The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Prof.
Julius Okojie, said on Tuesday that the two fake professors
apprehended by the commission, would soon be prosecuted.
Okojie, who made this known at an interactive session with newsmen in
Abuja, said the fake professors had been handed over to the Police.
He recalled that the fake professors were apprehended when they were
invited for interaction as a precondition to issuing licence for a
proposed Nigeria-British University, Lagos.
Okojie said, "They were invited to ascertain their level of commitment
to decide whether or not to issue application forms to them with
respect to the proposed university.
"This is part of the process leading to the award of licence to
operate a private university.
"During the course of the interaction, NUC sought to know how the
leader of the team became a professor and he gave conflicting
accounts.
"In one account, he claimed to have obtained his professorship from
the Obong University, Ntak, Akwa Ibom State, and studied at the
University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, up to PhD level.
"In another version, he claimed to have studied at the University of
Ewe, Ghana; on a third account, he claimed to be a staff of Covenant
University on Sabbatical Leave at Obong University."
The NUC boss said further enquiries from both universities revealed
that the claims were false.
Okojie decried the indiscriminate use of academic titles by
unqualified individuals, stressing that academic titles were not mere
appellations.
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