The National Universities Commission (NUC) has denounced a purported list of fake professors in some Nigerian universities being circulated on social media.
The list contains about hundred names of people said to be “fake” professors in some Nigerian universities.
An electronic medium that first circulated the list had mentioned NUC as its source.
However, a statement from the Commission quoted Dr. Noel Abiodun Saliu, Deputy Executive Secretary in Charge of Academic Directorate, as saying that the list did not emanate from the NUC. He described the information as “mischievous and unfounded” and is the handiwork of mischief makers who are out to tarnish the image of the universities mentioned.
Saliu added that the publication was also meant to undermine the work of the NUC as the apex regulatory educational agency in Nigeria.
Also, reacting to the report, one of the universities mentioned in the list, Redeemers University, Ede Osun State, denied having fake professors as listed.
In a statement released on Saturday, Mr Adetunji Adeleye, Deputy Director, Corporate Affairs Directorate of the university described the list as an “abominable publication.”
Adeleye explained that the University has never had any of those professors listed as fake work in any capacity at any point in time in the institution.
“We hereby inform the general public that those ‘professors’ are not known to us and anyone who deals with them as individuals or group, does so at his or her own risk,” Adeleye stated.
He urged the general public to be wary of fake news being circulated on social media by mischief makers, and “always cross-check facts at the NUC, the regulatory body that oversees universities in Nigeria.”
