Federal Government says over 21,600 Nigerians are parading fake

certificates obtained from degree mills institutions in Benin Republic,

Togo and others.

The Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, who disclosed

this during a ministerial press briefing on his one year achievements

in the ministry, in Abuja said, 1,105 students are holding fake

certificates from Togo alone.

He said, the federal government in March set up an Inter-Ministerial

Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling, to probe the

activities of certificate racketeers, which exposed the activities of

fake degree mills in the Benin Republic, stressing that fake degrees

from Nigerian and foreign universities would be flushed out of the

system.

Speaking on the challenges of tertiary institutions in meeting their

needs as a result the high electricity tariffs, Mamman said President

Bola Tinubu had approved a long term solution of powering the

institutions through CNG, adding that in the last one year, the

ministry had been able to return about four million out-of-school

children back to school.

The minister disclosed that efforts are being made to meet the need

of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, to avert their planned

strike actions.