Nigerian University students participate in the West African University Games (WAUG). This is normally held at four-year interval. The last edition was held at the University of Port-Harcourt, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria in November 2018.

The competition was first held in 1965 in Ibadan, Nigeria, and has been held on a roughly once ever four to six years since 1989.

• 1965 Nigeria Ibadan
• 1967 Ghana Legon (Accra)
• 1969 Sierra Leone Freetown
• 1971 Nigeria Lagos
• 1973 Ghana Kumasi
• 1975 Nigeria Ifẹ
• 1977 Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro
• 1989 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
• 1995 Nigeria Benin City
• 1999 Benin Cotonou
• 2003 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
• 2008 Ghana Accra
• 2012 Nigeria Ilorin
• 2018 Nigeria Port Harcourt