The Federal Government has rejected circulating reports that Nigeria has 2,000 universities and that about 100 professors have been exposed as fake, calling the claims fabricated misinformation designed to undermine confidence in the country’s university system.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Minister of Education Dr Tunji Alausa said the National Universities Commission (NUC) never made such declarations, never published any list of fake professors, and did not authenticate the names now spreading on social media.
The ministry described the reports as false, misleading and a distorted recycling of older information. It specifically linked the “100 fake professors” claim to a misrepresentation of a December 3, 2019 media report about an NUC exercise to verify the directory of full professors in Nigerian universities. That earlier report, the ministry stressed, did not contain the names currently being circulated, and the NUC has since disowned the purported list.
On the claim of 2,000 universities, the ministry stated that the NUC has never announced any such figure.
The government expressed concern that the repeated circulation of false information risks damaging the credibility of Nigerian universities and efforts to uphold standards in higher education. It urged media organisations, social media users and the public to verify information before sharing it, especially on matters of university recognition and academic qualifications, and advised Nigerians to rely on the NUC’s official channels for accurate details.
The ministry reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment to supporting the NUC in protecting academic integrity, strengthening quality assurance and safeguarding the international reputation of Nigeria’s university system.
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