NUC Raises Alarm Over Fraud in Varsities Snippet: ... Professor Peter Okebukola, NUC's executive secretary, said ... that the cases of fraud are mainly in the area of forgery of entry qualifications, transcripts, and degree certificates among others. Okebukola said his office was inundated daily with requests from American universities for confirmation of the genuineness of transcripts and certificates from Nigerian students seeking admissions abroad. The NUC Executive Secretary said findings from the universities' vice chancellors showed that in almost all the cases the certificates and transcripts were fake. He said the level of certificates and transcripts forgeries is disheartening as it had resulted in some students getting thrown out of schools. ...
