Bishop David Oyedepo already owns two
high performing universities but is already
building two more. This is good news,
especially with the acute shortage of
tertiary academic institutions in Nigeria.
Nigeria is set to witness the birth of two more
private universities, thanks to Bishop David
Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church
Worldwide.
Oyedepo had during his 60th birthday celebration
announced that two of the universities he plans to
add to his chain are already being constructed in
undisclosed locations.
Bishop Oyedepo already owns Covenant
University, Ota and Landmark University which
are doing quite well if the International Colleges
and Universities (ICU)'s 2014 rankings of
Nigerian Universities » are anything to go by.
Accrding to the list released by ICU on
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 » , Landmark
University, Omu-Aran, Kwara, and Covenant
University are the 5th and 6th best in Nigeria,
ahead of Premier Universities like Ahmadu Belllo
University, University of Benin.
Covenant University is also one of the 58
Nigerian universities approved » by the
National Universities Commission (NUC) to run
postgraduate programmes.
Thank You Bishop
In a country where as many as 105,000
students applied for admission » into the
University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) which has 9,000
spots available while another 60,000 applied to
the University of Benin in the same academic
session, it is obvious that there is an acute scarcity
of tertiary institutions.
Student Pulse also reported the pilgrimage of
Nigerian students to Ghana, spending over
N160 billion annually » as tuition fees, more
than Nigeria's annual budget for education.
Students have to jostle for admission slots, even
before they have to worry about prohibitive costs.
This is the reason why Bishop Oyedepo's
university chain is a form of deliverance for
Nigerian Education.
Surely, a few more Nigerians will have their
dreams of a degree facilitated when the new
universities are completed.
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