Julius Okojie, has vowed to report vice-chancellors of universities
running illegal and unaccredited courses to the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Commission for prosecution.
He said this on Monday at a press briefing in Abuja.
Besides, he noted that intellectual decay had set into the university
system due to politics of appointment of heads of departments and the
effect of the just-suspended strike by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, which made lecturers to stay off duty for almost six
months.
He said, "We (NUC) are amazed about the number of vice-chancellors
that visit ICPC everyday.
"All these unapproved courses that some universities are running, the
vice-chancellors are in trouble because ICPC and NUC are not going to
take it. We have to address the issue – including misapplication of
fund for projects."
Describing the situation as "academic corruption", Okojie said the
commission had started sensitising universities on what constitutes
violation of law with a pilot study already ongoing in a few
universities.
" There is what we call academic corruption. If you employ students
that are not supposed to be in the system, it is corruption," he
added.
Okojie said NUC would provide information on universities running
illegal courses to the ICPC.
The NUC boss recalled that seven Nigerian universities were among the
15 that won the regional competition for African Centres of
Excellence.
He said an additional three had been included in the list of winners
to increase it to 10 from Nigeria that will get $8 million grant each
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