An illegal college of education which had been operating for two years without the involvement of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) with the name Lakwanjang College of Education and Entrepreneurship, Kaltungo, Gombe State has been shut down by National Commission For Colleges of Education.
In a statement made on behalf of the commission by the Public Relations Officer, Mallam Garba Sulieman on Thursday in Abuja stated as follows
“The attention of NCCE had earlier been drawn to unconfirmed information that an institution existed in Kaltungo, illegally running NCE programme. The management of NCCE consequently put up a team to investigate the institution based on the information obtained.
“On Friday, 22nd January, 2016, the team from NCCE led by the executive secretary of the commission, Professor Monday Joshua including heads of academic programmes department and other senior staff of the commission, visited the college on facts finding.
“The college has operated illegally, purportedly training NCE teachers for the past two academic sessions, without recourse to the extant laws that should cover its establishment and operation.
“The said Lakwanjang College of Education and Entrepreneurship, Kaltungo, is hereby closed down with immediate effect. The students and parents of the said college and the general public are to note that the NCE programmes purportedly run in the College have never been accredited and the College had never obtained approval to run the programmes.
Statement added that “Any certificates that will arise from such illegal programmes will not be recognised in Nigeria. This action is taken based on the mandate of NCCE, and also to save teacher education in Nigeria from further ridicule,”
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