The federal government has released the list of only eight universities accredited to award degrees to Nigerians in Togo and Benin Republic.
The Minister of Education,Tahir Mamman, disclosed the list on Sunday. He also insisted that there is no going back on the decision of the federal government to cancel some certificates awarded to Nigerians by some fake universities in Togo and Benin Republic.
Recall that the Minister, during a press conference to mark his one year in office on Friday revealed that over 22,700 Nigerians obtained fake degree certificates from Togo and Benin Republic and such certificates would be cancelled.
He further stated that the development was part of a report submitted to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) by a committee with a mandate to probe degree certificate racketeering by foreign and local universities in Nigeria following the undercover investigation report in which a Nigerian journalist acquired a degree from a university in Benin Republic in under two months and used it to get deployment for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The minister said the federal government only recognised three institutions in Togo and five in Benin Republic while he described the others as illegal institutions.
He complained that most of those parading the fake certificates didn’t even leave Nigeria but got their certificates through racketeering in collaboration with government officials at home and abroad.
The minister stated that the fake universities capitalised on the gullibility of Nigerians who patronise such fake schools.
Mamman listed three universities which the federal government approved to offer degree programs in Togo for students from Nigeria as:
1. UNIVERSITE DE LOME
2. UNIVERSITE DE KARA
3. CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF WEST AFRICA.
He also listed five universities approved to provide degree programs in the Benin Republic for students from Nigeria.
1. UNIVERSITE D’ABOMEY-CALAVI
2. UNIVERSITE DE PARAKOU
3. UNIVERSITE NATIONALE DES SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGIES
INGENIERIE ET MATHEMATIQUES.
4. UNIVERSITE NATIONALE D’ AGRICULTURE.
5. UNIVERSITE AFRICAINE DE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIF.
