Yemi Obafemi
National Universities Commission (NUC) NUC, has approved 41 undergraduate programmes in Niger State University of Education with effect from 2023/2024 academic session.
Prof. Mohammed Kuta-Yahaya, Chairman of the committee Niger State University of Education, disclosed this during a news conference on on Thursday in Minna.
Kuta-Yahaya said, the NUC confirmed the availability of structures and facilities to run the programmes in the four faculties – Faculty of Science Education, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Education.
He said, “A resource verification visit was carried out by panels of experts to the proposed academic programme in the Niger State University of Education, Minna with a view to assessing the human and material resources available for its establishment.
“I am directed to inform the Vice Chancellor that the Acting Executive Secretary, NUC, has considered and approved the establishment of the full-time mode of 41 undergraduate programmes, to be run in the main campus of the university with effect from 2023/2024 academic session”.
During the presentation of the 2024 budget to the State Assembly on Dec. 19, Gov. Umaru Bago, had earmarked N20 billion for the take off of the state’s University of Education.
