Civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo, have been sacked from the federal civil service.
The directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to 2024, the Punch reports.
According to the paper, the Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, confirmed the sack of the workers on Wednesday.
In August, the Federal Government announced that only eight universities had been accredited to award degrees to Nigerians in Togo and Benin Republic.
The decisive action from the Federal Government follows an investigative report by a Daily Nigerian journalist who acquired a degree from a university in Benin Republic in two months and used it to participate in the National Youth Service Corps scheme.
Following the report, the government banned the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo.
The Federal Government also set up an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling to probe the activities of certificate racketeers.
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