1974 at the University of
Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu.

~The Department of Electronic Engineering was named a Center of Excellence in Electronics by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1982.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki University_of_Nigeria,_Nsukka

Website unn.edu.ng

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chriskosherbal:
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nerilove:
Wow! Nice. I'm a proud Lion. Econs Dept 2007 set

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