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Degree Mill: FG To Flush Out Persons Working With Fake Certificates
The federal government has disclosed that it will flush out persons in public and private organisations working with fake certificates.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamma, disclosed this on Friday when he received the report of an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling from the Chairman of the committee, Prof. Jubrila Amin.
Mamman, who expressed sadness over what was uncovered during the investigations, said the ministry would work with relevant agencies to sanitise the education sector and rid it of any fake tendencies.
“We can’t afford to have the integrity of our education soiled by some few persons. It is possible that some are carrying fake certificates in public and private organisations that need to be flushed out. This report is a product of a thorough investigation,” he said.
He said: “It is sad that someone who should come out from a Nigerian institution with a 2:1 or 2:2 is now parading an international certificate of first class.”
While noting that the ministry is determined to take steps to sanitise the system, he vowed to take decisive actions to ensure standards were enshrined in the system, saying, “We can’t afford to let down our country when it comes to standards.”
Presenting the report, Chairman of the inter-ministerial committee, Prof. Jubrila Amin, decried the horrible standard of education in those schools awarding degree certificates, saying they were an eye sore.
Amin said the problems at hand required speedy intervention, recommending that all agencies in the sector must digitise/automate their system so that they can sit in the office and monitor what is happening in all tertiary institutions.
“In the course of our investigation, we realised that the present programme of accreditation and evaluation of results is inadequate,” he said.
He, therefore, urged the National Universities Commission (NUC) to pay more attention to institutions offering part time or sandwich programmes so as not to have a repeat of 2017 saga of centres offering unaccredited courses.
“People go and get fake degrees and we have been to those countries and we know what a proper degree looks like, we know what the fake one looks like. We have given it to the ministry to scrutinise anyone presenting a certificate from those institutions,” he said.
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Edo guber: LP’s Akpata remains a front runner, set to capture Edo
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Less than twenty-four hours to the start of voting in Saturday’s governorship poll in Edo State, a rash of fake news has broken out.
Leading parties in the election have had their fair shares of fake news either indicating the withdrawal of their candidates or disqualification by a Magistrate Court or Supreme Court.
For instance, Olumide Akpata of LP was said to have withdrawn from the race and thrown his support for Asue Ighodalo in a statement that read smoothly and appeared convincing.
THE CONCLAVE sent the statement to Akpata via WhatsApp for confirmed.
He responded by sending the same statement with FAKE NEWS boldly stamped on it.
He said he was set for victory at the poll.
There was also a news flash about the Supreme Court disqualifying Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, with a sign off: More details coming….
A Magistrate Court in Abuja was also reported to have disqualified Monday Okpebholo of the APC from the poll on account of age falsification.
The APC campaign organisation had swiftly put a lie to the report by deploying the court papers in the circumstance.
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