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SixSeven:
You are contradicting yourself. I like that you mentioned that it is business. Is education business

Is Cambridge private?

Is this the Education Ministry's policy? Is this FG's policy?

Please answer the questions above.

Cambridge International Education works with private schools all over the world, what are you on about? Do you think it's free? A foreign school (Coventry University) must liase with and get approval from the Ministry of Education before establishing anything in Nigeria. That's basic commonsense.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Which Nigerians are you referring to? Is it the 0.00001% group you are referring to?
You guys just make baseless and reckless statement without proper verification. Do you know how much a borehole costs?

Only such statements can come out from an animalistic animositous Republic. Someone up there said unless a reset like the type that happened in Russia and France decades ago, Nigerians and their leaders will never get sense. Dont worry at this rate it will happen sooner than expected.

Nigerians believe in solving their problems. Even your president solved the problem of epileptic electricity supply by switching to solar in Aso Rock. Nigerians are selfish. Once they and their families are okay, they don't mind if the larger society is suffering.

Nigerians will rather take care of their health with private health care than let everyone suffer so government fixes public health care with their taxes.

Nigerians will rather send their kids to private schools than let everyone face public school issues so government improves education.

Nigerians will rather drill boreholes than depend on public water so government fixes water supply.

Nigerians will rather hire private security than rely on police so government improves national security.

Nigerians will rather pay for private waste disposal than tolerate poor sanitation so government fixes waste management.

Nigerians will rather use multiple internet providers than endure bad service so government improves telecom infrastructure.

Nigerians will rather travel abroad for medical treatment than endure local hospitals so government fixes public healthcare.

Nigerians will rather relocate abroad (“japa”) than stay and push for systemic change so government improves living conditions.

Nigerians will rather build houses in gated estates than live in poorly planned areas so government fixes urban planning.

Nigerians will rather pay private tutors than rely on school teaching so government improves education quality.

Nigerians will rather use personal cars and ride-hailing than depend on public transport so government fixes mass transit.

Nigerians will rather dig their own drainage or fix flooding around their homes than wait so government solves flooding issues.

Nigerians will rather rely on personal connections (“man know man”) than demand transparent systems so government fixes public institutions.

Nigerians will rather pay out-of-pocket in cash than rely on insurance systems so government strengthens social safety nets.

Nigerians will rather install private CCTV and alarms than depend on public surveillance so government improves security infrastructure.

Nigerians will rather create informal businesses than wait for an enabling environment so government fixes ease of doing business.

Nigerians will rather homeschool or use lesson centers than depend fully on schools so government improves learning standards.

Nigerians will rather use unofficial shortcuts and middlemen than endure slow public processes so government fixes bureaucracy.


A Ghanaian once said that the difference between Nigeria and Ghana is that if everyone in Ghana did not have light, no one person will go ahead and solve the problem on their own. They will wait as a collective. We are so used to fixing things ourselves. It is a good thing but it is also selfish. Ubuntu can never succeed if we want to be above others instead of enjoying what everyone can enjoy. President does not want to suffer with us, he is a reflection of the average Nigerian.

Image123:
Cambridge International Education works with private schools all over the world, what are you on about? Do you think it's free? A foreign school (Coventry University) must liase with and get approval from the Ministry of Education before establishing anything in Nigeria. That's basic commonsense.

So a government that should fix public education system is so concerned about private schools? And you think that makes sense? Is it your tax payers money that Tinubu used to go and bring Coventry to Nigeria? I know you are more intelligent than this. Let me put a full stop to this, not an ellipsis.

LabStores:
Why?
What is wrong with ASUU?
Is the campus not still going to be under NUC?

Nothing is wrong with ASUU. The UK deny Nigerians admissions, and it is hurting their universities. Now they want to use backdoor to fund their deficits. A low thinking minister does not see the game plan. Rather, he is jubilating for his low IQ.

phemray:
I didn't understand ASUU fear and the point. I see it as a major success because it means Instead of Nigerians travelling abroad to school u can be admitted to the such schools campus in Nigeria and have same certificate as those in UK. UK academics standards is well above ASUU imagination.

They don't want me in their country but they want my fees money. So I'm happy to let them have my money.

That's what you sound like.

What's ASUU scared of? The university is for us the reach in the society and not for the pour. It's time for us to separate the reach from the pour.

delpee:
The problem is that we have free market enterprise here. It's a private institution not funded by government in any way. All that they require is approval if they meet the prescribed standards by NUC and the Fed. Ministry of Education. I don't see how ASUU can resist.

