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University Press plc (UPPLC) is Nigeria's largest indigenous book publisher. It was founded as the Nigerian branch of the British Oxford University Press [1] in 1949 with the name Oxford University Press (OUP), Nigeria. At incorporation [2] as a public liability company in 1978, the company's name was changed to University Press Limited. [3]
A university press is an academic publishing house ... In Nigeria for example, scholarly ... The Chicago Distribution Center has also partnered with an additional 15 ...
A university press is an academic publishing house affiliated with an institution of higher learning that specializes in the publication of monographs and scholarly journals. This article outlines notable presses of this type, arranged by country; where appropriate, the page also specifies the academic institution that each press is affiliated ...
The development of academic libraries in Nigeria can be traced back to pre-independence period when the University of Ibadan and its library were established in 1948. [1] Academic libraries are set up to support learning, teaching and research in tertiary institutions.
The Library was established in 1955 for the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria Branch with a bigger complex built in 1963 The present library building was formally opened on the 10th of December 1976, by Alhaji Sir Kashim Ibrahim, after whom it is named.
A large flat-bed printing Wharfedale press was donated by "friends in Scotland" in 1903 and was still in use after 1960. Students worked in the print works and also as journalists on the Observer, Calabar's first newspaper, which was produced on the mission press. In 1903 the HWTI added classes in typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, business ...
Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan University Press, 1988. Bibliographical survey of sources for early Yoruba language and literature studies, 1820–1970. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 2001. A break in the silence : a historical note on Lt. Colonel Victor Adebukunola Banjo. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Ltd, 2001.
The opening of Sultan Bello Hall by Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, University College Ibadan, on Second February 1962 (Kenneth Dike to the left, Ahmadu Bello to the right). The university was established in 1948 as University College, Ibadan, a college of the University of London, which supervised its academic programmes and awarded degrees until 1967.