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To act as the agency for channeling all external aid to the universities in Nigeria.To recommend to the Visitor of a university that a visitation be made to such university as and when it considers it necessary.To undertake periodic reviews of the terms and conditions of service of personnel engaged in the universities and to make recommendations thereon to the Federal Government where appropriate.To take into account, in advising the Federal and State Governments on university finances, such grants as may be made to the Universities by the Federal and State Governments, private proprietors and by persons and institutions in and outside Nigeria.To inquire into and advise the Federal Government on the financial needs, both recurrent and capital, of university education in Nigeria and, in particular, to investigate and study the financial needs of university research and to ensure that adequate provision is made for this in the universities.To make such other investigations relating to higher education as the Commission may consider necessary in the national interest.To ensure that quality is maintained within the academic programmes of the Nigerian University System.To lay down Minimum Academic Standards in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and to accredit their degrees and other academic awards To prepare, after consultation with the State Governments, the universities, the national manpower Board and such other bodies as it considers appropriate, periodic master plans for the balanced and co-coordinated development of all universities in Nigeria.Names are listed alphabetically, and the order in which they. To advise the President and State Governors, through the Minister, on the creation of new universities and other degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria Inclusion on this list is in no way an endorsement by the Department or the U.S.