Nile University of Nigeria

Nile University of Nigeria
Motto	Build Your Success For A Better Society
Type	Private
Established	2009; 15 years ago
Vice-Chancellor	Dilli Dogo
Academic staff	698
Address	Plot 681, Cadastral Zone C-OO, Research & Institution Area, Jabi Airport Bypass, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria; 9°00′58″N 7°23′53″E / 9.016°N 7.398°E
Campus	Urban, 279 acres (113 ha)
Colors	White & blue
Nickname	Nile Spartans
Affiliations	Honoris United Universities
Website	https://nileuniversity.edu.ng https://nileuniversity.edu.ng/nile-library

Nile University of Nigeria (NILE) is a private multidisciplinary university established in 2009 and located in Abuja, Nigeria. It is a member of the Honoris United Universities Network and accredited by the National Universities Commission.^[1]^[2]^[3] Currently, it has eight faculties and a School of Postgraduate Studies offering 34 undergraduate programs and 47 postgraduate programs.^[2]^[4]

In addition to its standard academic programs, Nile University of Nigeria—through its Centre for Lifelong Learning (CELL)— offers short, on-demand, professional courses that are tailored to the needs of the participants.

In 2020, Nile University joined the Honoris United Universities network becoming one of the 14 member Universities alongside ESPRIT and Université Mundiapolis.^[5]^[2]

In March 2021, Nile University accepted to partner with the Ministry of Science and Technology in the production of the COVID-19 vaccine.^[6]

History

Nile University, founded in 2009 and sited on a 113-hectare campus got acquired in July 2020 by Actis Capital backed Honoris United Universities becoming one of its member universities alongside educational institutions in countries of Tunisia (IMSET), Morocco (EMSI), Mauritius (Honoris Educational Network), South Africa (Mancosa, Regent Business School) Zimbabwe and Zambia. Nigeria is also the education group's first entry into West Africa.^[7]^[8] At the time of formation, NILE had three faculties (Arts & Social Sciences, Engineering, and Natural & Applied Sciences) and 93 students.^[9]^[2] In June 2021, the University's logo was changed^[10]

The university as a result of structural changes in administration, changes its logo in 21 June 2021.^[10]

In a bid to restructure the face of the institution, in June 21, 2021, the University changed it logo to mirror the objectives.^[11]

Administration

The University current Principal officers^[12] is presented below:

Principal Officers
S/N	Name	Office
1.	Professor Dilli Dogo	Vice-Chancellor
2.	Professor Saleh Abdullahi	Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics)
3.	Prof. A. Prema Kirubakaran	Deputy Vice Chancellor (Central Admin)
4.	Mr. David Olowola	Registrar
5.	Prof. Christopher Nkiko	University Librarian

Academics

The university currently offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs across 7 faculties:

Faculty of Engineering

Computer Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng)
Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng, PhD)
Civil Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng)
Petroleum and Gas Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng)
Chemical Engineering (BEng)
Mechanical Engineering (BEng)
Mechatronics Engineering (BEng)

Faculty of Sciences

Biology (BSc, PGD, MSc)
Biotechnology (BSc)
Biochemistry (BSc)
Microbiology (BSc)
Analytical Chemistry (MSc)
Industrial Chemistry (BSc, MSc, PhD)

Faculty of Computing

Software Engineering
Information Technology
Cyber Security
Computer Science (BSc, PGD, MSc, PhD)

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Economics (BSc, PGD, MSc, MPhil, PhD)
Financial Economics (MSc)
Financial Economics (MFE)
English Language and Communication Studies (BSc, MA)
Political Science and International Relations (BSc)
International Relations and Diplomacy (PGD, MSc, PhD)
International Relations (MIR)
Political Science (PGD, MSc, PhD)
Peace, Conflict and Strategic Studies (PGD, MSc, MPhil, PhD)
Mass Communication (BSc)
Criminology and Security Studies (BSc)
Sociology (BSc)
Psychology (BSc)

Faculty of Management Sciences

Business Administration (BSc)
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Management (PGD, MSc, MPhil, PhD)
Banking and Finance (BSc)
Public Administration (BSc)
Accounting (BSc, PGD, MSc, P.hD)
Auditing & Finance (MSc)
Auditing & Forensic Management (MSc)
Estate Management (BSc)
Marketing (BSc)

Faculty of Law

Law (LLB)^[13]
Law (PGD)^[14]
Law (LLM)^[14]
Law (PhD)^[14]

