By Ben Agande
Abuja – The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday gave approval for the establishment of nine private universities in the country.
The new private universities are to be sited in Ogun, Lagos, Osun, Akwa-Ibom, Kwara and Delta states.
Addressing State House correspondents after Wednesday’s meeting which was presided over by Namadi Sambo, the Minister of Education,Ibrahim Shekarau admitted that the Federal Government was incapable of regulating the exorbitant fees charged by private universities.
Mallam Shekarau who was accompanied by the Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka; Minister of State, Finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda; Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe listed the new universities as Augustine University, Ilara, Lagos State; Chrisland University, Owode, Ogun State; Christopher University, Mowe, Ogun State; Hallmark University, Ijebu Itele, Ogun State; Kings University, Ode-Omu, Osun State; Michael and Cecilia Ibru University, Orode, Delta State; Mountain Top University, Ogun State, Ritman University, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State and Summit University, Offa, Kwara State.
Mallam Shekarau said that the government was helpless in checking the high fee charged by private universities because ,according to him, ” like private hospitals or nursery schools, owners of private universities are free to charge fees that will give returns to their investments”.
He said what the government ensures is that standards are not compromised in terms of facilities and staffing among others.
“As far as government is concerned, all Federal Government universities are tuition-free. Whatever the universities are charging are so minimal for some day-to-day activities: games fees, union fees and some other fees.
“Of recent, I had cause to ask the NUC to regulate kind of minimum because there is a university that is charging as low as N20,000, N15,000. Some charge N30,000 to N80,000 or so which is a composition of a number of different kinds of fees. But basically, no university owned by government is charging tuition fee.
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