The Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education
(NBTE), Dr. Mas’udu Kazaure, announced on Monday that the board has closed no
fewer than 50 illegal polytechnics and monotechnics operating without
government’s approval across the country.
Speaking newsmen Dr. Mas’udu state in Kaduna at a meeting between
the Board and the national leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists
said the institutions affected were operating in contravention of the Basic
Minimum Academic Standards as prescribed by law and have been running ND and
HND programmes in several satellite campuses across the country.
Meanwhile the NBTE boss further explained that the shut schools lacked
the required facilities to run satellite campuses. Kazaure, who was silent on
the names of the shut institutions, asserted that they were established to
defraud innocent Nigerians, adding that they were concentrated in the
North-Central Zone, especially in Benue State.
The NBTE Executive Secretary, who acknowledged the significant role
played by Journalists, said the board would not hesitate to do the needful and
ensure that the academic outfit, which is committed to training and retraining
journalists, is duly accredited in order for journalists to be more
professionally qualified, efficient in the discharge of their duties and alert.
He said NBTE would soon accredit courses of the International Institute
of Journalism, IIJ, owned by the NUJ adding that Journalists are partners in
progress in terms of information gathering and dissemination, while soliciting
for more partnership between the NBTE and the NUJ in that regards.
Dr Kazaure disclosed that the board has about 435 institutions under
its supervision with several other institutions seeking accreditation.
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