As a fall out of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that was held on Wednesday the 6th of June 2018, the Nigerian Federal Government has announced a comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s tertiary education system. Effective immediately, Polytechnics in Nigeria will no more issue Higher National Diplomas (HND). They are however to continue and exhaust the award of HND only to the students currently admitted for the programmes.

Also, all the programmes currently being run by polytechnics, which are not technology-based, and which are about 70%, will be scrapped. Under the new rule, the polytechnics will now become campuses of the proximate universities with the Vice Chancellors of those universities appointing provosts..... (click the link below to CONTINUE reading: https://www.aksu360.com/2018/06/no-more-hnd-all-polytechnics-now-to.html)

why did it take them too long to do this