The University of Sokoto is one of the seven new Universities that the Federal Military Government established in September 1975. The other six new Universities that were established simultaneously with Sokoto are the Universities of Bayero, Calabar, Ilorin, Jos, Maiduguri and Port Harcourt. The Universities of Calabar, Jos and Ilorin had existed earlier as University Colleges of the older universities of Nigeria, Nsukka and Ibadan respectively. Bayero University had also existed as a Campus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. By the time these four institutions were transformed into full-fledged Universities in September 1975, each one of them had been in existence for not less than three years. Of the remaining three new Universities, Maiduguri inherited the campus of the North-East College of Arts and Science but Port Harcourt and Sokoto started completely from scratch. They inherited nothing by way of building, the nucleus of a library or any other infrastructure.