This study investigated students' participation in university governance and the organizational effectiveness in Ekiti and Ondo State of Nigeria. The variables concerned were, level of students' participation in university governance, level of organizational effectiveness and the relationship between students' participation in university governance and organizational effectiveness. A descriptive research of survey design was adopted for the study. The population for the study consisted of the staff and students of the University of Ado-Ekiti and Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko. Five hundred (500) students and two hundred (200) members of staff were selected through stratified and simple random techniques. Data were collected with an instrument titled "Questionnaire on Students' Participation in University Governance and Organizational Effectiveness (SPUGOE). The instrument was validated with a reliability coefficient of 0.93 and subsequently administered on the subjects. Simple percentage was employed to analyse the data and answer the research questions while the hypothesis raised was tested using Pearson product moment correlation technique. The result was held significant at 0.05 level. The findings of the study revealed a moderate level of students' participation in university governance and a moderate level of organizational effectiveness. A significant relationship between students' participation in university governance and organizational effectiveness in the university system was established. Therefore students' participation in university governance is an important factor in organizational effectiveness in the university system. Based on the findings of this study, conclusions were drawn. It was recommended that students should be well represented on all university statutory committees including senate and council committees to enhance level of organisational effectiveness in the system. It was also recommended that the number of students representatives on all statutory committees be increased.

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This study investigated staff and students' perception of students ' Over the decades, many African countries and most especially Nigeria, has been clamoring for the sustainability of democracy, which is the government of the people by the people and for the people. Literature has revealed that for democracy to survive, not only the appropriate political parties need be put in place. Bergan (2005) opined that higher education has been recognized as key to delivering the knowledge requirements for political development while Akomolafe and Ibijola, (2012) submitted that students' participation in university governance allows for development of leadership. Lambert (2012) posited that the campus is now the most veritable training ground for future politician and leaders. He further stressed that students who participate in unionism may not necessary be studying political science or similar courses, but they are people who are inclined to politics. Observation have also shown that, most politicians, have at one time or the other played very active role in campus politics during their school days. There have been instances also where formal student leaders later lead political or informal organizations, after graduation.Consequently, if extra-curricular students development and students participation in university governance could serve as a training ground to instill and support democratic values and practices, then students should be allowed their rightful place in university governance. However it is on records that the historical struggle of the Nigerian students for a democratic culture and tradition in the Nigerian society predates any of the existing political parties to the struggle for power. On this premise, one would agree that higher education has a very strong

This study investigated the level of Nigerian Universities' leadership compliance with the National Universities Commission's benchmark on minimum academic standard, and its impact on the quality of Nigerian university education. This is consequent upon the observations of the some stakeholders in university education, that the failure of universities' leadership to comply with the National Universities Commission (NUC) benchmark on minimum academic standard, has been the major problem of quality decline in Nigerian university education. Descriptive research of survey design was employed in the study. The population consisted of the staff members from public universities in south-west Nigeria, while the sample consisted of 50 members of staff each from 3 federal and 3 state universities. The finding revealed a moderate level of universities' leadership compliance with the NUC benchmark on minimum academic standard. The finding was compared with the table on quality of Nigerian university education. A significant relationship was established between universities' leadership compliance with NUC benchmark and quality of Nigerian university education, and no significant difference was established between the federal and state universities'