The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has discovered and closed 22 illegal colleges of education operating in Nigeria.
This action came as part of a nationwide clampdown on unapproved institutions, which the commission highlighted among its recent achievements. According to the NCCE, the agency not only shut down the illegal colleges but also carried out staff audits and financial monitoring across all 21 federal colleges of education.
President Bola Tinubu had earlier directed the NCCE, alongside the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), to eliminate illegal higher institutions from the country’s education system. Speaking through Rakiya Ilyasu, the Director of University Education at the Federal Ministry of Education, during the 14th convocation of the National Open University of Nigeria in Abuja, the President condemned “certificate mills” that undermine the credibility of the education sector.
He stressed that the government is committed to strengthening collaboration among education agencies to enhance efficiency and uphold standards. Tinubu added that bodies such as the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), NUC, NBTE, and NCCE are working together to safeguard academic integrity, combat forgery, and ensure that unaccredited institutions—both locally and abroad—have no place in Nigeria’s education system.
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