Nigeria, March 7 -- An investigation panel set up by Nigeria's Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has praised the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Simon Ortuanya, and a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Oguejiofor Ujam, for exposing the then-Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji's certificate forgery.

The seven-member investigative panel was constituted on 23 November 2025 in response to Mr Nnaji's petition to the education minister, following a painstaking two-year investigation published by PREMIUM TIMES earlier in October last year, which revealed that the then-minister forged his university degree and NYSC certificates.

The panel submitted its investigative report to t...