About Us

Yaba College of Technology is one of the leading academic institutions, recognized as a centre of excellence with 9 world-class Schools and a number of acclaimed departments. Our alumni and academic staff shape the world that they inhabit. They include numerous prize winners, some of the nations renowned Politicians, Doctors, Computer Scientist, Banker etc.

Yaba College of Technology programmes have been accessible to students through full time and part-time courses since 1947. Today, there are over 16,400 students studying for one programme or the other.

The College maintains robust and effective quality assurance mechanisms for all its programmes. Part-time students get specially designed programmes of study, which is at par with the full-time courses

Yaba college of Technology being the first higher institution in Nigeria, third in Africa and twenty-seventh in the world is indeed a place for rich academic culture and heritage. This is why we pride ourself as "Yaba the GREAT"


http://portal.yabatech.edu.ng/Yabatech%20-%20About%20us.html

When was Yaba Tech founded?

Brief History of the College

Welcome to Yaba College of Technology. "Yaba the Great" as the College is fondly known today, started out as a technical institute which succeeded the Yaba Higher College in October, 1947 and stands to be the Premier Higher Institution in the country.

The College was first called "Yaba College of Technology" through Decree 23 in 1969 and again, Decree 33 of 1979 re-named it "Federal Polytechnic Yaba". However, as a result of persistent pressure mounted on Government, in 1980, Government agreed to spare the original name of the College and it reverted to its old name of "Yaba College of Technology"

The main objectives of the College, according to the decree establishing it, is to provide full time and part-time courses of instruction and training in Technology, Commerce and Management, and in such other field of Applied learning relevant to the need of the development of Nigeria in the areas of industrial and Agricultural production and distribution and for research in the development and adaptation of techniques as the Council of the College may from time to time determine.

In Pursuit of this objectives, the College has continued to develop structurally, humanly and materially and Today is made up of nine(9) academic units called Schools, headed by Deans and Thirty-four(34) Departments headed by Heads of Departments.

http://portal.yabatech.edu.ng/About%20Yabatech%20central%20web%20pages.htm

List of oldest universities in continuous operation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation#Africa

Africa

Sierra Leone: Fourah Bay College - University of Sierra Leone, 1827
South Africa:
University of Cape Town, 1829 (University status: 2 April 1918).[25]
Stellenbosch University, 1866 (University status: 2 April 1918).
Sudan: University of Khartoum, 1902[26] (renamed from Gordon Memorial College in 1956).
Egypt: Cairo University, 1908, public university; The American University in Cairo established in 1919 as a private university
Algeria: University of Algiers, 1909
Uganda: Makerere University, 1922
Kenya: Egerton University, 1939 (as Egerton Farm School)
Ghana: University of Ghana, 1948[27]
Nigeria: University of Ibadan, 1948[28]
Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe, 1952
Angola: Agostinho Neto University (as Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola), 1962
Mozambique: Eduardo Mondlane University (as Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique), 1962
Tunisia: University of Ez-Zitouna 737[29]

Founded in 1947, yet they have the brazen effrontery to claim third in Africa and 27th in the world? Yoruba people go kill person with fake claims ooooo!!!

lol, it seems Nchara is back in war mode today.

@OP

What's bad about making claims?? Europeans also lied about the first university in the world being Bologna University...

Every student of history knows that the first university in the world was in Timbuktu, Mali... And the second one was in Salamanca, Spain...

Get a life!!

shymmex: @OP

What's bad about making claims?? Europeans also lied about the first university in the world being Bologna University...

Every student of history knows that the first university in the world was in Timbuktu, Mali... And the second one was in Salamanca, Spain...

Get a life!!

What was bad about Emeagwali making claims? You can make claims but don't make claims that are thoroughly false and will ridicule you.

shymmex: @OP

What's bad about making claims?? Europeans also lied about the first university in the world being Bologna University...

Every student of history knows that the first university in the world was in Timbuktu, Mali... And the second one was in Salamanca, Spain...

Get a life!!

The first university was probably in North Africa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ez-Zitouna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Al-Karaouine

PhysicsQED:

The first university was probably in North Africa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ez-Zitouna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Al-Karaouine

Can you condemn the blatantly false claim and stop sitting on the fence?

PhysicsQED:

The first university was probably in North Africa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ez-Zitouna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Al-Karaouine

Nah, the university in Timbuktu was older than them.

Adejoro74:
What was bad about Emeagwali making claims? You can make claims but don't make claims that are thoroughly false and will ridicule you.

And what is the correlation between Emeagwali's claims and this thread?

Why can't you create another thread for that?

shymmex:

And what is the correlation between Emeagwali's claims and this thread?

Why can't you create another thread for that?

Because they are both false. However one is personal, the other is organizational.

Adejoro74:
Can you condemn the blatantly false claim and stop sitting on the fence?

I don't take it serious enough. They probably don't even believe it themselves.

shymmex:

Nah, the university in Timbuktu was older than them.

I don't think so.

What is this poison that you ate? My friend told me your name means you ate a POISON (ORO)?? From your lunacy, I see you are in the pangs and throes of death! Ewu efulefu, onyeberibe! Disgrace to all well meaning Nigerians!

http://www.oluwale.com/

PhysicsMHD:

I don't take it serious enough. They probably don't even believe it themselves.

hahahhaha why is it falsehood every where in this our naija.

one day we go wake up and found out that Nigeria amalgamation never took place it was lies all the while.
anyway our Yoruba folks don't even blv themselves in the lying life style.