Land-Grant System

The Visionary Role of Nnamdi Azikiwe in Founding the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) as Nigeria’s First Indigenous University in 1960.

The story of higher education in Nigeria is incomplete without the towering figure of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, popularly known as “Zik of Africa.” As Nigeria approached its independence in 1960, the quest for self-determination was not limited to the political arena; it extended into the intellectual and cultural spheres. Azikiwe recognized that for a newly…