FG Inaugurates Committee to Tackle Fake Degrees Today

The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education will today set up an inter-ministerial committee to combat the activities of degree mills.

The ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Ben Goong, made this known in a notice sent to journalists in Abuja.

The notice revealed that the Education Minister, Prof.Tahir Mamman, will this afternoon, inaugurate an inter-ministerial committee on degree mills.

This follows a report which exposed the illegalities perpetrated by some tertiary institutions in the West African states led to the Nigerian government placing a ban on the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from Benin Republic and Togo.

Mamman later said the Federal Government would further extend its searchlight to institutions in other African countries such as Ghana.

Also, the National Universities Commission, the regulatory body of universities in Nigeria revealed that no fewer than 18 out of the 58 universities whose operations have been suspended in Nigeria are foreign-owned.