FG INAUGURATES COMMITTEE TO TACKLE FAKE DEGREES TODAY
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By Sefiu Ajape
In an attempt to stop degree mills, the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, will form an inter-ministerial group today, Tuesday.
Ben Goong, the ministry’s director of press and public relations, informed journalists in Abuja of this in a notice.
“Education Minister, Prof.Tahir Mamman, will this afternoon inaugurate an inter-ministerial committee on degree mills,” Goong said in the notice.
According to reports, an investigative article by reporter Umar Audu for the Daily Nigerian newspaper on degree mill operations in the Benin Republic and Togo brought the topic of degree mills back to the center of conversations in Nigeria.
Audu, revealed how he obtained a degree within six weeks and even proceeded to embark on mandatory youth service under the National Youth Service Corps scheme.
The reporter, who contacted the syndicate that specializes in selling degree certificates in December 2022, graduated in February 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication from the Ecole Superieure de Gestion et de Technologies, Cotonou, Benin Republic.
However, the Nigerian government banned the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from the Benin Republic and Togo as a result of the investigation that revealed the wrongdoings committed by certain tertiary institutions in the West African states.
Subsequently, Mamman declared that the Federal Government will broaden its scope to include institutions in other African nations, like Ghana.
According to data provided by the National Association of Nigerian Students in Benin Republic and Togo, as of right now, no fewer than 10,900 Nigerian students enrolled in universities in Beninois and Togo are anticipated to be impacted by the Nigerian government ban.
Furthermore, no less than eighteen of the fifty-eight universities in Nigeria whose operations have been suspended are foreign-owned, according to the National Universities Commission, the country’s regulating authority for higher education.
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