Senate urged to halt new federal varsities, poly, CoEs for seven years

The Federal Government has appealed to the National Assembly to suspend the establishment of new federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education for seven years, citing funding constraints, infrastructural deficits and declining academic standards in existing institutions.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, made the appeal in a memo dated November 2, 2026, addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
The memo, marked FME/DUE/NASS/153/Vol.1/147 urged the Senate leadership and other lawmakers to exercise restraint in considering bills seeking to establish additional federal tertiary institutions in line with the government’s seven-year morat...