The National Universities Commission has issued fresh guidelines regulating the award and use of honorary doctorate degrees in Nigeria. It cited what it described as the increasing incidence of indiscriminate conferment and misuse of such honours within the Nigerian University System, reports The PUNCH. In a public notice released on its offic...
The federal government, through the National Universities Commission (NUC), has placed a ban on the award of honorary doctorate degrees to serving public officials. The Commission said the decision followed the alleged misuse of such degrees, reports The Nation. The Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Abdullahi Ribadu, announced the ban toda...
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