The Federal Government is investigating 107 universities for issuing fake degrees.
The government is asking for input from the public as its start investigating private universities that were created in the past 15 years.
The government started looking into this after a journalist from Daily Nigerian, Umar Audu, carried out investigation and found out about fake certificates being sold in Benin Republic and Togo.
In the past 15 years, more than 107 private universities have been set up.
The Federal Government’s Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling will review whether private universities established in the past 15 years have the required facilities, proper management, sufficient program funding, necessary staff qualifications, and types of staff employed – including full-time, contract, adjunct, visiting, and other categories.
“Without prejudice to the periodic accreditation exercise of the National Universities Commission.
“Memoranda from the general public are, therefore, solicited to provide information to the committee to help it make appropriate recommendations to address the menace in line with its terms of reference,” the committee said.
