A former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, has attributed the rush among Nigerians to obtain fake foreign degrees to the nation’s ‘endemic’ corruption.
Adeniran disclosed this while speaking in an interview published by Saturday PUNCH, stating that the nation has become a “certificate-hunting country.”
This comes on the heels of an investigative report by an undercover reporter, Umar Audu, documenting how he bagged a degree within six weeks of being admitted into the Ecole Superieure de Gestion et de Technologies, Cotonou, Benin Republic. and also served as a corps member in the National Youth Service Corps with the certificate obtained.
Reacting to the report, the former education minister noted that foreign universities are capitalising on the corruption in Nigeria.
“It is the corruption in Nigeria that those people are keying into because they know that we operate a very corrupt system, so they are just keying into it and taking…