Motto: A Key to Academic Success

Brief Histroy: The Church believes that the tripod of righteousness, resourcefulness and prayerfulness is a time-tested platform on which the true greatness of many nations had been built. The mooring for this notion is the eternal verity - “Righteousness exalts a nation”. The ministry of Apostolic faith under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Paul Akazue considered the Nigerian Government's then deregulation of education policy as a golden opportunity for the Church to participate in the upgrading of educational standards in the country, by establishing her own educational institutions. The Church realized that education is a social service which cannot be financed purely on a sustainable basis with students' fees, hence they undertook the venture, simply because the Church believes that she has a sacred and patriotic duty to lend a helping hand to alleviate the ills which plague all the tiers of educational delivery in the country (Nigeria). Crawford University is, therefore, a bold attempt by the Church to diversify into the third tier of education. The effort is geared towards producing graduates with moral excellence, self-confidence, inventive dynamism, and creativity. The Church believes that such graduates will be able to generate for themselves and the society in general, meaningful solutions to unemployment and other pressing manpower needs of the nation. Crawford University received the operating licence from the Federal Government of Nigeria on the 9th of June, 2005. The University was opened to the first batch of students on 30 September 2005. After one week of Orientation, lectures commenced on 10 October 2005. The first Matriculation Ceremony was conducted by the then Proprietor and Chancellor, Rev. (Dr.) Paul Akazue for the 235 pioneer students on 20 December 2005. The first graduation ceremony was held in 2009.