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| Prof Abubakar Rasheed |
The National
Universities Commission has said it has uncovered about 100 fake professors
across Nigerian universities.
The NUC Executive
Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, stated this in the November edition of the
commission’s bulletin.
The ES noted that the
commission published the details of the fake professors on its website and also
sent the names to the various universities for verification.
According to the
bulletin, Rasheed stated this at the 2019 retreat for Vice-Chancellors by the
NUC Strategy Advisory Committee.
The NUC boss said,
“The updated version of those documents will be published by December 2019 and
professors in their respective universities uploaded their
CV on the website
which was used in the compilation of the directory. About 100 fake professors
also uploaded their details but we detected them.
“This measure helped
in identifying fake professors in the system. The fight against fake professors
is a collective responsibility.”
The Executive
Secretary informed the vice-chancellors of a recent meeting held with the
Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim,
where the latter complained that some corps members’ degree certificates
purportedly obtained from some prestigious universities were questionable.
The NUC boss directed
that VCs should check the excesses of their affiliated institutions, noting that
universities must spearhead the fight against academic corruption which must be
tackled by all stakeholders.
The bulletin stated
that the committee published a directory of full professors in the Nigerian
university system, statistical digest of the NUS 2017-2018; refinement and
modernisation of instruments for accreditation of undergraduate, postgraduate,
part-time, affiliate, open and distance learning programmes as well as the
state of university education in Nigeria 2017- 2018.
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