Kobojunkie:

^^^ WOW . . . .all I can say is WOW . . . .


** Half-baked graduate issues we currently have in the country has little to nothing to do with school capacity. As it is, most all of our universities(government owned) are operating at less than half capacity -- have been for decades.

PhysicsMHD:

No, you should take a quick glance at the states the new universities are located in and reach a reasonable conclusion. Claiming that this was really only about upping capacity is not really tenable.

PhysicsMHD:

You should write more clearly.
'many other already existing and established schools, many of which are working BELOW capacity( 1000 -10000 in many cases)"
means exactly what I interpreted it to mean.
And how do you know your alma mater really had a capacity of 5000?

manny4life:

This just don't make sense

reindeer:

Well it was just for the galleries, we'll see where those 'univeristies' are in 10years.

kcjazz:

My issue is with funding, I feel most schools, like states are too dependent on the FG and it limits creativity and ways to manage revenue.

ekt_bear:

So you'd suggest raising the money from the students, I guess? That is fine, but means that only those who can afford to pay (or who can borrow money, I guess) will be educated.

Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has announced the ancient town of Ikole-Ekiti, headquarters of Ikole Local Government Area of the state, as the site of the new federal university allocated to the South-West geopolitical zone.

Fayemi, who made the declaration on Monday, while hosting the Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, said the decision to site the university in Ikole-Ekiti was informed by the need to give the people of the Northern part of the state an opportunity of enjoying dividends of democracy.

While on an inspection visit to the site, alongside the minister, the people of the town praised Fayemi for not toeing the path of former governors in the country who influenced the location of similar projects to their hometowns.

The new university will make use of the site of the Agricultural Development Project (ADP) in Ikole town, which was said to have satisfied the choice of balance in the location of tertiary institutions in the state.

According to the minister, the choice of the location of the university was purely that of the number one citizen of the state, which he said Governor Fayemi rightly exercised in the announcement of Ikole-Ekiti.

Fayemi disclosed that the university would focus on Agricultural Engineering, Biotechnology and Mining, which he said he believed would be of benefit to the people of Ekiti being an agrarian state.

Government appoints vice chancellors for new federal universities

The federal government yesterday announced the
appointment of vice chancellors and registrars for the new nine newly
approved federal universities which will open in September this year.
The former vice chancellor of the University of Lagos, Oye Ibidapo-Obe
who is now the vice chancellor of Federal University, Ndufu-Alike,
Ebonyi state. Others include Abdulmumini Rafindadi for Federal
University, Lokoja, Kogi state; Ekanem Ikpi Braide for Federal
University, Lafia, Nasarawa state; Mohammed Kabir Farouk for Federal
University, Kashere, Gombe state; and Geoffrey Okogbaa for Federal
University, Wukari, Taraba state. The rest are James Ayatse for Federal
University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina state; Jibrila Dahiru Amin for Federal
University, Dutse, Jigawa state; Chinedu Nebo for Federal University,
Oye Ekiti, Ekiti state; and Bolaji Aluko for Federal University,
Otuoke, Bayelsa state.

While announcing the appointments at a press briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, Minister of Education

Ruqqayatu Rufai explained that the decision of the
federal government to establish the universities was informed by[b] the
desire to provide the access to university education to a larger number
of qualified candidates who are annually stranded due to lack of
carrying capacity by the existing universities.[/b]

The appointments, according to the minister, take
effect immediately even as she directed the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) to facilitate students’ intake into the nine
universities by September this year.

She noted that the creation of the new universities
was also informed by the principle of equity in the distribution of

federal universities to cover all the states of the federation saying
“there are at present 12 states without federal universities”.

reindeer:

If there was ever an award for a useless Govt, i think GEJ is on the way to winning the awards.
Why cant he just give a little more money to existing universities, they will probably employ a thousand more per session.
Well it was just for the galleries, we'll see where those 'univeristies' are in 10years.
Dumb govt, hailed by like-minded people.

Oba234:

wow@500. Whats the point of building the school? waste of money. My highschool in The US had atleast 2,000 students and there were at least 3,000 students enrolled as freshmen in my college.