Nigeria’s former Honourable Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, has reaffirmed her lifelong commitment to improving education across Africa, despite retiring from public service after more than three decades of impact in teaching, policy making, and administration.
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund has also assembled a team of experts to commence the selection of 10 beneficiary universities for the establishment of mechanised commercial farms and livestock operations in its 2025 intervention.
The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abdullahi Yusufu Ribadu, FCVSN, has called for more innovation in the Nigerian universities as a way of being relevant in the 21st century, stressing that universities must evolve from being just degree-awarding institutions to being drivers of innovation, skills and national progress
On Friday, July 11, 2025, Ebonyi State celebrated the official presentation of a Certificate of Recognition for the establishment of the University of Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering by the NUC.