University of Maiduguri

The University of Maiduguri was established in 1975 as one of Nigeria's second-generation federal universities, created during a period when the country was expanding higher education beyond the established university centres of the south and the older northern institutions. Located in Maiduguri, Borno State, the university was established to provide higher education, research and professional training to northeastern Nigeria and has subsequently developed an institutional role extending across the region and the wider country. The university itself describes its history as spanning more than five decades and identifies 1975 as its year of establishment.