FG orders immediate shut down of 66 Universities, 68 Polytechnics

TFG orders immediate shut down of 66 Universities, 68 Polytechnics

The minister of education , Adamu Adamu, says there will be a crackdown on some illegal higher universities, polytechnics, monotechnics and specialised technical and vocational institutions in the country.
_Adamu describes the upsurge in illegal higher institutions especially, universities, as a source of embarrassment to the federal government
_The minister says the promoters of such institutions will immediately be apprehended and prosecuted by the relevant authorities.

Dozens of illegal higher institutions, including 66 universities and 68 polytechnics are to be shutdown by the federal government in a new crackdown.
The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, speaking at a media conference in Abuja, said the crackdown will affect some illegal higher universities, polytechnics, monotechnics, specialised technical and vocational institutions, in the country, Daily Trust reports.
Adamu described the upsurge of illegal higher institutions especially, universities, as a source of embarrassment to the federal government.

He urged that the National Universities Commission(NUC), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), to work with relevant security agencies to immediately crackdown hard on all illegal tertiary institutions within their jurisdictions.
“Promoters of such institutions should immediately be apprehended and prosecuted. Let me warn those promoting illegal institutions that the days of treating promoters of such institutions with kid gloves are over. Anyone caught in the act will be severely punished,” the minister warned.

Adamu noted that most of the unapproved higher institutions usually enlist the services of unqualified and unrecognized personnel.
He said the unrecognised higher institutions included those illegal institutions based in Nigeria and those that were on-line in unapproved linkages and affiliations with substandard foreign institutions that have no accreditation or recognition of regulatory bodies either in Nigeria or their home countries.
“They have no admission quota, they run unaccredited courses with practically no standards. Their products are half baked and unemployable,” he said.

Adamu said greed and endemic corruption were some of the major factors responsible for the recent upsurge in the number of illegal providers of degree-awarding institutions in the country.
He noted that the illegal institutions were also exploiting the insufficient access of many qualified candidates who sit for the yearly Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) organised by Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Meanwhile, the federal government has said that university students may soon return to their various higher institutions as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) could call of its strike in the week starting from Monday, January 28.
The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, speaking with journalists after a press conference on Friday, January 25, said there was a possibility of university lecturers ending their strike soon.
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But the striking lecturers have insisted they will only return to work when their demands are met by the federal government.