Obafemi Awolowo University

The accommodation to authorize the University of Ife (popularly referred to as "Great Ife") by the cardinal Action Group affair of the Western Arena of Nigeria was in beef at the recommendations of the Ashby commission. The aboriginal Nigerian university was accustomed in 1948 at Ibadan, in the western arena as an alien academy of the university of London. However, the needs of Nigeria (then a British colony) far outstripped the abundance of the alone university. In accurate the University Academy at Ibadan had no adroitness of engineering or technology, no law school, no pharmacy academy or administering training abilities. The Ashby commission, set up by the British, was to analysis tertiary apprenticeship needs of the soon-to-be-independent nation of Nigeria.

In 1959, the Ashby agency recommended added (regional) universities in the arctic and eastern regions of Nigeria and accession federal university in the Lagos protectorate, but none in the added educationally avant-garde western arena which had a 'free and accepted primary education' program. The government of the western arena did not wish to await on the federal universities or those of added regions to accept its abundant accessory academy leavers. The beef of the foundation of the University at Ife was not alone in acknowledgment to the perceived politicization of academy apprenticeship opportunities in Nigeria and the western arena but was aswell advised to ample the gaps in the manpower needs.The Government of the Western Arena of Nigeria aboriginal appear in 1960 its ambition to authorize as anon as accessible a University in the Western Nigeria which would be of the accomplished standard, its action was to accessible its doors to acceptance from all locations of the Federation and of the world; in band with its acceptance in bookish excellence. The planning of the University was entrusted to two committees. One a University Planning Committee absolute bodies able to admonish on the planning of a new University, and who in aftereffect beneath attending the basic plan affiliated with the enactment of the University awaiting the ambience up of the conditional board of the University: the other, a University Parliamentary Committee, which would be advising to the Minister of Education, on 8 June 1961, the Law accouterment for the enactment of the Conditional board for the University was anesthetized by the Legislature of the Western Arena and on the 26th of the aforementioned ages Conditional Board of the University was formally inaugurated beneath the chairmanship of Chief Rotimi Williams.

On 11 June 1970, an edict accepted as the University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Edict 1970, was promulgated by the Government of the Western State to alter the Conditional Board Law of 18 June 1961. This Edict had back been adapted by the University Amendment Edict No 11 of 1975. This New Decree accomplished a active of the University by the Federal Aggressive Government.The website called for the University was Ile-Ife, a boondocks about 65 kilometers north-east of Ibadan Oyo State. Ife is acclaimed as the centre of an age-old acculturation and the home of the Museum which contains the acclaimed Ife heads. It was advised that acting barrio should be put on the website to accredit teaching to arise in October 1962, while the abiding barrio were after planned and erected. But if the Federal Government transferred the Ibadan Branch of the Nigeria Academy of Arts, Science and Technology, to the University, it was absitively that it would be accidental to put up acting barrio at Ife, and the University was acting amid on the website of the Ibadan Branch of the Nigerian College. Teaching began in October with an antecedent enrolment of 244 students. The teaching, administering and abstruse staff. Either transferred from the Nigerian Academy of Art, or were anew recruited from abroad, numbered about 80. In February 1966, Lt-Col Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, the Visitor of the University of Ife and the aboriginal Aggressive Governor of the Western Region, appointed a alpine man (Professor Hezekiah Oluwasanmi) as the new Vice-Chancellor, and a abbreviate man (Chief TT Solaru) as the pro-chancellor and gave them money and boot orders, to backpack to the abiding campus by October 1966. Fajuyi was dead in the aggressive disobedience of July 1966 at Ibadan, and did not attestant the movement he orchestrated. Fajuyi Hall, a residential anteroom for undergraduate macho acceptance was called to account his contributions in perpetuity.The University started with 5 commonsense Agriculture, Arts, Economics and Social Studies (now Social Sciences), Law and Sciences. Eight added commonsense accept back been added, namely the Faculties, of Apprenticeship accustomed on 1 October 1967), the Adroitness of Pharmacy (established on 1 October 1970), the Adroitness of Administering which replaces the above convention of Administering (with aftereffect from 1 October 1979) and the Adroitness of Environmental Design and Administering (established in April 1982). The Adroitness of Health Science (established on 1 October 1970) is now a college, fabricated up of three faculties, namely the Commonsense of Basic Medical Sciences.Ife started the aboriginal Adroitness of Pharmacy in West Africa, the aboriginal Department of Chemical Engineering and the aboriginal Electronics basic in accession to Electrical Engineering. Its medical academy started with an chip class and association acclimatization (which was after adopted by the World Health Organization) and a compulsatory baccalaureate (BSc honours) afore access to the analytic school, but this was after jettisoned.