Even the government is not consistent with their own policies.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUUZ4_kuI_M

Dalohad:
Open British university does not even employ Nigerian lecturers, why should they be allowed to profit from the Nigerian academic market.

Any foreign Online/Open university that wants a campus in Nigeria, must firstly show NUC that at least 50% of their employed Faculty are Nigerians, and they must pay the Nigerian lecturers in dollars or pounds.

That is the only way to gain respect of the sleazy British and Europeans who advertise their useless online and open Universities to Nigerian students but will never employ Nigerian lecturers and Faculty or even give Nigerian students visas..

Another useless one is BYU-pathway, I can name tons of them, who simply want to take money from Nigeria students and never employ Nigerian Faculty or give visas.

NUC should take this matter very seriously. That University will not be allowed here. We have enough already.

We know they are in deficit and they are looking for Nigerian funds to measure up. They can look elsewhere. Maybe Namibia.

Seems like Nigerian students made a significant contribution to the financial state of the university. However...the university is not doing well financially and the visa reforms that now make it difficult to enroll Nigerian students have made matters worse. Coventry cannot survive without these students. If the students cannot come go to Coventry then Coventry has to go to them. It's all about the money. No doubt...the fees will be exorbitant.... higher than Covenant ...but the degrees will be accepted internationally. But is this what we need in these times? How will this help us? It's established ...one is enrolled ..graduates ...then what? In these times we need to be earning FX .... not giving it out with no returns. I'm with ASUU on this. If the FG had signed with a Technical institution..... where Nigerians can learn and apply 21st century skills.

I totally support ASUU.

The British got 129,000 Visa applications from Nigeria last year and they approved only 20,000. Most applicants applied based on education.

Their universities are having a reduction in African students enrollment which means they are running into debts......now what ASUU is saying is this, of you want our students money to fund your universities then give them visas to study and pay in your country.

They are trying to be clever by half, relocating their campuses to Nigeria, collecting our money and taking it abroad while the students remain stuck in Nigeria, that is criminal of them and this government is approving it.

If we are not good enough to study in your country, then your country should not be good enough to take our money via that same study.
Who stands to gain the most??
It's not the students.
It's not Nigerian economy.
It is the Brits that will take money out of our economy and leave their graduates stranded in Nigeria with a fancy degree from a big name school.......the whole thing is a racket just as they do with Visa fees. Take their money and reject the applicants.

You get the point Sir.

It's all about the money for them, I guarantee if their universities were still doing well financially they would never in a million years allow them to build in Nigeria.

Why are people so blind that they can't see this scam.

CorrectionFLuid:
They don't want me in their country but they want my fees money. So I'm happy to let them have my money.

That's what you sound like.

BlackViper:
https://thenationonlineng.net/ASUU-rejects-fgs-plan-for-uk-varsity-campus-vows-resistance/

Tinubu will do what he has to do. Assu can not stop him.

That British university is a moderately crap University. Go and read Brit forums, they're usually insulting Coventry (I saw a thread where Brits were telling an American who wanted to apply there to save his money because internationally it wasn't a strong degree). It's an average university at best

They're coming here because they were a sort of diploma mill for immigrants. Only a few of their courses are good.

If we really want to benefit, we would be talking to Cambridge, Imperial College and Oxford, but those ones don't need our money.

Some British secondary schools are moving here for our money: Charterhouse, Rugby, Wellington. Nigerians can't get visa, forex is too pricey plus England is deeply unsafe for Black kids so the wealthy flooded the top Lagos and Abuja schools with their scions. And the British schools felt the financial loss so they're moving branches here

ASUU is useless. ASUU should fix their system to compete with others, hold the government ramsom, if they come and they have a branch in my state, I'll send my kids there.

SixSeven:
So a government that should fix public education system is so concerned about private schools? And you think that makes sense? Is it your tax payers money that Tinubu used to go and bring Coventry to Nigeria? I know you are more intelligent than this. Let me put a full stop to this, not an ellipsis.

How much is government paying for it?

