By Austin Oboh
The Federal Government appears to have been recently startled out of a long slumber that had stretched on for years while more and more Nigerians discovered hassle-free means of acquiring diploma and degree certificates with the cooperation of our West African neighbouurs.
And in other
cases, certificate mills sprouted at street corners, right under the watch of
monitoring authorities, to feed the Nigerian crave for certificates (not
learning). Tuesday announcement by the Federal Ministry of Education suspending
the accreditation or recognition of certificates from some West African
countries, especially Togo and Benin Republic, may have come like a knee-jerk
reaction but it was a rousing up prompted by an embarrassing expose’ from a
journalist who went as far as cracking his way through the NYSC with his
arranged documents. The NYSC secretariat, with all its checks erected to stop
impostors in their tracks, could not stop him. Again, state authorities were
caught napping.
