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FULL LIST: Newly Restructured Programmes In Nigerian Varsities

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3 years ago

September 1, 2023

The National Universities Commission recently unveiled a newly restructured curriculum for Nigerian universities.

The acting Executive Secretary of the commission, Dr. Chris Maiyaki, during a meeting with stakeholders last week, reiterated that the implementation of the new curriculum will commence in September 2023.

According to Maiyaki, the new curriculum CCMAS would make up 70 per cent of the curriculum while the university decides what to include in the remaining 30 per cent.

According to him, the implementation will help sharpen the future of education sector.

The new curriculum as analysed by The PUNCH means that universities in the country will officially have 17 disciplines of faculties namely Administration and Management; Agriculture; Allied Health Sciences; Architecture; Arts; Basic Medical Sciences; Communications and Media Studies; Computing; Education; Engineering and Technology; Environmental Sciences; Law; Medicine and Dentistry; Pharmaceutical Sciences; Sciences; Social Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.

Notable points to look out for include the unbundling of mass communications to create a distinct discipline of Communications comprising degree programmes in Advertising, Broadcasting, Development Communication Studies, Film and Multimedia, Information and Media Studies, Journalism and Media Studies, Mass Communication, Public Relations and Strategic Communication; Agriculture was unbundled into programmes in its contributing components of B.Sc Agricultural Economics, B.Sc. Animal Science, B.Sc. Crop Science and B.Sc. Soil Science;

The unbundling of Architecture and introduction of Architecture as a new discipline with programmes like Architecture, Architectural Technology, Furniture Design, Interior Architecture Design, Landscape Architecture and Naval architecture;

The split of the Basic Medical Sciences discipline into two – Basic Medical
Sciences and Allied Health Sciences; Attached to this article is the full list of programmes in their respective disciplines.

Administration and Management

Department of Accounting
Department of Actuarial Science
Department of Aviation Management
Department of Finance
Department of Business Administration
Department of Business Information Technology
Department of Co-operative and Rural Development
Department of Employment and Human Resource Management
Department of Entrepreneurship
Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management B.Sc.

Department of Information Resource Management B.Sc.

Department of Insurance B.Sc.

Department of Local Government and Development Studies B.Sc.

Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management B.Sc

Department of Marketing B.Sc.

Department of Office and Information Management B.Sc.

Department of Petroleum Information Management B.Sc.

Department Procurement Management B.Sc.

Department of Project Management

Department of Public Administration

Department of Security and Investment

Department of Taxation

Department of Transport Management

–Faculty of Agriculture

1. Agribusiness
B.Sc. Agribusiness
2. Agricultural Science (5-year option)
B. Agriculture
3. Agricultural Economics
B.Sc. Agricultural Economics
4. Agricultural Extension
B.Sc. Agricultural Extension
5. Animal Science
B.Sc. Animal Science
6. Crop Science
B.Sc. Crop Science
7. Family and Consumer Sciences
B. Sc. Family and Consumer Sciences
8. Fisheries and Aquaculture
B.Sc. Fisheries and Aquaculture
9. Food Science and Technology
B. Sc. / B. Tech
10.Forest Resources and Wildlife Management
B.Sc. Forest Resources and Wildlife Management
11. Horticulture and Landscape Management
B.Sc. Horticulture and landscape Management
12. Soil Science
B.Sc. Soil Science
13. Water Resources Management and Agro-meteorology
B.Sc. Water Resources and Ago-meteorology

–Faculty of Allied Health Sciences

1. Audiology – B.AUD
2. Complementary and Alternative Medicine – B.Sc. CAM
3. Dental Technology B.Sc. DNT
4. Dental Therapy B.DT
5. Environmental Health Science B.EHS
6. Health Care Administration and Hospital Management B.Sc. HAM
7. Health Information Management
B.HIM
8. Information Technology and Health Informatics B.Sc. ITH
9. Medical Laboratory Science BMLS
10. Nursing Sciences B.N.Sc
11. Human Nutrition and Dietetics B.Sc.
12. Occupational Therapy B.OT.
13. Optometry O.D
14. Pharmacology B.Sc. PHA
15. Physiotherapy DP
16. Prosthetics and Orthotics B.Sc. P&O
17. Public Health B.Sc.
18. Radiography B.Rad
19. Speech-Language Therapy B.SLT

–Architecture

1. Architecture
2. Architectural technology
3. Furniture design
4. Interior architecture design
5. Landscape architecture
6. Naval architecture

