NIGERIA HE AUTHORITIES RAISE CONCERN OVER QUALITY OF BENIN UNIVERSITIES USED BY NIGERIAN STUDENTS
December 1st, 2021
Concern is rising about the growth of low quality or even entirely bogus universities and colleges being established in Benin, as students from neighbouring Nigeria look for higher education courses outside their own country.
This demand is being fuelled by a shortage of higher education places in Nigeria, with some unscrupulous Benin-based operators taking advantage of naïve Nigerians in Africa’s most populous country.
According to Nigeria’s National Universities Commission (NUC) such rogue administrators are often Nigerians running private universities ...
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