Two
illegal universities have been sealed in Lagos by the Nigeria Universities
Commission (NUC).
The
institutions, Evangel University of America, Egan,Igando, and Clinton
University Study Centre, in Ojokoro, an outskirt of Lagos State.
According
to the team of the NUC officials that led the operation, the ‘schools’ are
unapproved private universities.
Unsuspecting
students were already seated for the day’s class sessions when the team of the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC), the
operators of the State Security Service (SSS), and NUC, got to the ‘colleges’.
The
proprietor and a bursar of one of the schools were arrested.
At the
Evangel Christian University of America, a four-bedroom flat on 2, Akinola
Street, Olufemi Estate, Egan, Igando, the enforcement team arrested Dr. Philip
Nnaji, the school bursar, a middle-aged man.
Nnaji
however feigned ignorance saying he was not aware that the institution was
operating illegally. He told the officials that to the best of his knowledge,
the institution runs as an affiliate campus of the parent university sited in
Illinois, United States of America(USA). He said the Nigerian campus only
awards diploma, degrees and post graduate degrees in Theology.
Many of
the students, who were shocked at the operations on their college, looked on in
amazement.
Some of them said that
they were told the school is approved by the NUC, and that was why they
enrolled there because regular universities continually denied them admission
opportunities.
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