Covenant University Dismisses Claims Of Four “Fake” Professors In Institution
The Covenant University management has debunked a purported publication by the National Universities Commission [NUC] titled – “About 100 Fake Professors Uncovered In Nigerian Universities”, which has been making the rounds in some online publications, for the past few days.
A press release dated 6th of January, 2024 and titled Re: List of Fake Professors in Nigerian Universities stated that the university has no such names as listed in the said article in its payroll. The University in setting the records straight concerning the four fake Professors listed under Covenant University said it had never interacted with any of the four persons at any time, and in any capacity.
“We wish to put it on record that our recruitment exercise is rigorous. It is worthy to also note that our appointment and promotion criteria is of world class standard, hence, Covenant University would not appoint unqualified persons as professors.
“We wish, by this statement, to advise our esteemed stakeholders to kindly disregard this misinformation”, the management urged.
Following the recent report by Daily Nigerian Newspapers exposing the corruption in the award of degree certificates in Benin Republic and evaluation of the same by the Nigerian government, the report of fake professors in Nigerian universities was again being recirculated across social media platforms.
One of the reports that have been circulated widely on social media is by Channels Television, but the report by the television station attached no list as the one being circulated.
Various other media platforms such as Galaxy Television reported the development at the time but without giving specifics of any individual.
