EXCLUSIVE: An-Nahada International University, Gusau Not Accredited, Illegal Institution – NUC
POLITICS DIGEST– A private University An-Nahda International University, Gusau in Zamfara State is not accredited by the National Universities Commission.
The University with Satellite Campus In Gusau has been operating for years and awarding students with degree certificates illegally.
This is coming after Nigerian government ban Tokumbo degrees Nigerians bagged from Benin Republic in 2018.
It would be recalled that in 2018, Daily Nigerian, an online paper published an investigative report of how Nigerians went to Benin Republic to bag a degree certificate in six months and maximum one year.
A situation that led the government to react by banning and ensure rigorous screening of students from such mushroom universities before being mobilized for the National Youth Service Scheme.
After realising the damage that report have caused to mushroom universities in Cotonou; they came to Nigeria and establish An-Nahada International University with Satellite Campus in Gusau, North- Western Nigeria.
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In a letter sighted by POLITICS DIGEST from the National University Commission, the regulatory agency of Nigerian Universities signed by Dr N.B Salisu, the Director for Academic Planning in the commission and addressed to the Director-General of National Youth Service Corps stated that An-Nahada International University, Gusau is an illegal Institution of learning.
The letter which read in parts:
” NYSC/DG/158/S21/VOL VII/298 dated 18th June 2020 in the above subject matter refers please
I’m directed to inform the Director-General NYSC that AN-NAHADA International University Gusau, Satelite Campus is not known to the National Universities Commission. The University is therefore operating as an illegal institution in Nigeria.
Consequently, certificates obtained from such institutions/Programmes will not be used for the purpose of employment, promotions, conversions and further studies. Also graduates of unapproved institutions/ programmes cannot be mobilized into the National Youth Service Scheme”.
