They need to do first to certificates from Niger, Chad, Gabon and Cameroon. Some people want to punish Togo and Benin for not rolling over during the last coup. WAKE UP Yoruba, don't let them target your cousins across the border, these are some wing's feathers when Nigeria goes down. E je k'ori yin pe.

Evidently there are lots of emotion’s attached to this developments.

I hope you all try to view this with a clear and conscious mindset. I urge you to fight sentiments and emotions on this topic.

1. There is no way government should stand idle and allow unqualified, individuals take the vacancies of those who truly merit it.

2. Many students or one could say a fair number of these certificates were purchased rather than achieved. So yes there are a good number of people out there who truly do not merit their qualifications.

3. Due diligence have been mentioned a lot regarding this topic. Which in a way limits the level in which ignorance would be used as an excuse for those who genuinely entered into this situations.

That being said let me address and give my opinion and response to these points mentioned above. Because there are two sides to every story. The government through the data obtained by efforts of investigative journalism. 9&6 are the same shape but differ in meaning judging from the angle one sees them through.

1. What about the ministry of educations accountability for allowing these certificates go through and carry water in the first place. Anyone who wants to go to uni legit or back door. The first thing they worry about is the eligibility status of such institutions in the eyes of government. The ministry of education is the government body responsible for sensitizing and defining which is which in the first place.

So In this case evidently the prerequisite is government accreditation, which until the end of 2023. There were no warnings or scrutiny done by the ministry of education, to sensitize the public on the status of these institutions. So eligibility means government approval which the ministry of education granted Benin/Togo universities an “accredited status”. And truly who would really care about checking other countries eligibility which I will also talk about in (3), when most of these people go to these schools to gain employability in Nigeria and not Benin/Togo. When your country has given you the green light to go then why stop?

2. There is also the option of a reciprocal investigation, on how “genuine” of some or of the same institution in which the data of ineligibility sprouted from in the first place. I say this because bare in mind the mission was to prove the notions and rumors right which he did and no denial. But the objective of the investigation was more of to discredit the institutions there. I believe if a same documentary or investigation in like manner was done, but this time with the objective to prove the credibility of this institutions, I believe this perspective wouldn’t be as deep as this or it may even be worse, but we’ll never know until it happens. And that to be honest wouldn’t be hard to achieve by making those ones who didn’t have malicious or fraudulent, should give an account or a guide on their individual process just as the journalist did his own guide through is own process in te course of his investigations.

3. Due diligence, this may have many similarities with number (1) listed above.

Hop on google or any preffered search engine of your choice, and search for list of accredited schools in Benin republic. You will see a catalog of list backed up with mainstream media publishes and also from websites of government owned domains from Nigeria and Benin republic. You will find a list of schools which are tagged as “accredited or government approved” I repeat “even in government owned domains of both countries. If you can open naira land it means you can open google so just try it. That being said, imagine one going on the web to search accredited universities because of one situation or another. Genuine or Fraudulent, but in this hypothesis. A genuine one. So after looking all this up online, goes to the ministry of education for more clarity and affirmation. Getting there he/she identified his or her institution of interest. Then it doesn’t stop there, he or she then goes to the NYSC platform to check the list of accredited universities in Benin or Togo. And still find his/her institute of interest in the list. With full affirmation from ministry of education or Nysc what more than this could one honestly and sincerely require more to be called due diligence. Because the target is to work in Nigeria and not these countries. So for ministry of education or nysc to approved them for evaluation and mobilization leaves a genuine mind with the thought that it is up to standard or meets the requirements.

So please let’s be careful what we really support in this country. Obviously and understandably Nigeria applauds thorough and harsh judgements just because of the nature of the verdict. Yes corruption is suffocating us but an eye for an eye makes the world blind.

Because I plead to any reader not to attach emotions. I’ll limit mentions of psychological distress and repercussions of an unfairly judged or treated “HUMAN BEING”. Because next could be anything. But as much as we want justice, let the number of the unjustly treated in the cause of justice triple in the percentage of unjustly treated. Forgive the not too constructive nature. But I hope we get the point.

Thank you

Let’s be careful what we encourage in this country.

Why is no one asking what were the contents in the ministers enquiry to the education ministry in these countries.

If not for the fact that we as Nigerians do not value authenticity over preferential verdict.

okay let us not use our brains and ask for data let us just repeat the claims.

A whole country only has 3 universities and no private appproved universities, not even one. The other has 5. For a country that register high influx of Nigerians for trade and other endeavors. And we don’t care about seeing detailed contents towards that enquiry and the precise and accurate response based on the enquiry. E just sweet to hear cz they are banning them so it’s celebrated because for the unemployed it means less competition.

Truth is original and does not have photocopy. It’s disheartening when I see comments of people celebrating this development because Cotonou students were identified as foreign students in camp. Trust this is the only qualms some people have with it o.

But dear youths, the government knows that this one fit sweet una belle for those who couldn’t go there, or those who are graduates and jobless, those who want less competition etc. we know of federal universities that dish out certificate cz one government pikin dey chill for state house. How many bribery cases and sex payments for grades. But you don’t find them revoking the certificates in which these cases are recorded o. But the excuse is start from somewhere. Now there is no problem where to start has been chosen. We can start with the Cotonou cases, but the question is how we’ll start.

Credibility in data and analysis of the context of information. It’s not hard, show us the process for the workings.

If a valor box is snatched in a particular local government during election. Does that mean you nullify and void every other vote in that state or geo political region.

There are analysis that should be presented to justify actions. This is not a dictatorship, if truly it’s democracy there is a process for these things. Let us be careful what we encourage in this country because tomorrow it may come back and bite you.

Today it is the Benin people and their certificates. If another government with an agenda comes which could be personal vendetta towards certain individuals that could fall under a certain blanket, use the popularity of his judgement or verdict to instigate policies that really isn’t moving anything forward but rather backward.

We came out from a government with an agenda to punish some people. It turned out to be a situation where one is focused on burning his neighbors house not realizing that the smoke he is seeing is not only burning his neighbors house but his own too as well.

Let them bring credible data and no qualms. Let them televise the process in which the good ones follow and make them public.

Me you and everybody knows this verdict won’t be the same. Trust me. Anyway let them fish out the ones that they have agenda for achieve their aim and leave the innocent ones alone.

The ones that they are using their powers through policies to oppress God will fight their battle for them or maybe they deserve it who knows. But Abeg for the innocent ones. Abeg make we no support bad thing Abeg. Bad thing na bad thing forget.

As if they accredited these universities under duress in the first place. Them dey try comot hand to look good. Who is fooling who. When the internet never forgets. The problem is that they think we are all dumb and painfully the lot of us are encouraging that idea.

Abeg make God help us for this country. 😂