The federal government through the federal ministry of education has set up a committee to look into the activities of private universities established in the last 15 years.
The minister of education, professor Tahir Mamman, said this will show if the private institutions under investigation have in the place prescribed facilities, adequate management structure, and adequate funding of programmes among others.
The minister said this during the inauguration of the inter-ministerial committee on degree mills in the country.
He also noted that the inter-ministerial committee set up to look into the activities of illegal universities will also examine, the veracity of the allegations of degree certificate racketeering within both foreign and local private universities in Nigeria.
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