 The commission has a Governing Council, currently headed by Professor Shehu Galadanchi and its Executive Secretary is Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, who assumed office on August 3, 2016.Since its establishment, the commission has transformed from a small office in the Cabinet Office to an important arm of government in the area of development and management of university education in Nigeria.The National Universities Commission or NUC as it is sometimes called in Nigeria began operations in 1962.