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The National Universities Commission is a body first set up in 1962 inside the Cabinet Office as an advisory agency which, over the years, metamorphosed into a corporate body enacted by statute in 1974, under its first Executive Secretary, Professor Jibril Aminu. It is now one of the most active and commonly recognised regulatory agencies firmly embedded in the Federal Ministry of Education. Its mission statement states: “To be a dynamic regulatory agency acting as a catalyst for positive change and innovation for the delivery of quality university education in Nigeria”. On any rational examination of the agency, it is anything but “dynamic”. On the contrary, it has remained static and highly bureaucratic, with a jaundiced view of higher education incompatible with the needs of today’s diversified and fast-moving knowledge acquisition from multiple sources. Its remit and raison d’être have not been reviewed for 60 years. Its service delivery h