Nigeria, April 20 -- In August 2025, the Tinubu administration imposed a seven-year moratorium on the creation of new federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of Education, and a six-year moratorium for private ones. In 1979, before it left office, the Obasanjo administration had imposed a similar moratorium on the establishment of universities and higher institutions in Nigeria. There were only thirteen universities in Nigeria then, following the establishment of seven new universities and polytechnics in the country. Yet there was a gap. Six states, including the federal capital territory, Abuja, had no universities, or any higher institution for that matter. The private sector was also barred from participating in the higher e...