The Administration of the College of Ilorin, Kwara State has mentioned that the checklist of faux professors allegedly attributed to be working within the establishment was not recognized to the college.
The College in a press assertion made out there to journalists in Ilorin on Sunday and signed by Mr Kunle Akogun, Director, Company Affairs mentioned that not one of the names talked about within the checklist had been employees of the college.
“The eye of the administration of the College of Ilorin has been drawn to a trending checklist of 100 faux professors in some universities within the nation as purportedly uncovered by the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC).
“Although the NUC has dissociated itself from the checklist that first surfaced in December 2019, we deem it expedient to categorically disown the 11 so-called professors listed towards the College of Ilorin within the lately exhumed report.”Not one of the individuals on the checklist is on our College’s nominal roll, nor had any of them ever had any coping with the College of Ilorin at any time or in any guise.
“This clarification is critical to guarantee our esteemed stakeholders that UNILORIN’s well-heeled fame for prime integrity and strict adherence to greatest world practices in all the pieces we do, particularly on problems with workers promotion, stays unsoiled and it could actually by no means be compromised.
“We view the trending report as one other antic of purveyors of faux information and mischief makers, and they need to be rightly ignored,” the assertion mentioned.
In the meantime, the Nationwide Universities Fee has denounced the checklist of faux professors in some Nigerian universities being circulated within the media.
The fee mentioned the checklist couldn’t have emanated from the apex regulatory instructional physique with out due session with their accredited universities.
The Deputy Government Secretary in Cost of Tutorial Directorate, Dr. Noel Abiodun Saliu defined that such info ought to be taken as mischievous and unfounded.
He asserted that such publication ought to be taken because the handiwork of mischief makers who’re out to destroy the hard-earned fame of these prestigious establishments whose names had been talked about.