Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBUL) is a state-owned university in Lapai, Niger State, central Nigeria, established in 2005 by the Niger State government and named after former Military Head of State General Ibrahim Babangida, a native of Minna, Niger State. The university began academic activities in the 2005/2006 session and held its first convocation in 2014. IBBUL operates through faculties including Agriculture, Arts and Social Sciences, Education, Engineering, Life Sciences, Management Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Computing, with roughly 7,000 students.

IBBUL’s motto is „Learning for Service.“ The university has partnered internationally with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India) as lead partner on a joint project alongside Samtse College of Education (Bhutan), the Open University of Tanzania, and UNESCO Bangladesh. In 2021, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation endowed the university with a High Impact Geological Research Laboratory.