On 10 July 1999 associates of the Black Axe Confraternity murdered the secretary-general of the students' union, George Iwilade, and several added apprentice activists in the Obafemi Awolowo University massacre. The Apprenticeship Minister Tunde Adeniran issued a account acknowledging ability of the adventure and that the admiral will amusement the case with "utmost concern

National Open University of Nigeria

The National Attainable University of Nigeria is a Federal Attainable and Ambit Acquirements (ODL) institution, the aboriginal of its affectionate in the West African sub-region. It is Nigeria's better tertiary academy in agreement of apprentice numbers and is bargain referred to as 'NOUN'.The National Attainable University was initially accustomed on 22 July 1983 as springboard for attainable and ambit acquirements in Nigeria. It was abeyant by the government on 25 April 1984. However, its resuscitation was amorphous on the 12th of April 2001 by the above President of Nigeria, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo. At yield off of the university, avant-garde apprentice acceptance stood at 32,400 In 2011, NOUN had about 57,759 students.The National Attainable University of Nigeria operates from its Administrative Headquarters in University Village, Plot 91, Cadastral Zone, Nnamdi Azikwe Express Way Jabi-Abuja, with 63 Abstraction Centres throughout the country. It offers over 50 programmes and 750 courses

NOUN does not accommodate lectures to acceptance in accustomed classrooms except some assertive abstraction centres, primarily due to constraints accepted to the University abandoned and the challenges usually faced by a developing tertiary institution. The abstraction centres provides facilitators to its undergraduates and food all-important advance abstracts to all acceptance afterwards the transaction of charge fees. All courses offered accept been accepted by the National Universities Commission (NUC).The Agent serves as the Secretary to Council and Senate bodies. The Registry Department’s primary albatross is to accommodate abutment casework in the General Administration of the University with accent on Council affairs, Senate matters, application of Staff, Students’ admission/welfare, Agents abundance and added accompanying activities. The agent is in being Mr Felix EdokaA assorted ambit of acceptance from all walks of activity are admiring to the National Attainable University of Nigeria just like added arresting Attainable Universities such as the Attainable University of United Kingdom (OU); for a lot of courses there are no acrimonious access requirements added than the adeptness to abstraction at an adapted akin such as the West African Examination, and added National Diplomas to authorize for a Direct access admission. Though a lot of postgraduate courses crave affirmation of antecedent abstraction and/or agnate activity experience. This axiological attainable admissions action makes undergraduate university abstraction attainable to allAnother acumen is the Act of Parliament which accustomed the University prohibiting any anatomy of abutment either aural agents or students. This has fabricated the NOUN to be artless by strikes such as the ASUU strikes (which lasted for eight months) in Nigeria which ultimately extends acceptance advance continuance in academy unnecessarily. NOUN acceptance accept consistently and will abide to be allowed to any anatomy of strike

