The Federal Government has announced a clampdown on universities regarding the misuse of honorary doctorate titles, specifically warning universities against conferring honorary doctorate degrees on serving political officeholders.

This is even as it revealed that some individuals procure the titles from institutions for as much as N50 million.

Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abdullahi Ribadu, stated this in Abuja on Friday while receiving the report of the Committee on the Misuse of Honorary Doctorate Degrees by Recipients in Nigeria.

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