The National Universities Commission (NUC) has dismissed reports of fake professors in Nigerian Universities.
The commission said this in a statement by the commission’s Acting Executive Secretary, Chris Maiyaki in Abuja on Monday.
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He described the report titled, “About 100 fake professors just uncovered in Nigerian universities – NUC’, as a figment of the imagination of the author(s).
Maiyaki also described the publications as ill-conceived and a ploy by unscrupulous persons to create in plausible a tone, disquiet, panic, and provoking outcries at both the national and international levels.
Maiyaki explained that the fake news items had been circulating in two forms- as a link to a 2019 online news item and as a separate list of names of the alleged fake Professors in various Nigerian Universities, which he said was not the case.
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According to him, based on the verified data, the Commission then in a landmark accomplishment, first published the list of full Professors who participated in the exercise in 2019.
He added that it was understood that this would be succeeded by a continuous process of updating the list of full Professors.
The acting executive secretary, however, questions the rationale behind recycling this stale 2019 news of an activity it initiated, conducted and laid to rest in the same year.
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