The National Universities Commission have reinstated that degrees obtained online will not be accepted in Nigeria.The commission  further warned Nigeria students to stop patronising any online degree institution.

Speaking at a press conference, the NUC’s Public Relations officer, Ibrahim Yakasai, said that degrees obtained online are not accepted in the country.
“Nigeria will not recognize online degrees. Online degrees are not accepted in Nigeria at the moment,” he said.

Mr. Yakasai warned Nigerian students and parents against patronising Maryam Abacha American University in Niger Republic.

“We wish to restate that as the only quality assurance agency for universities in Nigeria, the NUC is maintaining its stand that degrees from Maryam  Abacha University will not be accepted in Nigeria” he said.

He noted that the Commission has been inundated with enquiries from some Nigerian students who had been offered admission to the university.
He said the concerned students were offered admissions on part-time basis with a graduation time of four semesters for programmes like Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science, Public Health among others.

Mr.Yakasai explained that in Nigeria the duration for a fulltime degree programme is not less than three years for direct entry and at least six years for part-time.
He said professional programmes in Science, Engineering and Health Sciences including Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science and Public Health are not offered on part-time basis in Nigeria.
He added that all part- time cross border education in Nigeria are not allowed.

Mr. Yakasai said the Maryam Abacha University admits Nigerian students who do not have the basic requirements to gain admission into the nation’s tertiary institutions in addition to running courses such as Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science on part-time basis which, according to him, is not acceptable. Mr. Yakasai said all countries are at liberty to accept any qualification they wish to.

Many Nigerians enroll annually in online schools based in the United States and the United Kingdom, and other countries.

Source: http://nigeriainfohub.com/online-degree-nuc-warns-nigeria-students-to-stop-patronising-online-degree-programs/

A word is enough for the wise

I do believe that NUC should stop looking at other university admission qualification requirements. If someone honestly wrote his WAEC examinations by himself, without the use of 'miracle centers', that child is better qualified than the ones in our local public university who have 6 O-level alpha passes that cannot read, write or comprehend what is taught in the university graduating with 2nd class upper degrees. That the person has not done well in WAEC OR GCE does not mean no chance of learning. It could simply mean that he refused to 'sort' and was frustrated, was not well during examinations, the exam was not well marked, or he was not adequately tutored for the exam or a thousand and one other reasons. Please assess the online graduate's performances post qualification. Some of these universities lectures do have virtual contact with their students, teaching student directly via webcam (skype) and are really teaching more effectively than our grade-A universities here at home. The natural feeling Nigerian will get from such declarations is not that the NUC OR ministry of education cares about Nigerians education (because they are practically not being felt standard-wise at home) but that they are witch-hunting the owners of the university or those who have escaped the Nigerian system. i hope NUC will give them a chance. or make Nigerian systems more accommodating.