Faculty of Environmental Sciences

Architecture (BSc)
Urban and Regional Planning (BSc)
Estate Management (BSc)
Building Technology (BSc)
Quantity Survey (BSc)

College of Health Sciences^[15]

Medicine and Surgery (MBBS)
Public Health (BPH)
Human Anatomy (BSc)
Human Physiology (BSc)
Public Health (MPH)

Nile University of Nigeria Library

The Nile University of Nigeria Library is an academic library that serves the information needs of staff, students and researchers in the Nile University of Nigeria community.^[16] Nile University of Nigeria Library is a smart, hybrid, modern and world-class academic library with physical and virtual components, that offer an exceptional experience to its community patrons for global competitive learning, teaching and research as well as engages in other requisite activities geared towards the actualization of corporate objectives of Nile University of Nigeria^[17]

The Nile University of Nigeria Library was established in 2009 (the same year the university was established) to support the teaching, learning and research objectives of the university. The library is located beside the Block B building with over 24,000 volumes of collections (serials inclusive). The library provides information materials in print and electronic formats to serve the needs of staff and students of faculty of arts and social sciences, faculty of management sciences, faculty of sciences, faculty of law, faculty of engineering, faculty of environmental sciences, faculty of computing and college of health science.^[18] There is a separate library for the faculty of law students and staff which is located in the faculty of law building of the university. The library uses an integrated library management software 'YORDAM' to automate it services.^{[citation needed]} The ILMS has several modules which help in carrying out some of the library services like charging and discharging of users, registration of users, users clearance, cataloguing and classification of information materials, serials management and among others.

The library collections over the years have grown to 24,000 volumes of monographs and electronic resources. The library curate e-books in different disciplines and make them accessible to library users remotely. There are over 7000 volumes of periodicals, including both local and foreign journals. The library also subscribes to research databases for users to access at the e-library section of the library and remotely. These include: Ebscohost, Research4Life, Heinonline, LexisNexis, SCOPUS, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, OnePetro, Proquest, JSTOR.^[16]

The library is currently headed by a University Librarian in person of Prof. Christopher Nkiko. He has over 25 years of experience in managing a University Library. The staff strength of the library include: six Professional Librarians, six Paraprofessional Librarians and 1 Administrative Assistant

Some of the services provided by NUN Library include but not limited to:

Online reference services and Selective Dissemination of Information
Circulation services
Current Awareness services
Inter-library services
Information Literacy service
Reprographic services
Multimedia services
Knowledge management services
Preservation and conservation services
Archiving services
Indexing & Abstracting services
Bibliographic services
E-library services

Accreditation

The university's degrees are accredited by the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) and professional authorities including ICAN, COREN, Council of Legal Education and Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN).^[3] The Faculty of law got approval from the Council of Legal Education (CLE) to run Postgraduate Law programs and admitted first set of postgraduate students in 2022/2023 academic session.^[19]

Inaugural Lecture Series

Nile University of Nigeria held her first Inaugural Lecture on July 18, 2024, which was delivered by Prof Titilayo Obilade, a Professor of Community Medicine. The title of the inaugural lecture was "Health Messaging: Currency for Today, Savings for Tomorrow". Prof. Obilade drew on her years of experience in academia as well as her work in global health and community service to emphasize the importance of timely and accurate health messages in both preventing health crises in the short term and laying the groundwork for long-term health improvements.^[20]

Sports & scholarships

Official basketball team logo

Nile Spartans

Nile University hosts a basketball team called Nile Spartans formed in 2018 which regularly featured in the second tier of the Nigerian National Basketball League and won the prestigious National Division Two in November 2019 and the Sam Ogwuche International Sports Foundation tournament in June 2021.^[21]^[22]

The team, joined the National Division One league and won the league in 2021.^[21]^[22]

The university offers full sports scholarships to students with outstanding performance in sports at national or professional level if they participate in the Nile basketball team.^[21] There are also partial academic scholarships for students which range from 10% to 100% and are based on students’ performances in the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exams.^[22]

The university's athletes have participated in various major competitions where it won the 2018 West African University Games, the 8th National Swimming Championship (2018) and the World Junior Tennis Tour (2019).^[22]

In February 2022, Nile University qualified for the 26th edition of the Nigerian University Games (NUGA) that was held in University of Lagos. It was the first appearance of the university and the sport team came back as the third placed University on the medals table.^[23]

Student representative council (SRC)

Student representative council consists of undergraduate students elected to represent members from their respective academic units. It is led by a President assisted by a vice-president and several other members of the executive committee elected individually.^[24]