The Federal Ministry of Education on behalf of the Federal Government says it has set up an inter-ministerial committee to tackle the activities of degree scandal.
The ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Ben Goong, in a statement said the education Minister, Professor Tahir Mamman, will this afternoon, inaugurate an inter-ministerial committee on degree mills.
Recall that there were discussions on fake degrees in the country, following an investigative report on the activities of degree mills in Benin Republic and Togo, where a degree was obtained within six weeks and even proceeded to embark on mandatory youth service under the National Youth Service Corps scheme.
The report which exposed the illegalities perpetrated by some tertiary institutions in the West African states led to the Nigerian government imposing a ban on the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from Benin Republic and Togo.
Mamman later said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration would further extend its searchlight to institutions in other African countries such as Ghana.
Meanwhile, the National Universities Commission, has revealed that no fewer than 18 out of the 58 universities whose operations have been suspended in Nigeria are foreign-owned.
