NUC Has Not Ranked Nigerian Universities — Prof. Rasheed

The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, MFR, FNAL, has clarified that the Commission has not done any ranking exercise or ranked any university in Nigeria in the past 14 years. Professor Rasheed  said that the purported ranking of Nigerian universities making the rounds in the social media, some of which had been attributed to the Commission were not only false, but should be disregarded. He reassured that the commission being the sole regulatory agency of university education in the country, would remain steadfast in the task of ensuring qualitative and orderly development of university education. He maintained that it was only by so doing, that the universities could be globally relevant and competitive and advised that Universities must strive to be truly universal entities wherein all the attributes and international characteristics including good reputation and academic credibility could be found.