There Are 100 Fake Professors in Nigerian Universities – NUC

By Akinwale Kasali

Here is the news.A good number of Graduates from Nigerian Universities, may have been short changed.

Here is why.

The Nigeria Universities Commission, NUC, says the Universities parade, at least, 100 fake Professors.

It has, therefore, directed all Vice Chancellors under its leadership, to check the excesses of their affiliated institutions, noting that universities must spearhead the fight against academic corruption.

This move became sacrosanct following the NUCs discoveries of 100 fake professors across Nigerian universities.

The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, broke this shocking news  in the November edition of the Commission’s bulletin made available to the media.

Rasheed 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 purpose.

He made this disclosure at the 2019 retreat for Vice-Chancellors by the NUC Strategy Advisory Committee.

He said, “The updated version of those documents will be published by December 2019. Professors in their respective universities uploaded their CVs 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 Commission’s Secretary also 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.