University of Ibadan

The University of Ibadan (UI) is the oldest Nigerian university, and is amid 5 afar (8 kilometres) from the centre of the above city-limits of Ibadan in Western Nigeria.Besides the College of Medicine, there are now 11 added faculties: Arts, Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Amusing Sciences, Education, Veterinary Medicine, Technology, Law, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Dentistry. The university has residential and sports accessories for agents and acceptance on campus, as able-bodied as abstracted botanical and zoological gardens. In September 2016, it became the aboriginal Nigerian university to accomplish the top 1000 in Times Higher Education rankings. Prior to that, it had consistently fabricated the top African 10 in Webometrics Rankings. Its administration anticipate the UI acceptable on of the top 100 universities in the apple in the abutting approaching The origins of the university are in Yaba College, founded in 1932 in Yaba, Lagos,as the aboriginal tertiary educational convention in Nigeria. Yaba College was transferred to Ibadan, acceptable the University College of Ibadan, in 1948. The university was founded on its own website on 17 November 1948. In backward 1963, on the university playing-fields, with a anniversary apparent by talking drums, the Rt. Hon. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, aboriginal Prime Minister of absolute Nigeria, became the aboriginal Chancellor of its absolute university. The aboriginal Nigerian vice-chancellor of the university was Kenneth Dike, afterwards whom the University of Ibadan's library is named.The university is primarily residential with arresting halls of abode for macho and changeable students. There is accouterment for the adaptation of post-graduate students. There are internet cafés, Knowledge Hubs, cafeterias, laundry centres, mini-marts, columnist boards, common-rooms, gymnasia (in some halls), kitchenettes, etc. There is absorbing baptize and electricity supply. Electricity accumulation is aswell aggrandized by the inverter system. Football, table tennis and backyard tennis are sports about played and watched by students.

The Halls of Abode are semi-autonomous. Anniversary Anteroom of Abode has a Administration Committee, which is amenable for affairs of accepted action for the social, cultural and bookish activities of the Hall. The Administration Committee is accustomed admiral to align its own social, cultural and bookish activities advised to preserve, advance and adorn the traditions of the Anteroom and accomplish activity in the Anteroom about absorbing and worthwhile. The Administration Committee consists of the Anteroom Master/Mistress, the Anteroom Warden and Assistant Wardens, the Anteroom Supervisor and the Anteroom Executives, which consists of acceptance who are adopted every affair by the acceptance of anniversary anteroom to handle centralized apprentice matters, as able-bodied as act as an agent amid the Anteroom Administration and the generality of students.Accommodation in the Halls ambit from one to four bodies per room. The halls are:

Mellanby Anteroom (male, undergraduate). Location: to the North of the University Court. The aboriginal residential anteroom in the university, called afterwards Kenneth Mellanby, the aboriginal Principal of University College, Ibadan (1947–53). Mellanby has a artlessly air-conditioned and serene ambience. It was formally opened on 17 November 1952, and has a accommodation for able-bodied over 400 students.The anteroom is about the aboriginal in the school, possessing four blocks — A, B, C and D. The A block is primarily for freshmen while the D block houses acceptance in their final year. The anteroom is the a lot of centrally located, and appropriately sees a abundant circadian cartage of people

University of Benin (Nigeria)

The University of Benin was founded in 1970. It started as an Institute of Technology and was accorded the cachet of a full-fledged University by National Universities Commission (NUC) on 1 July 1971. In his Budget Speech in April 1972, the again Military Governor of Mid-Western State, Col. S. O. Ogbemudia(then aswell Visitor to the University) formally appear the change of the name of the Institute of Technology to the University of Benin. Optometry affairs was aswell founded (established) aural the Adroitness of Science in 1972 beneath the headship of Dr.Paul Ogbuehi (debpartment of Physics). By 1976, Optometry affairs in UNIBEN had on its adroitness able able with convenance licences from Canada, England, and United States of America. The affairs had a faculty-student arrangement of 2:1, abounding from College of Medicine and Medical Sciences becoming its accepted On 1 April 1975 the University at the appeal of the State Government, was taken over by the Federal Government and became a Federal University.

Today, the University has connected to abound from backbone to backbone with a amount of Faculties, Departments, Institutes and Units. Following NUC’s directives, the University experimented with the Collegiate System in 1991/92 and 1992/93.

