Nigeria, March 11 -- The management of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State has sanctioned the university's Deputy Registrar and Unit Head of Students' Records and Institutional Research, I.A.S. Onyeador, for issuing a document which falsely claimed that the then-Minister of Innovation, Science & Technology, Uche Nnaji, graduated from the institution.

Details of the sanctions against the university officials were contained in a report by an investigative panel set up by the Nigeria's Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa.

The seven-member investigative panel was constituted on 23 November 2025 in response to Mr Nnaji's petition to the education minister over his certificate forgery scandal after PREMIUM TIMES published an...