We Ranked the Mottos of 15 Private Universities in Nigeria

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

Replace “Truth” with “Character”, and you’ll have the motto of Ekiti State University.

This reads like a string of words thrown together just for the sake of having a motto.

This one would slap harder as a Sunday school motto.

Fountain and Achievers University can replace the middle word with anything they like, but we’ll still notice one copying the other.

Reads like something pulled out of an aspire-to-perspire book.

This motto reads like the tagline for a footwear company. God, abeg.

They better be minting first-class graduates and nothing less.

We have another Harry Potter-esque motto all the way from Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. This one means “Labour for Service and Integrity”.

It’s giving “Na who dey alive fit bag degree”.

They have a mandate to mint self-made individuals and I’m here for it.

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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.

Sounds like something a warrior would say before causing havoc in a Game of Thrones war scene.

Sounds like what a Nigerian politician would include in their manifesto.

Reading this, the only thing that comes to mind is, “Why are you running?”

I high-key love this motto because something about it sounds original.

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