However, in the ablaze of new developments, the University changed to the Adroitness System except for the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Basic Medical Sciences, and Institute of Child Health which changed to the Collegiate System in August, 1999, with a Provost as its authoritative head. The Commonsense as anon constituted are those of Agriculture, Arts, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Science, Pharmacy, Physical Science, Social Science, and the College of Medical Sciences (which has three Schools: Basic Medical Sciences; Dentistry and Medicine; and the Institute of Child Health).In January 2006, the Federal Government accustomed the yield off of the College of Petroleum and Gas Engineering of the University of Benin at Effurun, abreast Warri, in Delta State, with the antecedent citizenry of 100 acceptance in two departments; Petroleum Engineering and Gas Engineering

The University offers courses at assorted levels: Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Diploma and Certificate. Presently, the absolute apprentice acceptance stands at over 40,000 fabricated up of both full-time and part-time acceptance aggregate a allotment of the assorted Faculties.

In 1985, Grace Alele-Williams became Nigeria's aboriginal changeable Vice-Chancellor if she was appointed to arch the University of Benin. She served as its Vice-Chancellor until 1991.

The University is aswell acclaimed for arena breaking analysis plan with added universities about the apple and with both bounded and all-embracing bodies such as USAID, Ford Foundation, UNCF (United Negro College Fund), RMRDC (Raw Materials Analysis & Development Council of Nigeria) amidst others in the areas of Agriculture, Public Health and Engineering to name a few.Following NUC's directives, the university experimented with the Collegiate System in 1991/92 and 1992/93. However, in the ablaze of new developments, the university changed to the Adroitness System in January 1994. Presently, the university about operates the Adroitness System except for the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Basic Medical Sciences, and Institute of Child Health, which changed to the Collegiate System in August 1999, with a Provost as its authoritative arch The School of Medicine was accustomed in 1973, again Adroitness of Medicine to Medicine to run a 6-year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) full-time amount program. The aboriginal Dean of the School was Professor T. Belo-Osagie. He was Dean from 1973-1975. With the avenue ofProfessor T. Belo-Osagie, Professor K. Diete-Koki became the Dean of the School. Since then, the School has had assorted Deans and Heads of Departmentsin the endure 30years. The actual accomplished Dean of the School was Prof. Dr.(med.) E. Oviasu The present Dean of the School of Medicine is Professor M.Momoh.The School of Dentistry coordinates courses and curricular aural the College arch to the accolade of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree. The School of Dentistry(as it was accepted then) started in 1976 and the aboriginal accumulation of acceptance were accepted in the 1976/77 Session. It was accustomed as an basic allotment of the College of Medical Sciences in 1975 by alteration to the Edict establishing the University of Benin. In 2012 with abutment from the All-embracing Federation of Endodontic Associations(IFEA) and donations from University of Texas at Houston School of Dentistry and the Okwen family, Dr. Mbachan Collins Okwen BDS(Benin), DDS, MBA alien adorning endodontics and avant-garde diminutive endodontics at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital The School of Postgraduate Studies of the University of Benin was accustomed in October 1981. The Dean of the School of Postgraduate Studies, in affiliation with the Board of the School, contest all-embracing analysis and administration of postgraduate programs conducted in all colleges, commonsense and institutes of the University. The primary affair of the School of Postgraduate Studies is to advance a bright compassionate of its role, authorize and accumulate procedures, aggrandize opportunities for postgraduate training and research, and animate the addition of new programs as able-bodied as afterlight of old ones.

The aim of the School is to be articular with the accomplished standards and traditions of postgraduate training, scholarship and analysis that will advance to above advances and advance in assorted disciplines of learning. Given the superior of training offered, the School has produced high-level animal assets who accept adapted into academia, industry and government.

American University of Nigeria

American University of Nigeria (AUN) is a clandestine university in northeastern Nigeria that offers American appearance college apprenticeship programs at the undergraduate, alum and able levels. Founded in 2004, it is the alone American appearance university in Sub-Saharan Africa. AUN is accepted by the Nigerian National Universities Commissions Founded in 2004 by Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria's above carnality president, the American University of Nigeria opened its doors to its aboriginal acceptance in 2005. The university is amid in northeastern Nigeria in Yola, the accompaniment basic of Adamawa state.

The university was originally called the ABTI American University of Nigeria afore the name was simplified to American University of Nigeria. This puts it in acquiescence with practices of added American appearance universities alfresco of the United States, such as the American University of Beirut and the American University of Paris. AUN is the alone American appearance academy of college acquirements in sub-Saharan Africa (the alone added such university in Africa is the American University in Cairo in Egypt). AUN is a affiliate of the Association of American International Colleges and Universities.

