9:00 AM Registration Starts
9:50 AM Opening Ceremony
- Welcome Address
- Keynote Address – Keynote Topic: Reimaging Nigerian Universities for Resilience: Leadership, Innovation, and Sustainability in a Disruptive Era
- Goodwill Messages
- Plenary Session:Governance, Autonomy, and Financial Sustainability: Rethinking University Systems in Nigeria
- Session 1:Diversifying funding beyond government subventions
- Session 2: Balancing autonomy with accountability
- Session 3: Strengthening university councils and leadership capacity
- Special Roundtable / Fireside Chat: “University–Industry–Government Collaboration: Driving National Competitiveness Through Higher Education”
- Third Quarter Meeting of CVCNU