According to the National Association of Nigerian Students, or NANS, Nigerian educational institutions that offer unaccredited courses have to be shut down.
This was stated in response to the Federal Ministry of Education’s announcement on Tuesday that the Republic of Benin and Togo’s degree certificates would no longer be evaluated or accredited.
Following an undercover investigation by a Nigerian newspaper that revealed the operations of a degree mill in Cotonou, a major city in the Benin Republic, the ministry blacklisted roughly eighteen educational institutions.
The factional president of the National Senate, Elvis Ekundina, praised the federal government in a statement he signed on Wednesday.
NANS ordered the Federal Government to look into the fraudulent activities of obtaining degree certificates from foreign universities by the Federal Ministry of Education, National Universities Commission (NUC), National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and other agencies.
It demanded that the government look into the operations of postsecondary educational institutions that are offering courses without accreditation, particularly those that are privately operated.
According to the statement, the institutions are offering young Nigerians who are innocent of paying for unaccredited courses, which is undermining the education system and defrauding them of their money.
In order to improve the country’s education system, the statement urged the federal government to work with NANS and other student organisations to close down illegal postsecondary schools.
