open university shuts down five illegal study centers in Lagos

The National Open University of Nigeria has uncovered the conclusion of five illicit study focuses in different parts of Lagos State.

The Media and Information executive of the organization, Malam Ibrahim Sheme made the revelation today, September 2, clarifying that the choice was taken because of reports from concerned subjects.

He included that NOUN has now shaped a board of trustees whose duty is to screen the exercises at its study focuses across the nation.

"We will keep on clamping down on the exercises of such focuses, whose fundamental point is to swindle Nigerians of their well deserved wages, given the monetary circumstance in the nation today.

"We just went by Lagos to screen our focuses and their operations and found five unlawful study focuses working there.

"Any individual who needs to run a study focus must experience the due procedure by formally enlisting with the organization, subject to meeting all the set down criteria.

"It is not by doing it illicitly or by method for misrepresentation. The individuals who talk about with NOUN for such object are offered authorization to do that, in the wake of meeting the endorsed necessities."

Every one of those found to have been behind the running of the unlawful study focuses for the sake of the establishment would confront lawful activity.

Sheme likewise denounced coordinated efforts with the proprietors of some real schools inside the state for permitting administrators of these illicit focuses to publicize such in their establishments. Consequently, school proprietors would likewise be arraigned close by the administrators, as Sheme focused on that lack of awareness of the law is never a reason.

"These proprietors of such schools who permitted the focuses to be refered to in their school premises will likewise confront sanctions since they should have made their discoveries.

"Thing's real order is to offer access to instruction to all Nigerians who wish quality training, regardless of age or economic wellbeing.

"We will, subsequently, not permit anybody or gathering of people to invade that command and that is the reason we will keep on monitoring the niches and corners of the nation to hold these individuals under control."

He guaranteed that the organization will accomplish more to sharpen the general population concerning the exercises of the unlawful focuses and their administrators while grabbing the chance to beseech the overall population to be vigilant for such focuses and to convey it to the establishment's consideration.