–Arts

B.A Folklore

B.A Film production

B.A African Languages and Literature Efik

B.A African Languages and Literature Hausa

B.A African Languages and Literature Ibibio

B.A African Languages and Literature Igbo

B.A African Languages and Literature Yoruba

B.A African Traditional Religion

B.A Arabic

B.A Archaeology

B.A Chinese language

B.A Christian Religious Studies

B.A Christian Theology

B.A Classics

B.A English Language and Literature in English

B.A history and diplomatic studies

B.A History

B.A Islamic studies

B.A Linguistics

B.A Modern European Languages French

B.A Modern European Languages German

B.A Modern European Languages Russia

B.A Music

B.A Philosophy

B.A Religious Studies

B.A Theatre Arts

-Basic Medical Sciences

1. Human Anatomy B.Sc.
2 Physiology B.Sc.

–Communications and Media Studies

BSC Strategic communications

BSC advertising

BSC Broadcasting

BSC Development Communications Studies

BSC Film and multimedia

BSC Information and Media Studies

BSC Journalism and Media Studies

BSC Mass Communications

BSC Public Relations

-Computing

BSC Cybersecurity

BSC Software Engineering

BSC Data Science

BSC Information and Communications Technology

BSC of Information Technology

BSC Information System

BSC Computer Science

–Education

1 Adult and Continuing Education B. Ed
2 Agricultural Education B. Sc. (Ed)
3 Arabic B. A. (Ed)
4 Biology B. Sc. (Ed)
5 Business Education B. Sc. (Ed)
6 Chemistry B. Sc. (Ed)
7 Christian Religious Studies B.A. (Ed)
8 Computer Science B. Sc. (Ed)
9 Creative Arts Education B. A. (Ed)
10 Early Childhood Education B. (Ed)
11 Economics B. Sc. (Ed)
12 Educational Management B. (Ed)
13 Efik-Ibibio Education B. A. (Ed)
14 English Language/Literature-in-English B. A. (Ed)
15 Entrepreneurship Education B. Ed
16 Environmental Education B. Sc. (Ed)
17 French B. A. (Ed)
18 Geography B. Sc. (Ed)
19 Guidance and Counseling B. (Ed)
20 Hausa B. A. (Ed)
21 Health Education B. (Ed)
22 History B. A. (Ed)
23 Home Economics B. Sc. (Ed)
24 Human Kinetics/Physical Education B. (Ed)
25 Igbo B. A. (Ed)
26 Integrated Science B. Sc. (Ed)
27 Islamic Studies B. A. (Ed)
28 Language Arts and Communication B. A. (Ed)
29 Library and Information Science B. Ed
30 Mathematics B. Sc. (Ed)
31 Music B. A. (Ed)
32 Physics B. Sc. (Ed)
33 Political Science B. Sc. (Ed)
34 Primary Education B. Ed
35 Social Studies and Civic Education B. Sc. (Ed)
36 Special Needs Education B. (Ed)
37 Sustainable Development Studies B. Sc. (Ed)
38 Technology Education B. Tech. (Ed)
39 Yoruba

–ENGINEERING

1 Aerospace Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

2 Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

3 Automotive Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

4 Biomedical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

5 Chemical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

6 Civil Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

7 Computer Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

8 Electrical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

9 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

10 Electronic Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

11 Environmental Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

12 Food Science and Engineering/Technology
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

13 Industrial and Production Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

14 Information and Communication Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

15 Marine Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

16 Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

17 Mechanical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

18 Mechatronics Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

19 Metallurgical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

20 Mining Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

21 Natural Gas Engineering
B.Eng/B. Tech/B.Sc.

22 Petrochemical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

23 Petroleum Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

24 Petroleum and Gas Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

25 Structural Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

26 Systems Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

27 Telecommunications Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

28 Water Resources Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

29 Wood Products Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.

–LAW

1. Common Law
2. Combined Law

-Medicine and Dentistry

1 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS/MBChB)
2 Dentistry Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS/BChD)

–Sciences

1 Applied Geophysics B.Sc.
2 Biochemistry B.Sc.
3 Biology B.Sc.
4 Biotechnology B.Sc.
5 Botany B.Sc.
6 Brewing Science and Technology B.Sc.
7 Chemistry B.Sc.
8 Environmental Management and Toxicology B.Sc.
9 Forensic Science B.Sc.
10 Geology B.Sc.
11 Industrial Chemistry B.Sc.
12 Industrial Mathematics B.Sc.
13 Industrial Physics B.Sc.
14 Marine Science B.Sc.
15 Maritime Science B.Sc.
16 Mathematics B.Sc.
17 Medical Physics B.Sc.
18 Medicinal Chemistry B.Sc.
19 Meteorology B.Sc.
20 Microbiology B.Sc.
21 Petroleum Chemistry B.Sc.
22 Physics with Electronics B.Sc.
23 Physics B.Sc.
24 Science Laboratory Technology B.Sc.
25 Statistics B.Sc.
26 Zoology B.Sc.

