***As Okun people lobby for University in Kaaba
By Henry Umoru
ABUJA- THE National Universities Commission, NUC, disclosed Monday that within the last five years, about six million University admission seekers in Nigeria were denied admission.
The came as Senator Dino Melaye and others from Kabba in Okun land said that Okun land deserve a university.
Speaking Monday in Abuja while having in audience, intelligentsias from Kogi West lobbying for upgrade of Federal College of Agriculture, Kabba to a full fledge university, the Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Abubakar Rasheed explained that the number of university seekers got to the level due to acute shortage of space and capacities by the existing 161 Universities in the country .
Giving a breakdown, Professor Rasheed said that between 2013 and 2017, out of 7.8m university admission seekers that sat for Unified…
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