November 12, 2004
University in Nigeria Fights Degree Fraud
The University of Port Harcourt, in southeastern Nigeria, has revoked the degrees of 7,254 of its graduates in a major crackdown on academic fraud.
The vice chancellor of the university, Nimi Dimpka Briggs, said last month that those stripped of their degrees had either cheated on examinations or falsified their academic records, and that the fraud dated back to the class that entered in 1996.
He said higher education in Nigeria is rife with corruption and that many students had
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