–SOCIAL SCIENCES

1 Criminology and Security Studies B.Sc
2 Demography and Social Statistics B.Sc
3 Development Studies B.Sc
4 Economics B.Sc
5 International Relations B.Sc
6 Peace and Conflict Resolution B.Sc
7 Petroleum Economics and Policy Studies B.Sc
8 Political Science B.Sc
9 Politics, Philosophy and Economics B.Sc
10 Psychology B.Sc
11 Social Standards B.Sc
12 Social Work B.Sc.
13 Sociology B.Sc

-Veterinary medicine

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Courses under Environmental sciences could not be accessed at the time of filing this report
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Children’s Day: Chaos At Ogbe Stadium As Dozens Faint

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15 hours ago

May 27, 2026

Editor

Chaos erupted on Wednesday during the Children’s Day celebration as dozens of students reportedly collapsed following a stampede triggered by the use of pepper spray.

The event,
organised by the Edo State Ministry of Education at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium was disrupted after some male students of Ihogbe College allegedly made uncompromising advances towards female students at the venue.
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‎ A parent who identified himself as Oboh Emmanuel said, “the behaviour of those uncultured students attracted the attention of bouncers stationed at the stadium as they rebuked the male students.”
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‎Oboh said the affected students later regrouped and attacked the bouncers, leading to a confrontation within the crowded arena.

READ ALSO:Children’s Day: Edo Commits To Child Protection
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It was gathered that in the ensuing confusion, the bouncers were reported to have deployed pepper spray in an area occupied by a large number of students.
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‎Several students, particularly female students, reportedly fainted after inhaling the substance, while others sustained injuries after being stepped on during the ensuing melee.
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‎The panic was said to have spread across the stadium as students, teachers and parents scampered for safety.
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‎Many of the affected students were reportedly rushed to the Edo Specialist Hospital for medical attention.

Reacting to the incident, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Monday Okpebholo, Dr Patrick Ebojele, said the security personnel that fired the tear gas had been detained.

He said all the students, except two, that were rushed to the hospital have been discharged.

Ebojele stated that doctors wanted to observe the students till tomorrow before allowing them to go home.

“The two students are not seriously injured. Doctors want to observe them overnight. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education is still at the hospital. The man who used pepper spray has been detained.

“The incident did not happen the way it is being exaggerated. All modalities were put in place to ensure the children enjoyed their day.”
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Okpebholo Salutes Edo Muslims, Seeks Continued Support, Prayers

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16 hours ago

May 27, 2026

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Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has urged Muslims and all Nigerians to continue to pray for peace, unity and progress in the country even as they celebrate the annual Eid-al-Adha

The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Dennis Idahosa, stated this during the annual Eid-al-Adha celebration with Muslim faithfuls held at Government House in Benin City.

He reiterated his administration’s commitment to fairness, inclusivity and equal opportunities for all citizens irrespective of religion and tribe.

According to him, the present administration remains determined to building a government that reflects the diversity of Edo State, noting that competent and qualified Muslims have continued to play vital roles in his government because of their capacity, integrity and commitment to service.

“As a government, we remain committed to fairness, inclusivity and equal opportunity for every Edo citizen, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or political affiliation. This is why quality and competent Muslims are serving in key positions in our administration.”

Okpebholo appreciated the Muslim community in Edo State for their unwavering support and continuous prayers for his administration, noting that such prayers and support have contributed immensely to the peace and steady development being witnessed across the state.

He then called on all Nigerians to use the occasion of Eid-al-Adha to pray for the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stressing that the country needs collective prayers, unity and cooperation to overcome its present economic and security challenges.

“I urge all Muslims and indeed all Nigerians to use this occasion to pray for our dear nation and for the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Nigeria needs our collective prayers, unity and support as we strive to overcome our challenges and build a more prosperous future for all.”

In his remarks, the Chief Imam of Edo State, Abdulfatai Enabulele, applauded the governor for what he described as remarkable developmental strides recorded in less than two years in office.

The cleric commended the administration for ongoing infrastructural development and efforts geared towards improving governance in the state, but appealed to the government to revisit and complete some abandoned projects inherited from the previous administration for the benefit of the people.

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Children’s Day: Edo Commits To Child Protection

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16 hours ago

May 27, 2026

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The Edo State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the rights of children, promoting quality education, and strengthening sports development across the state.

This assurance was given by the governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, during the 2026 Children’s Day Celebration and Governor’s Cup Finale held on Wednesday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City.

Addressing pupils, students and teachers,
the governor described children as the pride of Edo State and the future of the nation.

The governor, represented by his deputy, Dennis Idahosa,
noted that the annual celebration provides an opportunity to honour their dreams, talents, and limitless potential.

Speaking on this year’s Children’s Day theme, “Choose Kindness, Reject Bullying,” the governor said the message was timely and significant, as it emphasizes the need to create safe, supportive, and inclusive environments for children both in schools and communities.

He stated that bullying in all forms — physical, verbal, emotional, or online — has no place in society, adding that the Edo State Government remains fully committed to protecting the rights and dignity of every child.

According to him, the administration will continue to strengthen policies and programmes that promote child protection, discipline, mutual respect, and positive learning environments across schools in the State.

The governor urged children to embrace kindness, compassion, teamwork, and respect for one another, stressing that true strength lies not in intimidation but in empathy, good character, and mutual understanding.