Ambrose Alli University is a university in Nigeria established in 1981. It was established by the then governor of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta States), Professor Ambrose Folorunso Alli (1979–1983). First known as Bendel State University, then Edo State University, it was later changed to its present name in commemoration of Alli. New universities are established not only because the expansion of the older universities may not be able to meet the needs and demands of potentials students but for moral, political and other reasons. They immediately begin to function like the old ones as soon as structures are in place. Ambrose Alli University is one such new generation. Unlike older universities, the story of Ambrose Alli University has similarities with many of the relatively younger universities of the developing world whose establishment depended to a large extent on the vision and conviction of some political leaders who used persuasive and coercive strategies to overcome strong opposition to the implementation of what would normally be regarded as a people-oriented development. As he often stated in the planning stages and the on set, Prof.