Alewo Johnson-Akubo, SUL vice-chancellor, disclosed this in an interview in Lokoja on Monday.
Mr Abdullahi said that NITDA had established the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
Mr Sani commended Mr Tinubu for granting a provisional licence for CPESK to operate as a private postgraduate university.
Nosa Orhue, president of the association, made the appeal in a communiqué, following the association’s National Executive Council meeting.
“This practice undermines the integrity, quality and sustainability of tertiary education in Nigeria,” the minister said.
Mr Ribadu said that the new addition increased the state-owned universities in the country to 68 and the total universities in Nigeria to 299.
Mr Tinubu urged prudent fund management to develop additional infrastructure in Nigerian universities.
The NUC in an earlier letter dated January 22, 2025, had approved 14 programmes, all to be offered full-time at the university starting in the 2024/2025.
The NUC boss, however, said the university would commence academic activities after the necessary resource verification has been carried out.
The National Universities Commission has approved eight new degree programmes for the Federal College of Education (Technical), Bichi.
