Nigerian universities and their products are already among the best and do not need ranking to prove themselves, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okogie, has declared.
He lamented that though people have given Nigerian universities a bad name to kill them, products of the institutions always distinguish themselves abroad whenever they are given opportunities.
Okogie spoke at the weekend during the inaugural meeting of the reconstituted Board of Trustees and the Governing Council of Bingham University, Abuja.
He said: “They say that Nigerian universities are not ranked high amongst the first 2,000 ranking profile in the world and I ask, there are about 6,600 universities in the United States and only 3,000 of them are accredited.
“So even if you work that hard, with all the facilities, it doesn’t mean that you will be amongst the 2,000. So my concern has always been how relevant is your university and the programme they run to the environment and the system it supervises.”
Okogie emphasised that graduates who cannot read or write were never students but individuals who simply buy results from and end up making it look like the Nigerian university system is poor.
According to him: “Universities should bring development to the environment which they live. If you look at the developed countries, universities are the towns themselves, but here towns depend on the university for economic growth.
“In developed worlds, facilities in most universities are donated by people for universities to grow but here people want the universities to sustain them.”
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