Some civil servants in the employ of the federal parading degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo, have been dismissed from service.
Recall that degrees from the two Francophone countries fall into disrepute after a Nigerian investigative journalist on a journalistic mission obtained a degree from university in Benin Republic in two months and used it to participate in the National Youth Service Corps scheme.
The revelation made the Nigerian government banned the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo, and later announced that only eight universities had been accredited to award degrees to Nigerians in Togo and Benin Republic.
Going by Punchng some workers with some ministries, departments and agencies with degrees from institutions from the two countries outside those accredited have been laid off.
“There was a letter from the SGF cabinet affairs directing all ministries, departments and agencies of government to identify and terminate the appointments of workers employed with certificates obtained from the private universities in the Republic of Benin and Togo from 2017 to date.
“The decision is part of the recommendations of the committee set up to investigate the certificates of people who graduated from the universities,” the publication quoted an unnamed government officials with knowledge of the dismissal as saying.
