The Examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are now writing Nigeria seeking to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates looking for admissions into tertiary institutions in their countries.
This was contained in a document made available to reporters by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for the 2024 policy meeting.
In the document, JAMB stated that it would not manipulate the records of any students, stressing the need to protect Nigeria’s tertiary education from disgrace.
This decision was also as a result of the Federal Government’s decision to suspend the verification of degree certificates from Uganda, Kenya, Benin Republic, Togo and some other countries over allegations of certificate racketeering.
Note that the Federal Government, in March, set up an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling to investigate the activities of certificate racketeers following an investigative report published by Daily Nigerian which exposed the activities of fake degree mills in the Benin Republic.
Umar Audu, the Daily Nigerian reporter revealed how he obtained a degree within six weeks and even proceeded to embark on mandatory youth service under the National Youth Service Corps scheme back in Nigeria.
The investigative report, which exposed the illegalities happening in some tertiary institutions in the West African countries, further led to the Nigerian government putting a ban on the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from Benin Republic and Togo.