The university's accepted president, preceded by Dr. David Huwiler and Dr. Michael Smith, is Dr. Margee Ensign. Dr. Ensign came to the column accepting served as administrator of the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific, area she was aswell the accessory provost

Ahmadu Bello University

Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a federal government analysis university amid in Zaria, Kaduna State.ABU was founded on October 4, 1962, as the University of Arctic Nigeria.

The university operates two campuses: Samaru (main) and Kongo in Zaria. There is aswell pre-degree Academy amid in Funtua few kilometres away from basic campus endemic by the university. The Samaru campus houses the authoritative offices, commonsense of; sciences, social-sciences, arts and languages, education, ecology design, engineering, medical sciences. agronomical sciences and analysis facilities. The Kongo campus hosts the commonsense of Law and Administration. The Adroitness of Administering consists of Accounting, Business Administration, Bounded Government and Development Studies and Accessible Administering Departments. Additionally, the university is amenable for a array of added institutions and programs at added locations.

The university is alleged afterwards the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the aboriginal arch of Arctic Nigeria.The university runs a avant-garde array of undergraduate and alum programs (and offers accessory degrees and abstruse and alleviative programs). The university has a ample medical affairs with its own A.B.U. Teaching Hospital, one of the better teaching hospitals in Nigeria and Africa.As Nigeria approached ability on October 1, 1960, it had alone a individual university: the University of Ibadan, accustomed in 1948. The important Ashby Commission report (submitted a ages afore independence) recommended abacus new universities in anniversary of Nigeria's then-three regions, as able-bodied as the capital, Lagos. Even afore the Commission report, however, the bounded governments had amorphous planning universities. In May, 1960, the Arctic Region had upgraded the Academy of Arabic Studies in Kano to become the Ahmadu Bello Academy for Arabic and Islamic Studies. The academy was alleged afterwards the region's ascendant political leader, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello.The Ashby Commission address recommendations gave a new catalyst and direction, and it was ultimately absitively to actualize a University of Arctic Nigeria at Zaria (rather than Kano). The university would yield over the accessories of the Nigerian Academy of Arts, Science and Technology at Samaru just alfresco Zaria, and would absorb the Ahmadu Bello Academy in Kano, the Agronomical Analysis Institute at Samaru, the Institute of Administering at Zaria, and the Veterinary Analysis Institute at Vom on the Jos Plateau. The law establishing the new university was anesthetized by the Arctic Region assembly in 1961. It was absitively to name the university afterwards Ahmadu Bello, and the Kano academy again took the name of Abdullahi Bayero, a accomplished Emir of Kano.

At the aperture on October 4, 1962, acknowledgment in allotment to arresting absolute institutions, ABU claimed four commonsense absolute 15 departments. However, acceptance in all programs numbered alone 426. The challenges faced were enormous. Over 60 years of British colonial rule, apprenticeship in the Arctic Region had lagged far abaft that of the two southern regions. Few acceptance from the Arctic had abilities for university entrance, and beneath still northerners had abilities for teaching appointments. Of the aboriginal apprentice body, alone 147 were from the North. ABU's aboriginal carnality adjudicator (principal ambassador and leader) was British, as were a lot of of the abstruse appointments. Alone two Nigerians — Dr. Iya Abubakar (Mathematics) and Adamu Baikie (Education) — were a part of the ancient annular of adroitness appointments. Accessories on the basic Samaru campus were inadequate, and the administering and affiliation of the physically afar above-mentioned institutions was difficult.

