NANS urges FG to suspend institutions running unaccredited courses

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged the federal government to suspend Nigerian tertiary institutions running unaccredited courses.

The student body said this after the Federal Ministry of Education announced the suspension of the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from the Republic of Benin and Togo on Tuesday.

The ministry blacklisted about 18 of the learning institutions following an undercover investigation conducted by a Nigerian newspaper that exposed the activities of a degree mill in Cotonou, a major city in the Republic of Benin.

In a statement signed on Wednesday by Elvis Ekundina, the factional National Senate President commended the federal government’s initiative.

NANS charged the Federal Government to commence an investigation into the activities of the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and other agencies fingered in the fraudulent activities of obtaining degree certificates from foreign universities.

The Association called on the government to beam its searchlight into the activities of tertiary institutions, especially privately owned ones, that are running unaccredited courses.

The statement noted that the institutions, in their fraudulent acts, are destroying the education sector and swindling innocent young Nigerians of their money by offering them unaccredited courses.

The statement called on the Federal Government to collaborate with NANS and other student bodies to rid the country of illegal tertiary institutions and reposition the nation’s education sector for the better