The National Universities Commission, the Nigerian equivalent of Ghana’s National Accreditation Board, doesn’t joke with what many Nigerians call the degree mills. Their Executive Secretary is the revered Professor Julius Okojie, a fine academic who is respected by the Nigerian intelligentsia and also well-received by anybody with a potential to pursue formal tertiary learning in Nigeria. By 2009, the NUC had closed down 36 ‘illegal’ universities that fell below the national minimum standard. ...
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