As part of its efforts towards the revitalisation of the NUS, the NUC, organised a one-day sensitisation workshop for VCs and DICTs of selected universities on the proposed French Development Agency (AFD) Support for the ICT Component of the Blueprint Project.
As part of efforts to accelerate the adoption of the TNE policy in the
Higher Nigerian Education System, a high-powered UK-Nigeria Steering Committee on
TNE was inaugurated by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof.
Ibrahim Gambari.
The NUC rolled out its drums to celebrate its 60 years of existence as the sole regulatory agency of
the Universities and other degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria, with the unveiling of a new
CCMAS for universities in
Nigeria.
A two-man delegation from Poland, led by the Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Her Excellency, Joanna Tarawska and the Alumni President Polish Institute, Dr. Nghargbu K’tso, visited the Executive Secretary, NUC
The ES, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, inaugurated two committees namely-Committee on the Review of Submission on the Procedures, Criteria and Records of Professorial Promotion by some Non-Degree Awarding Institutions in Nigeria.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has taken over and renamed the newly established King David Nweze Umahi University of Medical sciences Uburu, Ebonyi State.