The Federal Authorities, by the Federal Ministry of Training, will right this moment, Tuesday, set up an inter-ministerial committee to fight the actions of diploma mills.
The Director of Press and Public Relations of the ministry, Ben Goong, disclosed this in a message to journalists in Abuja.
“Minister of Training Prof. Tahir Mamman will inaugurate an inter-ministerial committee on diploma factories this afternoon,” Goong stated within the announcement.
The PUNCH stories that the actions of diploma mills as soon as once more took heart stage in discussions in Nigeria, following an investigative report by a reporter, Umar Audu, on the Day by day Nigerian Newspaper on the actions of diploma mills within the Republic of Benin and Togo.
The reporter revealed how he obtained a level inside six weeks and even entered obligatory youth service beneath the Nationwide Youth Service Corps program.
Audu, who contacted the syndicate specialised within the sale of diplomas in December 2022, graduated in February 2023 and was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication certificates from the Ecole Superieure de Gestion et de Applied sciences, Cotonou, Benin Republic .
The report which uncovered the illegalities of some tertiary establishments within the West African states led to the Nigerian authorities imposing a ban on the accreditation and analysis of levels from the Republic of Benin and Togo.
Mamman later stated the federal authorities would additional lengthen its searchlight to establishments in different African nations akin to Ghana.
To this point, no fewer than 10,900 Nigerian college students learning in Benin and Togolese universities are anticipated to be affected by the Nigerian authorities's ban, in accordance with statistics from the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students within the Republic of Benin and Togo.
Additionally, the Nationwide Universities Fee, the regulatory physique of universities in Nigeria, has revealed that no fewer than 18 of the 58 universities whose operations have been suspended in Nigeria are foreign-owned.
