The Federal Government says no fewer than 21,600 students are parading fake certificates obtained from degree mills institutions in Benin Republic, Togo and others.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this during a ministerial press briefing on his one year achievements in the ministry, in Abuja on Friday.
According to Mamman, 1,105 students are holding fake certificates from Togo alone.
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the federal government in March set up an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling, to probe the activities of certificate racketeers.
This followed an investigative report published by Daily Nigerian which exposed the activities of fake degree mills in the Benin Republic.
The Minister said that fake degrees from Nigerian and foreign universities would be flushed out of the system.
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