Covenant varsity is Nigeria’s best, sub-Sahara Africa’s seventh

Tamarauemi Ebimini

Covenant University at Ota in Ogun State has been ranked the best university in Nigeria and seventh in sub-Saharan Africa.

The private university recorded the feat in the first Times Higher Education 2023 sub-Saharan Africa rankings.

Fifty Nigerian universities made the list of top universities in Africa.

Other universities that appeared on the elite list and their ranks are: Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (26th), Benson Idahosa University, Okada (30th), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (31st), Redeemer’s University (35th), University of Ibadan (36th), Cross River State University – CRUTECH (37th), Obafemi Awolowo University – OAU, Ife (39th) Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University (43rd), Adeleke University (45th), and Ahmadu Bello University (46th) among others.

The Times Higher Education announced the ranking in Accra, Ghana on June 26.

Chairman of Nigerian Universities Ranking Advisory Committee (NURAC), Prof. Peter Okebukola, led a delegation from Nigeria to attend the event.

Other members of the delegation are Dr. Noel Biodun Saliu, Deputy Executive Secretary (Academics) at the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun (member of NURAC, representing southwest zone).

The vice chancellors of Covenant University, Landmark University and Skyline University were among the other university leaders from Nigeria.

He stressed that on all measures, Nigerian universities did impressively well, with much room for improvement.