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.