Nevertheless, beneath the carnality chancellorship of Dr. Norman S. Alexander, bookish and authoritative staffing was developed, new departments and programs were created, above architectonics affairs were undertaken, and apprentice enrollments grew rapidly. By the end of Alexander's administering (1965–66), about 1,000 acceptance were enrolled. The New Zealand-born Alexander, from 1966, became a affectionate of "freelance vice-chancellor", alms his ability to advice in the ambience up of added Commonwealth universities in the West Indies, Fiji and Africa In 1966, Dr. Alexander was succeeded as ABU carnality adjudicator by Dr. Ishaya Shuaibu Audu, a pediatrician and accessory assistant at the University of Lagos. Audu had been built-in in Wusasa, abreast Zaria, in 1928. A built-in Hausa, he was ABU's aboriginal Nigerian carnality adjudicator and a northerner. However, his associates in the Hausa Christian association of Wusasa apparently had some afterwards appulse on his tenure.

ABU was actively afflicted by the coups and the anti-Igbo riots of 1966. But, beneath Dr. Audu's leadership, ABU was to abound and advance at an even faster pace. Advance in apprentice enrollments had been captivated earnest to advance and development of A-level training at the accessory academy level. So alpha in 1968–69 ABU bankrupt chargeless from the British three-year ancestry and accustomed the Academy of Basic Studies to accommodate avant-garde accessory pre-degree training on campus. Acceptance who entered through the Academy of Basic Studies about boarded on a four-year affairs against a bachelor's degree.

Opposed initially by some, the academy accepted a abounding success and enrollments broadcast even added rapidly. By its tenth year ABU absolute enrollments including non- and pre-degree programs were put at over 7,000 of which added than bisected were in amount programs. In its aboriginal ten years, the University of Ibadan produced 615 graduates. At ABU the agnate amount afterwards 10 years was 2,333 aboriginal degrees, forth with several avant-garde degrees.

From the beginning, ABU was arresting for the across of its ambition. In its institutions, but mainly on or abutting by the basic campus by Samaru, ABU was creating a ambit of programs that alone the actual a lot of absolute of U.S. accompaniment universities could accept matched. Ranging far above the accepted fields of the arts, languages, amusing sciences and sciences, it included engineering, anesthetic (the Zaria hospital was an ABU teaching hospital), pharmacy, architecture, and a avant-garde array of agronomical departments including veterinary medicine. What was alleged the Kongo campus just alfresco the old city-limits in Zaria accomplished accessible administering and agitated out a affairs of in-service training for bounded government throughout the north. The Adroitness of Law was based at the Kongo campus. The Adroitness of Apprenticeship not alone accomplished apprenticeship courses but aswell managed the Avant-garde Teacher's Colleges in the arctic states. At the Kano campus now alleged Abdullahi Bayero College ABU accomplished courses in Hausa, Arabic and Islamic studies.

ABU was additionally arresting a part of Nigeria's universities for the across and civic appearance of its apprentice recruitment. ABU had been founded to be the University of Arctic Nigeria. Yet, added than any added of Nigeria's universities, ABU has served acceptance from every accompaniment of the Nigerian federation.Professorial staffing to serve the beginning apprentice enrollments and advance offerings was a abeyant limitation during this period. In the aboriginal 1970s almost abounding allotment fabricated it accessible to forward some chief bookish agents to across institutions to complete avant-garde degrees. A baby but accretion amount of Nigerians with Ph.D.s or added avant-garde degrees were abiding from away (but ABU had to attempt with the added Nigerian universities to recruit them). In the meantime, arrangement of departer teaching agents was capital and it broadcast abundantly and adapted in nationalities. Carnality adjudicator Audu endeavored to antithesis the goals of Nigerianization (and "northernization") of ABU's advisers with the charge to advancement all programs at an all-embracing akin of bookish quality.By 1975, this antithesis was strained. The teaching adroitness remained added than bisected departer overall; at chief levels still added so. The development of Nigerian staffing (and abnormally of northern-origin teaching staff) was perceived as too slow. In 1975, ABU angry against a abundant added accent on centralized agents development as it adopted the Alum Assistantship program. Beneath this program, the best graduates from the departments’ undergraduate programs are recruited to accompany the administration as staff-in-training and undertake avant-garde training as they accretion on-the-job experience. Within a few years, a cogent admeasurement of ABU chief agents were articles of the centralized training programs. From 1975, the admeasurement of departer teaching agents beneath rapidly

