The Nationwide Universities Fee, NUC, has dismissed experiences of pretend professors found in Nigerian Universities.
The Fee dismissed the experiences in a press release by its Performing Govt Secretary, Chris Maiyaki, in Abuja on Monday.
Maiyaki described a report titled, “About 100 pretend professors simply uncovered in Nigerian universities – NUC’, as a figment of the magination of the authors.
The Performing Govt Secretary additionally described the publications as ill-conceived and a ploy by unscrupulous individuals to create disquiet at each nationwide and worldwide ranges.
“The eye of the Fee has been drawn to information objects, circulating on the social media, some nationwide dailies and tv stations, to the impact that the Fee has simply “found over 100 pretend Professors in Nigerian Universities,” Maiyaki stated.
In accordance with him, the pretend information objects had been circulating in two types – as a hyperlink to a 2019 on-line information merchandise and as a separate checklist of names of the alleged pretend professors in numerous Nigerian universities, which he stated was not the case.
He stated based mostly on the verified information, the Fee then in a landmark accomplishment, first printed the checklist of full professors who participated within the train in 2019.
He added that it was understood that this could be succeeded by a steady means of updating the checklist of full professors.
Maiyaki questioned the rationale behind recycling the ‘stale’ 2019 information of an exercise it initiated, carried out and laid to relaxation in the identical 12 months.
“The aim and goal of resurrecting in 2024 (greater than 4 years later) this-no-longer-fresh information, is clearly supposed to generate pointless controversy.
“The Fee owes it a solemn obligation to guard and guard the integrity of the various hardworking and dedicated teachers within the NUS, who’ve earned nationwide and worldwide respect and recognition,” he added.