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We’ve established that Nigerian public universities need to hire new wordsmiths to revamp their mottos.
It’s time to find out what’s happening with their private counterparts.
Babcock University: Knowledge, truth, service
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Replace “Truth” with “Character”, and you’ll have the motto of Ekiti State University.
Adeleke University: Education, excellence and character
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This reads like a string of words thrown together just for the sake of having a motto.
Fountain University: Knowledge, faith and leadership
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This one would slap harder as a Sunday school motto.
Achievers University: Knowledge, integrity and leadership
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Fountain and Achievers University can replace the middle word with anything they like, but we’ll still notice one copying the other.
Bowen University: Excellence and Godliness
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Reads like something pulled out of an aspire-to-perspire book.
American University of Nigeria: Quality, integrity, style
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This motto reads like the tagline for a footwear company. God, abeg.
Crescent University: Citadel of academic excellence
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They better be minting first-class graduates and nothing less.
Afe Babalola University: Labor servitum et integritas
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We have another Harry Potter-esque motto all the way from Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. This one means “Labour for Service and Integrity”.
Baze University: Learn to live
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It’s giving “Na who dey alive fit bag degree”.
Lead City University: Knowledge for self-reliance
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They have a mandate to mint self-made individuals and I’m here for it.
Mountain Top University: Empowered to excel
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Another motto heavy on the self-made vibe. I’ll take a private university’s gospel of empowerment over public universities’ servitude agenda.
Caleb University: For God and humanity
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Sounds like something a warrior would say before causing havoc in a Game of Thrones war scene.
Covenant University: Raising a new generation of leaders
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Sounds like what a Nigerian politician would include in their manifesto.
Redeemer’s University: Running with a vision
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Reading this, the only thing that comes to mind is, “Why are you running?”
Bells University of Technology: Only the best is good for bells
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I high-key love this motto because something about it sounds original.
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