
Alarm, as private varsities can’t enrol enough students
It was observed during this period that the threat to qualitative university education was so real that its subsequent devastating effect in Nigeria would be irreparable hence the promulgation of Decree No. 19 of 1984 and 16 of 1985 to sanitise the system. The growing increase in the number of prospective candidates for admission into universities and increasing inability of existing public universities to cope with the increase in demand for university placement, necessitated a review of the 1984 ban.