What your handbook actually requires
NUC sets credit units and examination rules. It prescribes no chapter structure at all — so your institution’s handbook is the only authority on the document you are marked on.
And they disagree. Chapter counts run from five to eight. Title limits from 22 words to 25. Body font from 12pt to 14pt. Work formatted for one institution is wrong at another.
National Open University of Nigeria5–6 chapters · title 22 words
University of Nigeria, Nsukka5–8 chapters · title 25 words
University of Ibadan5–7 chapters
Federal University of Technology, Minna5–6 chapters · 12pt
Obafemi Awolowo University5–6 chapters · 14pt
University of Ilorin5–6 chapters
Not listed? The free check still works — it falls back to the national convention and tells you so. We are adding institutions from their published handbooks, including colleges of education and polytechnics. Every figure on these pages comes from a handbook PDF we have read, never from memory.