•Prof Ishaya The Vice Chancellor of University of Jos Professor Tanko Ishaya, has announced that between 2021 to date, 97 academic Staff have been promoted to become Professors at the University. “97 academic staff of the institution were promoted to the rank of professorship till date,” Ishaya stressed. The Vice Chancellor stated his while ma...
•Nigerian professors detained in Cameroon The prolonged detention of several Nigerian professors by the Cameroon government for the past five years has sparked outrage. The professors were arrested in Abuja on January 5, 2018, by security agents and later repatriated to Cameroon, tried by a military tribunal, and sentenced to life imprisonment...
•Twin professors Stories of identical twins traversing and triumphing in life may be common, but the story of Professors Hassan and Hussain is strikingly different, amazing and unprecedented, to many Nigerians. The identical twins, who were raised in Kaduna State, have always done things together from childhood till now that they are professor...
•NUC headquarters, Abuja The media space has been agog with news of a purported list of fake professors currently in some federal, state and private universities nationwide. The development followed the recent investigative report by a reporter with the Daily Nigerian Newspaper which exposed the activities of degree mills in Benin Republic and...
The National Universities Commission (NUC), has denounced the list of fake professors in some Nigerian universities being circulated in the media. Chris Maiyaki, NUC Acting Executive Secretary, described the list as ‘fake, unfounded, untrue and a figment of the imagination of the author(s)’. The list, he explained, was initially published by t...
The management of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State, those of Covenant University at Ota in Ogun State and the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) in Kwara State have debunked reports that the National Universities Commission (NUC) allegedly exposed fake professors in their institutions. In a statement by its acting Public Rela...
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