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The acting Dean of the Faculty of Education, Sokoto State University calls on the president to beam his search light on corruption in education for the purpose of a general overhaul, following his interest in the education sector demonstrated through his second-to-none budgetary provisions. Both corruption and the corrupt practices involved in anti-corruption politics in Nigeria are traceable to the value-free instructional practices in Nigerian schools. It takes a fraudulent and morally bankrupt teacher just a class or lesson to destroy through his or her value-free instructional practices whatever gains are recorded in the on-going anti-corruption project.

Tertiary education unions in Nigeria are campaigning against a Treasury Single Account, implemented by the President to checkmate fraud and corruption in federal institutions and agencies, including in the education sector. The unions are worried about delayed salary payments and crippled grants from foreign partners for training and research. Tertiary education unions say that partners have threatened to withdraw financial support if the rigid new system is not made more flexible.

The Senate Committee on Education last week at the 2016 budget defence noted that it uncovered about N10 Billion hidden in the budget of parastatals by the Federal Ministry of Education. The Chairman of Senate Committee on Higher Education, has said that the N10 billion padding reported to be discovered in the education budget is meant for the Universal basic Education Commission and a typographical error from the office of the National Planning and Budget. The Senator said the issue was not with the ministry of education and that it had been resolved by the house and the senate and would be amended in the budget.

A number of students in a law school were caught cheating in exams; one student was found writing answers already copied in a smart watch. The student either programmed answer sheets or recorded course materials into the device. One practicing lawyer in Abuja said such attitude may have long-term effects on those involved; it had undermined the integrity and independence of the graduands and could possibly increase the likelihood of the abuse of the attorney-client privilege as well as create weak industry-wide anti-corruption standards.

The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has closed down the College of Education and Entrepreneurship Lakwanjang Kaltungo in Gombe State with over alleged illegal operation. This followed a press release from the NCCE Public Relations Officer stating, “The attention of the Commission had earlier been drawn to unconfirmed information that an institution existed in Kaltungo that was illegally running Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) programme.”

The Chairman of Executive Trainers Limited, has thrown his weight behind the President’s war on corruption in tertiary institutions, stating that it is the right step in the right direction. The Chairman, who is responsible in the past seven year for the training of Chancellors, Vice Chancellors, Provosts, Rectors and other top executives in Nigerian tertiary institutions, disclosed that whatever area the government needs his support to sanitise the system will be rendered.

The Chairman of Executive Trainers Limited (ETL), and an expert in higher education-related issues, has called on the Federal Government to take its anti-corruption campaign to campuses of the institution of higher learning in the country. At a media briefing in Lagos, he expressed serious concerns at the level of decay in the nation's tertiary institutions, stressing that as facilities where future Nigerian leaders were trained, there was need for sanity in the sector.