University of Lagos

In adjustment to accomplish accelerated industrialization and development afterwards independence, Nigeria bare to advance in the training of a able workforce. The basal charge to actualize added universities to ability this ambition was facilitated by the enactment of the University of Lagos in 1962. The Eric Ashby Commission on Post Academy Certificate and Higher Apprenticeship was accustomed by the Nigerian Government in May 1959. The Ashby Commission’s report, blue-blooded Investment in Education, recommended the enactment of a new university in Lagos, the again Federal Capital, to accommodate apprenticeship for accepting in Economics, Commerce, Business Administration, and Higher Management Studies. In 1961, UNESCO Advisory Commission was assigned the abundant planning of the new university by the Federal Government. However, admitting the Ashby Commission had envisaged a non-residential academy which would be cited in the business commune of Central Lagos, the UNESCO Commission free for a acceptable university, “a complete all encompassing institution” with residential adaptation on a ample campus. Following the accepting of the UNESCO Commission’s report, the University of Lagos was accustomed on 22 October 1962 on the ascendancy of the University of Lagos Act of 1962. The act provided for a conditional board for the university, a assembly to administer over bookish affairs, and a abstracted board for the College of Medicine. This was rather abnormal for, by ascendancy of the act, the University consisted of two abstracted institutions—the capital university and an free medical school. The hotlink amid the two institutions was aerial at best, consisting of alternate representation on both councils and associates in the University Assembly by advisers in the medical school. The adjudicator is the august arch of the university who, in the name of the university, confers all degrees. The Vice-Chancellor is amenable for the circadian active of the university and answerable to the council. The board is amenable for the alternative of all vice-chancellors, agent vice-chancellors and deans of faculty. The albatross for acclimation all teaching, analysis and bookish functions of the university avalanche on the senate, as set out in the University of Lagos Act and in the Statute of the University of Lagos. Additionally, the interests of the university's accepting are represented by the Students' Representative Board (SRC), which aswell selects assembly to the assembly and board via the Dean of Apprentice Affairs.The university has remained one of the a lot of aggressive in the country in agreement of admissions. Notwithstanding, with about 57,000 accepting as of 2013, the University of Lagos has one of the better apprentice populations of any university in the country.The University of Lagos is a part of the aboriginal bearing of universities in Nigeria and aswell one of the twenty-five federal universities which are overseen and accepted by the National Universities Commission. The university has aswell congenital a bequest of bookish excellence[citation needed] and is now acclaimed about as "the University of Aboriginal Choice and the Nation's Pride." The University of Lagos is a Centre for bookish research. The university's analysis action was one of the above belief acclimated by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in adjudging the university as the best university in Nigeria at the Nigerian University System Annual Merit Award (NUSAMA) in 2008.The capital campus is amid at Akoka, Yaba, while the Medical Campus of the College of Medicine is amid a few kilometers from the capital campus at Idi-Araba, Surulere, all on the Lagos mainland. The university has abounding added residential accessories and casework for both agents and students. The University of Lagos has fourteen bookish units absolute a ample ambit of able commonsense and schools. A lot of commonsense are amid on the capital campus except the Commonsense of Pharmacy, Clinical Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences and Dental Sciences, which are amid aural the College of Medicine in Idi Araba. The College of Medicine is aswell the website of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). The university aswell has added centers and institutes in accession to the assorted departments in its faculties. The bookish bodies of the University abide of the full-time undergraduate programs, the Distance Learning Institute (DLI) and the Academy of Postgraduate studies (full-time and part-time programs) whose affecting advance has admiring the appellation "the Lagoon Lighthouse". The University of Lagos offers abounding Bookish Programs. Areas of apprenticeship and analysis are abbreviated in the table below:

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

The University of Nigeria, frequently referred to as UNN, is a federal university amid in Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria. Founded by Nnamdi Azikiwe in 1955 and formally opened on 7 October 1960, the University of Nigeria has three campuses – Nsukka, Enugu and Ituku-Ozalla – amid in Enugu 

The University of Nigeria was the aboriginal full-fledged aboriginal and aboriginal free university in Nigeria, modelled aloft the American educational system. It is the aboriginal land-grant university in Africa and one of the 5 aristocratic universities in the country. The university has 15 Faculties and 102 bookish departments. The University offers 82 undergraduate programs and 211 postgraduate programmes.

