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The VC says OAU will invite the police if the investigation panel is unable to identify Prof Akindele and the female student in the viral audio clip.   The Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof Eyitope Ogunmodede has said the institution may have to involve the Police to verify the sex-for-mark scandal involving a lecturer, who allegedly demanded sex from a female student to increase her grade. The University Vice-Chancellor said this while speaking with a Punch correspondent in Oshogbo on Sunday, April 15, 2018. Since the telephone conversation between a man alleged to be Prof Richard Akindele , who lectures at the Department of Accountancy and the student went viral on Monday, April 9, 2018, the university has not been able to identify the student. Ogunmodede, however, said the case has not been reported to the Police, but to get to the root of the matter, the university might involve them if the university is unable to identify the two peopl...

The NUC boss says the 143 universities in Nigeria can only accommodate 500,000 students. The National University Commission has set up a committee to make university education accessible to more admission seekers in Nigeria. Prof.  Abubakar Rasheed, the Executive Secretary of the commission made this known at a stakeholders’ seminar organised by the University of Bradford and Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), in Abuja. Represented by Mr Chris Maiyaki , a Director in his office, Rasheed said that the NUC is worried about the growing population of the youths in Nigeria and the high demand for tertiary education. “Nigeria is projected to be the third largest population by the year 2050. The concern of NUC is how to educate this number of population when the time comes,” he said. “The NUC just commissioned a committee headed by Prof. Peter Okebukola to bring out a blueprint that will help the country to survive the population. “As you kn...