ASUU VS Federal Government and Conventry University: The Facts and the TRUTH:
1.Since the Tinubu Administration came into being,almost 3- yrs ago, ASUU has been on a low key exercises and in fact have been Commended because unlike before ,where 4- yrs Course in our Universities turned 6-7 yrs before now and the Present Govt promises that ASUU strikes will be a thing of the past.
2.ASUU has suddenly raised an issue that they still have an Outstanding Money to Collect ,based on a New Agreement 🤝 signed with the Federal government,hence they are attaching that to the New Conventry University Campus to be built at Epe,in Lagos.
3.From the above,you can see that the New ASUU body is mixing some things up:
i.What Indeed is the role of ASUU in our University?
ii.Is it by holding Many Universities govt -down that their Students Could Not graduate - at exact date/ years as stated in their JAMB Letter of Admissions then or just to foment trouble in the Campus?
iii.why suddenly are they joining the Conventry University Campus Establishment in Nigeria, to its Fighting the govt now?
iv.Is ASUU the One to issue University Certificates?
v. Is ASUU to build the University under Discussions - With their ( ASUU Own)
Money 💰? Indeed,we understand when Money is involved in our Associations !
(vi) Has ASUU visited the Campus and find it to be at Variance with the Globally Accepted Standards of Education?
vii) So far, ASUU has veered off their Areas of Jurisdictions and seems confused and looking for ways to hold down Educational -investments Opportunities that is rarely extended to Countries,as Nigeria is Opening 🪟 up on different Sectors Of Development.
viii) ASUU should Not be a clog in the wheel of Progress but rather should Support this Noble Cause that Coventry University is making available now.
•Finally, ASUU should desist in making NIGERIANS to think their Mission in our Campuses is to forment trouble,as if that is the Only Way to know they are existing and ready to hold the Universities and Govt- in jugular,as if there are no other approaches and alternatives to Strike,to real Negotiations and they should allowed the Past to be Past, for how many times do we see or hear the Universities in USA, UK or Europe 🌍 going on Strikes?
ASUU should allow Nigerian Universities and Students to breath!

ASUU is right on this one even though I don’t like their incessant strikes because some of their members are always involved in election rigging in this country, but on this one they got it spot on. How can the FG be so dumb in signing such agreement. Universities that people finish in the uk and don’t get jobs afterwards! Why are they looking for Africans to patronise their universities. They should sell their universities to their citizens. How many of their citizens attend these universities? Are you people not tired of colonisation?

Fear of competition. ASUU wants to continue their nonsense without interference.......divide Nigeria so that each resultant country will do as they please...Nigeria is too big for one black man to rule.

ACRI:
We need a revolution!


China,Russia, French e.t.c all broke free from under development through revolution.

Revolution is the complete overhaul and reset that we need as a nation.

If there's no resolution through revolution, there's going to be a violent balkanization.

Fragmenting Nigeria will result to smaller, hostile, and ineffectual regions, that will do us no good.

This country is way too divided for that.

BlackViper:
https://thenationonlineng.net/ASUU-rejects-fgs-plan-for-uk-varsity-campus-vows-resistance/

Very good coming from ASUU.

Nwaikpe:
Little do you know that many of those "British and American Secondary Schools" have nothing to do with Britain and America.
Private entities just take up the name to sound sophisticated.

This is a case of a university in a country that has denied your people a visa, saying that they still want your money but don't want you in thier country.
Guy, just read!
Reading is not that difficult!

There is nothing wrong with this. You are only talking about them wanting our money but do you know how much Nigerians spend in the UK alone on education. A hell of a lot. If the purpose is only us going there for education then what difference does it make? So what if they deny some people visa? It isn't of universal application and besides a lot of us end up committing crimes over there. Their immigration policies are distinct from their educational policies.

Image123:
How much is government paying for it?

Good question.

This is NAN report.

FG secures Coventry university deal to deliver UK degrees in Nigeria
ON: MARCH 18, 2026 IN: EDUCATION
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By Funmilayo Adeyemi

The Federal Government has secured a partnership with Coventry University under a Transnational Education (TNE) arrangement to establish a campus in Nigeria for the delivery of affordable, globally recognised degrees.

The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Folasade Boriowo, Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education.

Alausa, who is currently in the United Kingdom accompanying President Bola Tinubu, said he had engaged with UK university leadership, key investors, and development partners to drive the initiative.

He said the proposed campus would be located in Alaro City, Lagos State, and would offer Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM), Business, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training.

According to him, the degrees would be equivalent to those awarded in the United Kingdom, with admissions expected to commence between the third and fourth quarters of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.

The minister said the initiative was designed to expand access to world-class education at reduced cost, while strengthening skills development and improving graduate employability.

He added that the programme would enable Nigerian students to study locally while receiving international-standard education.

Alausa noted that the partnership, supported by the UK’s Department for Business and Trade, underscored the government’s commitment to positioning Nigeria as a hub for knowledge, skills, and innovation. (NAN) www.nannews.ng

Edited by Tosin Kolade

Copyright © 2026 News Agency of Nigeria.


