The International Association for Quality Assurance in Pre-Tertiary and Higher Education (QAHE) has been featured in The Guardian (Nigeria) in an opinion article titled “Prof. Gwarzo: Building institutions, empowering Africa’s next generation,” published on 7 September 2026 and available at https://guardian.ng/opinion/prof-gwarzo-building-institutions-empowering-africas-next-generation/.
The piece, carried in The Guardian’s opinion section and attributed to the Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo Foundation, profiles Professor Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo as a scholar, founder of private universities, and president of the Association of African Private Universities (AAPU). It describes his work as centred on higher education as a means of access, skills development and institution-building in Africa.
Among the distinctions listed in the article is an Honorary Fellowship from QAHE, cited in connection with his work on educational access and the establishment of private universities. The profile also refers to an award from Morgan State University in 2025. QAHE notes the Guardian publication as an external mention of that Fellowship. An honorary title is a personal recognition. It is not institutional accreditation of a university, not a licence to grant degrees, and not a substitute for national regulation.
The Guardian article records the universities associated with the MAAUN group in the profile: Maryam Abacha American University of Niger (Maradi, 2013), Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria (Kano), Franco-British International University (Kaduna), and Canadian University of Nigeria (Abuja). It further describes the Foundation’s published work in scholarships, healthcare, youth and women empowerment, community infrastructure and related support, including a stated aim of reaching one million lives through education and philanthropy.
QAHE congratulates Professor Gwarzo on the appearance of the profile in The Guardian and on the Fellowship recorded there. Readers who wish to verify QAHE institutional listings should use the directory by exact institution name at https://www.qahe.org/list-of-accredited-institutions/, and should not treat an honorary award to an individual as a listing of every organisation with which that individual is associated.
Further information is available at www.qahe.org.
