Nigeria, March 15 -- The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has called on the National Assembly to halt the passing of bills for the establishment of new universities.

Speaking at the ministerial briefing in Abuja on Thursday, Mr Alausa bemoaned the proliferation of universities while the existing institutions struggle with funding challenges.

"I want to use this opportunity to talk to our legislators, members of the National Assembly, please we need to stop this flood gate; they are passing a lot of bills" he said.

"Today, I can tell you that there are almost 200 bills in the national assembly for new universities to open. We can't continue like this. Even the ones we have, we don't have enough infrastructure there. The capacity for...