Former Kaduna senator Shehu Sani on Saturday slammed the federal government over its failure to close down fake universities in Nigeria, which was exposed by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in 2019.
He also noted that they also failed to penalise fake professors that were also listed by the commission.
News About Nigeria reports that the NUC revealed in 2019 that it uncovered about 100 fake professors in universities across the country.
The Commission also published the names of the allegedly fake professors on their website.
The former Senator said this in response to the FG’s move to suspend the accreditation of degree certificates obtained from institutions in Benin Republic and Togo in a post shared on his official X account (formerly Twitter account).
The former Kaduna Senator’s post reads, “In 2019, the National Universities Commission uncovered 100 fake professors and published their names with their universities. Nothing happened afterwards.”
Recall that the federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, suspended the accreditation of degree certificates obtained from institutions in the Benin Republic and Togo following the discovery made by an undercover investigative journalist, Umar Audu.
The undercover investigative journalist revealed in his report how he was able to get a degree certificate from a university in Cotonou, a major city in the Benin Republic within six weeks and was able to do the one-year compulsory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, scheme.
Following his report, which exposed how certificates are illegally gotten from these countries, the FG, in it’s bid to properly investigate the claim, suspended the accreditation of certificates from the countries.
