The Federal Government has suspended evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from Togo and the Republic of Benin.
This follows a media report by a Nigerian newspaper that exposed how its undercover reporter, who had already graduated from a Nigerian university and served the nation’s one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), bagged a Cotonou varsity degree in just six weeks and participated in the NYSC scheme.
Reacting to the development in a statement, the Federal Ministry of Education, in a statement signed by Augustina Obilor-Duru, suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from both Benin and Togo indefinitely.
She explained that the suspension would be in effect pending the outcome of an investigation that would involve the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria and the two countries, the ministries responsible for education in the two countries, as well as the Department of State Security Services (DSS) and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
