Igbinedion University

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Igbinedion University is the first private university in Nigeria and arguably the most successful private university in the history of private ownership of educational institutions in Nigeria. Located at Okada Wonderland, a serene town beside Benin City, Edo state, Nigeria, the University was founded by Sir Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, a successful millionaire, philanthropist and an exemplar from that region. He has constantly attributed his drive for education to the fact that he was not educated himself, due to his humble life beginning. The university operates on a collegerial system of tertiary education. It has a variable number of accredited faculties and courses ranging from courses in Law, Medicine, Engineering and the Arts and Social Sciences. It presently has a population of about 7000 students and is presently supervised by the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Eghosa Osagie, Ph.D., who is reputed to be the youngest Vice Chancellor in Nigerian history. The University has in its few years of existence recorded several land mark achievements including being the first private university to produce Medical Doctors. It is also on record that in 2006, a student of the young Igbinedion University bagged a First Class Honours degree in the highly competitive Nigerian Bar examinations, thereby also standing out as the first and only private University in Nigeria to have achieved that feat.