The Rector of Kaduna Business School (KBS), Dr. Dahiru Sani, has threatened to sue the National Universities Commission (NUC) if it doesn’t remove the school’s name from the list of 58 illegal universities released by the commission.
According to him, the NUC was wrong to include KBS in the list because the Business school is not a university and doesn’t run a degree programme.
The Rector addressed newsmen to react to the recent list released by the NUC, which included the Business School among the 58 ‘fake’ universities in the country.
He described the move as an attempt to discredit the good reputation of the school built over 20 years.
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He explained that the KBS management, since June 26, 2018, when NUC first released the list of illegal universities, wrote to the commission to inform them that the school did not offer any graduate or postgraduate degree programmes on its campus and was not involved with any other university for this purpose.
He said after about six months, they received a reply from NUC on December 12, 2018, signed by Director Academic Planning Dr. G.B Kumo.
As obtained by Daily Trust, the commission noted that the Business school would no longer be treated as an illegal institution.
According to the letter by the commission, said it was taking necessary steps to ensure that KBS would not be portrayed as an illegal entity as it does not run any degree programme.
“So, we are calling on the NUC to retract that list of fake universities and remove Kaduna Business School from that list with immediate effect. They (NUC) have never been here, and we have never had any meeting with them. So, till today, we don’t know why we continue to feature on their list of 58 fake universities.”
Asked if the NUC failed to remove them from the list, he said, “We will have to take legal redress; that will be our next step because NUC cannot contradict itself.”
He added that Kaduna Business School is not a university and that they never call themselves a university because the school comes under the regulatory ambit of the Nations Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and was issued a licence to operate as an Innovation Enterprise Institution by the Federal Ministry of Education on 9th, 2010, with the number;: FME/NBTE/IEI/10/002.
He said their academic programmes and diploma programmes were supported under the laws of Innovation Enterprise Institution.
He said they could have submitted themselves for NUC accreditation long before if they were interested in running a degree programme, but they were not interested in running any degree programme.
