Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has charged Nigerian universities to double their efforts in research and innovation to enable them to proffer solutions to the myriad of challenges bedevilling the country.

Nigerian universities are now 274, The Guardian has gathered.  

To make the country’s education system globally competitive and attractive to international students, there is an urgent need for the government to adopt policies that would encourage ‘home-based’ scholars and draw foreign learners and researchers.

As I had noted earlier to my friends and colleagues across platforms, the wind of convocation time blew me to the Sunshine state, Ondo on Thursday December 7, 2023 where I delivered the 12th Convocation Lecture of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Olugbenga E. Ige, led me into temptation of writing 11, 544-word lecture. The lecture titled, “Internationalisation of Universities for Global Relevance”, was quite remarkable for various contexts and contents. In some historical excursions, a correlation between federalism and internationalisation was established to the extent that both concepts aren’t new, after all. We lost federalism we are begging for now specifically in 1966 when the soldiers of fortune struck down democracy and federalism through Decree No.34 and institutionalised the federal republic of the Nigerian arm

Federal Government has commenced implementation of an automatic 40 per cent deduction of internally generated revenue (IGR) of federal universities and other partially funded public institutions across the country. The Guardian learnt this was in line with a finance circular with reference number FMFBNP/OTHERS/IGR/CRF/12/2021, dated December 20, 2021. The circular limits yearly budgetary expenditure from…

With the news media raising genuine concern on the crisis looming in Nigerian public universities, caused of course, by the massive exit of several lecturers seeking greener pastures in foreign land, some urgent actions should be embarked upon by the federal government, to reverse the drift to mass ignorance and low quality education delivery. As…

Nigeria’s higher education system stands at a critical juncture. In the Times Higher Education Ranking of 2023, only two Nigerian universities made it to the top 500 worldwide— a ratio that falls far short of the country’s potential.