NUC Approves 3rd State University For Kogi

The Kogi State Government has obtained a license of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to establish the third state-owned university to be known as Kogi State University, Kabba.

The state governor, Yahaya Bello, in a mission statement read at the NUC in Abuja, said that the State House of Assembly last Thursday passed a bill to establish a third state-owned University to be sited in Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of the state.

The state had earlier inaugurated an implementation committee, chaired by Emeritus Professor of English Language, Olu Obafemi.