This is the TNE our Minister went to sign that UNILAG had done something like it with University of Birmingham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Pedt3L8MA

SixSeven:
Good question.

This is NAN report.

FG secures Coventry university deal to deliver UK degrees in Nigeria
ON: MARCH 18, 2026 IN: EDUCATION
follow and like on:FacebookX (Twitter)YouTubeInstagramTelegram
By Funmilayo Adeyemi

The Federal Government has secured a partnership with Coventry University under a Transnational Education (TNE) arrangement to establish a campus in Nigeria for the delivery of affordable, globally recognised degrees.

The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Folasade Boriowo, Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education.

Alausa, who is currently in the United Kingdom accompanying President Bola Tinubu, said he had engaged with UK university leadership, key investors, and development partners to drive the initiative.

He said the proposed campus would be located in Alaro City, Lagos State, and would offer Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM), Business, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training.

According to him, the degrees would be equivalent to those awarded in the United Kingdom, with admissions expected to commence between the third and fourth quarters of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.

The minister said the initiative was designed to expand access to world-class education at reduced cost, while strengthening skills development and improving graduate employability.

He added that the programme would enable Nigerian students to study locally while receiving international-standard education.

Alausa noted that the partnership, supported by the UK’s Department for Business and Trade, underscored the government’s commitment to positioning Nigeria as a hub for knowledge, skills, and innovation. (NAN) www.nannews.ng

Edited by Tosin Kolade

Copyright © 2026 News Agency of Nigeria.


This is the TNE our Minister went to sign that UNILAG had done something like it with University of Birmingham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Pedt3L8MA

In other words, there's zilch proof of government paying anything. Thank you.

On this ASUU is right.
Implication of the establishment is that Nigerians would not have any reason to be given uk visa under the guise of studying abroad after all Coventry is on your soil so why should we grant you visa?
Currently, these institutions are worse hit with decline of intl students leading to budget cuts, layoff etc. So they want to eat their cake and have it- get money from int. Student while denying them access.
But ASUU, go collect rice n compromise.

FreeStuffsNG:
Ha! ASUU can actually do it if FG will have a stake in that university.
But if it is wholly private then it will be insulated from ASUU.

It’s all empty talk. The Federal Government will go ahead with it, and nothing will happen—ASUU won’t take any real action.

Image123:
In other words, there's zilch proof of government paying anything. Thank you.

You first say:

Cambridge International Education works with private schools all over the world, what are you on about? Do you think it's free? A foreign school (Coventry University) must liase with and get approval from the Ministry of Education before establishing anything in Nigeria. That's basic commonsense.

Then you say how much is the government paying. But you talk about approval and I am showing you what a TNE is and whether this is the business of a government using public funds for a partnership with a private school, then you are telling us that there is no proof of government involvement for a TNE agreement whose details have not been released but a UNILAG has done recently too. C'mon!

A half truth is the most cowardly of lies. Mark Twain

Government has no business with this venture. And it is hypocritical that the same government that put a moratorium on establishing universities has now changed its tone.

SixSeven:
You first say:

Cambridge International Education works with private schools all over the world, what are you on about? Do you think it's free? A foreign school (Coventry University) must liase with and get approval from the Ministry of Education before establishing anything in Nigeria. That's basic commonsense.

Then you say how much is the government paying. But you talk about approval and I am showing you what a TNE is and whether this is the business of a government using public funds for a partnership with a private school, then you are telling us that there is no proof of government involvement for a TNE agreement whose details have not been released but a UNILAG has done recently too. C'mon!

A half truth is the most cowardly of lies. Mark Twain

Government has no business with this venture. And it is hypocritical that the same government that put a moratorium on establishing universities has now changed its tone.

i never said there is no proof of government involvement. Talk about half truths in full demonstration.

Useless ASUU.

ASUU is right.
What is UK's aim for wanting to establish Coventry University in nigeria?

LabStores:
Why?

What is wrong with ASUU?

Is the campus not still going to be under NUC regulations?

Image123:
It's not a partnership but an approval. Coventry wants to establish a university campus, like we have many British and American secondary schools in Nigeria. It doesn't stop other or new exchange programmes. They are mutually exclusive agreements.

Why does Coventry want to establish a university campus in Nigeria?

lionshare:
Which point exactly? It’s a private business and ideally should be a deregulated market but here we are with someone being spoon-fed by FG threatening a business that’ll actually create real value.

What real value would UK's establishment of Coventry university in nigeria create for the common man?

zagorakis:
Why does Coventry want to establish a university campus in Nigeria?

Errrrrr, to make money? Or what do you think, for the love of God?