The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has clampdown on Lakwanjang College of Education and Entrepreneurship, Kaltungo, Gombe State, alleged to have been operating illegally in the state for over two years.

A statement made available to LEADERSHIP on Thursday in Abuja by the Public Relations Officer, NCCE,Mallam Garba Sulieman, said the executive secretary of the commission, Prof Monday Joshua, led a crack team from the NCCE Headquarters, Abuja to raid the institution.

He said the college was operating from a ramshackle primary school in Gombe State while the students informed that the college conducts classes only in the evenings in the premises of a primary school at the Nasarawa area of Kaltungo town.

It was further gathered that the College claimed through advertisement that it offers NCE programmes in Primary Education Studies, Biology, Islamic Religion studies, Christian Religion Studies, Hausa Language, Mathematics, Computer studies, Business Education, Economics, Social Studies, Arabic Medium and NCE in English.

According to him, information got to the management of the commission that an institution existed in Kaltungo, running Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) illegally and had advertised for and admitted unsuspecting students for two academic sessions without any involvement of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB).

He warned the students of the College that any certificates obtained from the illegal programmes would not be recognized in Nigeria.

According to the statement, the executive secretary, NCCE, ordered immediate shutdown of the College for alleged breach of the laws for the establishment of Colleges of Education in Nigeria as contained in the Act establishing the commission.

Part of the statement read, “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, 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.

“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,” the statement added.

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