The university acclaimed its 50th ceremony on October 2010.A law to authorize a University in the Eastern Region of Nigeria was anesthetized on 18 May 1955. While that date marks the bookish alpha of the history of the University of Nigeria, the achievement of this legislation by several Nigerian leaders, and aggressive decidedly by the again Premier of the Eastern Region, Dr. Nnamdi 

One of the aboriginal accomplish taken by the Eastern Nigeria Government appear the accomplishing of its charge was an allurement to both the United States of America and the United Kingdom to forward admiral to advice in the planning of concrete and educational aspects of the proposed university.

Under the collective advocacy of the Inter-University Board for Higher Education and Overseas and the All-embracing Co-operation Administration (now the United States Agency for All-embracing Development J.W. Cook, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, Dr John A. Hannah, President of Michigan State University and Dr Glen L. Taggart, Dean of All-embracing Programs at the aforementioned university, came to Nigeria in 1958. The aggregation surveyed the website at Nsukka, and abundantly advised a abundant array of factors pertinent to the enactment of a new university.

The after-effects of their efforts were independent in a white cardboard issued by the Eastern Nigeria Government on 30 November 1958. They had recommended "that the development of the University of Nigeria based aloft the abstraction of account to problems and needs of Nigeria, is a adorable activity and one that should accept abutment from any antecedent which could advice to accomplish it a complete endeavor".

They added recommended that a conditional board be accustomed to "draw aloft the abstruse and advising assets attainable throughout the apple for advice in planning the institution".

The conditional council, authorised by the Eastern Nigeria Legislature, was appointed by the Governor in Board in April 1959, and accustomed all-important banking and authoritative admiral to body a complete university. It reflected the spirit of all-embracing co-operation which has accustomed bearing to the institution. It consisted of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chairman, Dr. T. Olawale Elias and Dr. Okechukwu Ikejiani from the Federation of Nigeria, J.S. Fulton from the United Kingdom, Dr. Margueritue Cartwright and Dr. Eldon Lee Johnson from the United States of America.

The University was formally opened on 7 October 1960, as the acme to the Nigerian ability celebrations in the Eastern Region. Her Royal Highness, Princess Alexandra of Kent, apery Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Nigerian ability celebrations, performed the aperture ceremonies and laid the foundation rock of one of the University's aboriginal buildings.

Classes began on 17 October 1960 with an enrolment of 220 acceptance and 13 associates of the bookish staff. The aperture assemblage addresses were delivered by the Chairman of the Conditional Council, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the aboriginal President of the Federation of Nigeria, and by Dr John A. Hannah, President of Michigan State University, USA.

The university was absolutely autonomous, with the ability to admission its own degrees. Technically speaking, therefore, it became the aboriginal fully-fledged university in Nigeria, back Ibadan was still at that time a university academy acceding London degrees. It aswell became the aboriginal university accustomed by a Nigerian Regional Government. The University Academy Ibadan, the oldest university institution, cut its umbilical bond with London in October 1962, acceptable the University of Ibadan. In July 1965, it angry out the aboriginal graduates captivation Ibadan (rather than London) degrees, by which time Nsukka had produced two crops of graduates and taken all the publicity for axis out the aboriginal graduates of an free 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 capital campus of the University is amid on 871 hectares of arresting savannah in the boondocks of Nsukka, about eighty kilometres arctic of Enugu, and enjoys a actual affable and advantageous climate. Additionally 209 hectares of abundant acreage are attainable for an beginning agronomical acreage and 207 hectares for agents apartment development. There is approved alley carriage amid Nsukka and Enugu, and Nsukka is aswell absolutely calmly attainable from all locations of Nigeria. There are avant-garde arcade accessories and a ample bazaar in Nsukka town. The Nsukka campus houses the Faculties of Agriculture, Arts, Biological Sciences, Education, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Concrete Sciences, Social Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine.