FG SUSPENDS DEGREE CERTIFICATES FROM KENYA, UGANDA, OTHERS

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced an expansion of its suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates beyond Benin Republic and Togo, to include countries such as Uganda, Kenya, and the Niger Republic.

This was disclosed by Education Minister Tahir Mamman in an interview with Politics Today on Channels Television.

Mamman emphasized that the government would not restrict its activities to Benin and Togo alone.

He declared, “We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo; we are going to extend the dragnet to countries like Uganda, Kenya, and even Niger, where such institutions have been set up.”

The decision was made in response to an undercover journalist who revealed how simple it was for him to graduate in two months from a Benin Republic university and then sign up for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

After learning of this, the Federal Government immediately halted the accreditation of certificates from Benin and Togo, launching an extensive probe that is anticipated to be completed in three months.

Mamman expressed no sympathy for people who enroll in these kinds of institutions, seeing them more as links in a criminal chain than as actual victims.

Without reservation, he declared, “I have no sympathy for such people. Instead, they are part of the criminal chain that should be arrested.”

The minister also stated that security services would go after anyone who use fictitious international certificates to obtain jobs in Nigeria.