The Phenomenal Growth Of Higher Education In Nigeria: My Strategic Role

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The Chairman's Opening Remark At The 11th Convocation Ceremony Of The Michael Okpara University Of Agriculture, Umudike, Umuahia, Abia State

On

NOVEMBER 24,  2023 

BY

SIR PROF. IHECHUKWU MADUBUIKE, OON

Former Minister Of Education 

Former Minister of Health 

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

 Protocols: 

A Historical Perspective

 Before the  Justice Cyril Asquith Commission of August, 1943, a compliment of the Elliot Commission ( June1943) and much later, the Ashby Commission on Higher Education in Nigeria in 1960, the educated elite in Lagos and other parts of West Africa had, as far back as the 1920s began a clamor for higher education in Nigeria under governor Dealtry Lugard. Lord Alfred Dealtry Lugard, imperial governor of Nigeria,1914- 1919, refused to accede to the request, insisting that the local elite must fund such a higher institution.[1] The taste for higher education further triggered the setting up of these commissions.