NUC cancels diploma program in universities

– Students studying for diploma in Nigerian universities may have to stop the program soon

– NBTE representative says the announcement on when to end the programme would be made in the coming weeks

– The NUC representative also clarified rumours making rounds about the conversion of YABATECH, KADPOLY

The federal government is yet to convert Yaba College of Technology and Kaduna polytechnic to universities, The Nation reports.

According to Dr Masaudu Kazaure, the executive secretary of the National Board of Technical Education (NBTE), the federal government is yet to make the switch to city universities as many Nigerians have been expecting.

This announcement is coming barely 24 hours after it was announced some of the unaccredited courses in Nigerian universities, telling students who had been studying them that they will not be certified for attending classes for those courses in their various institutions.

In furtherance to this, the National Universities Commission (NUC) on Tuesday, August 10, announced that universities in Nigeria would soon end diploma programmes run at undergraduate level.


Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, the executive secretary of NUC, made this disclosure in Abuja, when Kazaure paid him a visit in his office.

“We are going to formally put a deadline on it, that there should be no diploma again to be run by universities, let us allow those that are statutory, allowed to run diploma programmes, the polytechnics, to continue with them,” Professor Rasheed was quoted to have said.

He also added that the commission would work with the NBTE in order to get a blueprint which will ensure that polytechnics would soon start running degree programmes independently, the way it happens in other countries.

In a related development, students who seek to study law at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) may have to think twice following a new order by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

Daily Post reports that the executive secretary of the commission, Professor Julius Okojie, informed newsmen during an interactive session on Thurdsay, July 16, that the new development would continue that way until some issues with the Council on Legal Education (CLE) have been resolved.

It was gathered that the CLE has refused to allow the institution’s law graduates get into the Nigerian Law School, with the claim that the teaching and study of law cannot be done by correspondence.