The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has imposed a seven-year freeze on the creation of new public tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, disclosed this to State House correspondents after Wednesday’s FEC meeting chaired by President Bola Tinubu.
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He explained that the measure is aimed at preventing the deterioration of existing schools, which could lead to a drop in educational quality and high graduate unemployment.
Despite the moratorium, the government has approved nine new private universities out of 79 pending applications. Alausa said the Tinubu administration inherited 551 establishment requests but reduced them to 79 after introducing stricter requirements for new institutions.
“We doing this to further halt decays in tertiary institutions which may in future affect the quality of education and consequently cause unemployment of graduates from some of these institutions,” the minister said.
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