Certificate Scandal: Finalist Entered Unilag With Primary 6

Final year student of the University of Lagos gained admission into the institution with only a primary six certificate; it was gather in Lagos yesterday. Police described him as a student of Mass communications at the university’s school of social studies.

Top police source said yesterday that detectives discovered that the student had ‘consistently passed” his sessional examination over the years despite his remarkable low education background.

The allege scandal was unearthed by detectives from Alagbon close, ikoyi, Lagos, who conducted another round of probe into the entrance qualifications of students at the university.

The latest swoop was necessitated by disclosure of “sophisticated scheme’ by which some students in Nigeria universities falsified their entrance educations.

The two questions being asked by the police yesterday were “How the student was able to pass his examinations and why did the staff at the university’s admissions office fail to discover his poor entry qualification?”

Because of this, competent police source said yesterday, that the institution’s staffs concerned with admission from senior assistant registrars downward are to answer question from detectives.

‘We are turning our mind to the fact that well-placed university staff registered students without meticulously ensuring that such students possessed the requisite qualifications,” a detective chief said.

The coordinator of the police probe into widespread certificates racket paid tribute to the admissions office of the university of ife which, he said, use “sophisticated equipment, including magnifying glasses,’ to process entrance papers.

He disclosed that detectives who are now on the, field had been briefed on what to look for in the current probe in view of latest disclosure of students tricks.

Meanwhile, the daily times gathered yesterday that one of the four Ahmadu Bello University students allegedly arrested at Ijebu-Ode after escaping police probe had been escorted to Zaria to face detective’s interrogation.