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Facts have emerged on the real reason the National Universities Commission (NUC) published the names of 57 illegal degree-awarding institutions in the country.
The education regulatory body had a few weeks ago, published names of 57 institutions which they considered illegal and had vowed to sanction them in no distant future.
The commission’s director of information, Malam Ibrahim Yakasai, stated that the presence of the new administration is not responsible for the published list of illegal universities in the country.
Yakasai, who spoke with newsmen on Friday, said the list of illegal universities had always been published in the commission’s bulletin for the past five years, Daily Post reports.
He added that there are no illegal universities operating in the country at present.
“The list has been in existence for the past three to five years; the report that NUC suddenly woke up because of `change’ is mischievous.
“There in no illegal university in Nigeria now; no illegal university in Nigeria has produced a graduate.
“We have a committee on illegal universities and they work in partnership with law enforcement agencies – the police, ICPC, EFCC, among others.
“We publish the list of illegal universities repeatedly in order to stigmatise them and make sure nobody uses them again; in the last one year, there has been no case of illegal university,” Yakasai informed.
The commission, according to its information director, has started prosecuting several operators of illegal universities with only two convictions to show for it so far due to slow court process.
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