{"id":63952,"date":"2025-04-08T10:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63952"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:06:48","slug":"afe-babalola-warns-fg-against-mass-licensing-of-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/08\/afe-babalola-warns-fg-against-mass-licensing-of-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Afe Babalola Warns FG Against Mass Licensing of Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Legal luminary and ABUAD founder, Afe Babalola (SAN), has warned the Federal Government to stop the unchecked approval of new universities, saying it endangers Nigeria\u2019s educational future.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a research workshop in Ado-Ekiti, he said many newly licensed institutions lack infrastructure and standards, prioritizing quantity over quality.<\/p>\n<p>Babalola blamed a weakened National Universities Commission (NUC) for the rise in substandard universities, stressing, \u201cPoor education is worse than illiteracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Babalola disclosed that Nigeria currently has more than 270 licensed universities, with nearly 200 new proposals pending before the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Babalola called for a halt to what he described as an anything-goes syndrome in university licensing and urged the government to prioritize academic excellence and institutional capacity in approving new schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Legal luminary and ABUAD founder, Afe Babalola (SAN), has warned the Federal Government to stop the unchecked approval of new universities, saying it endangers Nigeria\u2019s educational future. Speaking at a research workshop in Ado-Ekiti, he said many newly licensed institutions lack infrastructure and standards, prioritizing quantity over quality. Babalola blamed a weakened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63954,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63952\/revisions\/63954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}