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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ORDERS VARSITIES TO SUBMIT MATRICULATION LISTS.

The Federal Government has mandated all higher institutions in the country to “regularly submit their matriculation lists to the Federal Ministry of Education no later than three months after matriculation ceremonies.

The list, the government said, must be submitted “through the dedicated channel of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.”

The initiative is one of the recommendations made by a committee set up by the Federal Government to combat fake degree mills or racketeers in the country.

In March, the Federal Government set up an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling to probe the activities of certificate racketeers following an investigative report published by Daily Nigerian which exposed the activities of fake degree mills in the Benin Republic.

Daily Nigerian reporter Umar Audu revealed how he obtained a degree within six weeks and even proceeded to embark on mandatory youth service under the National Youth Service Corps scheme back in Nigeria.

The investigative report, which exposed the illegalities perpetrated by some tertiary institutions in the West African countries, led to the Nigerian government placing a ban on the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from Benin Republic and Togo.

The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, having received the report of the committee, noted that holders of fake degrees from Nigerian and foreign universities will be flushed out of the system.

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