UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: NUC Addresses Reports

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This, as the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rashid, took to the public the need to disregard any university ranking purportedly published by the commission.

In a report from DailyPost, Abubakar, said this an address on Saturday at the 3rd Combined Convocation of the Bingham University, Karu in Nasarawa State, describing the claims as “simply fake.” Saying that the commission had not carried out ranking of Nigerian universities in the past 14 years.

In his words, “The purported ranking published in the conventional and social media is false, fake and not from the NUC. It is meant to deceive members of the public and should be disregarded,’’ 

However, the secretary said the commission will soon embark on ranking of universities, commending the proprietor of the institution, ECWA Church, for landslide achievement in sustaining