In a major operation, the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has identified and shut down 22 illegal Colleges of Education operating across the country.
The crackdown was part of the commission’s efforts to cleanse the sector of illegitimate institutions.
The NCCE also said it has conducted personnel and financial audits in all 21 federally approved Colleges of Education.
This action directly follows a recent directive from President Bola Tinubu, who ordered regulatory bodies to eliminate “certificate millers” that are undermining the integrity of Nigeria’s education system.
Speaking at a convocation ceremony, the President emphasized that his administration is committed to strengthening the education sector and ensuring that forgery and unrecognized institutions have no place within it.
He confirmed that agencies including the NCCE, the National Universities Commission (NUC), and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) are now working in alignment to weed out these illegal operations and protect the quality and credibility of Nigerian academic qualifications.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
