The National Board for Technical Education NBTE, has requested security and anti-graft agencies to close down private Technical Vocational Education and Training TVET institutions operating without license.
Its Executive Secretary, Idris Bugaje, said this in a statement in Kaduna.
He said the move had become necessary to address proliferation of illegal private TVET schools across the country.
Bugaje said private institutions in Nigeria must be established in line with the provisions of National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions Amendment Act 2004.
He said that there had been proliferation of private Polytechnics, Colleges or Schools of Health Technology and similar Technical Vocational Education and Training institutions all over the country as institutions of higher education.
Bugaje said they were awarding certificates, diplomas and some even degree qualifications without Federal Government’s approval and operational licenses.
