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Yaba College of Technology started as Yaba Technical Institute and was renamed in 1963 by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. The name change was to reflect the college's role in developing technical skills for Nigeria's economic and social development. This led to the college gaining autonomy through an advisory board established in 1964.

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Yaba College of Education Zeenat

Yaba College of Technology started as Yaba Technical Institute and was renamed in 1963 by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. The name change was to reflect the college's role in developing technical skills for Nigeria's economic and social development. This led to the college gaining autonomy through an advisory board established in 1964.

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Yaba College of Technology, (...

first and is still the best) started as Yaba Technical Institute, which took
over all the activities of Yaba Higher College following the recommendation of the Elliot Commission on
higher education in West Africa. The Yaba Higher College was closed down, and the students were
moved to form the nucleus of the University College, Ibadan in 1948.The nation’s first Technical
Institute, Yaba Technical Institute started day and evening classes in October 1947. On September 23,
1963, Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the then Governor-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
renamed the Yaba Technical Institute as Yaba College of Technology on the occasion of the official
opening of the Engineering Block donated by Shell-British Petroleum.

The change in name was in anticipation of the dynamic role the College was to play in the production of
technical manpower for the economic and social development of Nigeria. In the words of Dr. Azikiwe,
“Yaba College of Technology is at the forefront of the overall programme for streamlining our technical
education to meet the needs of Nigeria”. This change of name became a catalyst that threw up the need
for autonomy for the College. Thus, the first step taken was the constitution of an Advisory Board in
1964 by the Minister of Education to help the College in its challenging path to the future.

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