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The Federal Government has moved to tackle the issue of fake academic degrees in the country's education system with the establishment of an

The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, is scheduled to establish an inter-ministerial committee to address the activities of degree mills.

Worried by its latest discovery of illegal degrees from foreign universities, the Federal Government of Nigeria has constituted an eight-man

FG probes private varsities for alleged fake degrees; committee to assess facilities, funding, and accreditation.

The Federal Government has inaugurated an eight-man inter-ministerial committee to investigate the activities of private universities

Last week, we got a dose of what investigative journalism ought to be. Umar Audu, a promising young journalist, proved to be an outstanding student of his mentor, Ja’afar Ja’afar, an investigative journalist of the first order. Reporting for Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar’s online newspaper, Umar Audu went underground to bag a degree in Mass Communication from a university in the Benin Republic. It is a report worthy of the highest award in the land for investigative journalism.

The report literally set fire on the behind of Tahir Mamman, a Professor, Lawyer and Minister of Education.

Nigerians on social media have urged the Federal Government to address the issue of fake degrees in the country.

"There is a need to investigate all degrees from the Benin Republic, but this doesn't mean they are all not legitimate graduates. Some people earned their

Last week, we got a dose of what investigative journalism ought to be. Umar Audu, a promising young journalist, proved to be an outstanding student of his mentor, Ja’afar Ja’afar, an investigative journalist of the first order. Reporting for Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar’s online newspaper, Umar Audu went underground to bag a degree in Mass Communication