All the programmes in the college of science, which are due for accreditation, had all been accredited. The programmes we are now working for their accreditation are the programmes in the college of technology, which, as against the science programmes, which are four- year degree programmes, four years in terms of length of residency of the students – the engineering programmes, we are working towards their accreditation.

This will shock you. It is the report of Sunday Vanguard’s painstaking investigation with sources inside Aso Rock Presidential Villa, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, the Petroleum Equalization Fund, PSF, and the Petroleum Support Fund, PSF, just to mention a few.

In a way, yes. This is evident in the panels set up to probe the activities of fuel marketers and also the Presidency’s vow to deal with the culprits. But government can do a lot more to instil transparency in the system. We must stop the barefaced stealing that is going on in the oil sector.

For many Nigerians as well as the global investment community, this is a welcome development – although nobody accustomed to the way this particular government works will heave a sigh of relief yet. The reasons are not hard to discover and the Minister provided some reasons for skepticism.

Nigerians especially, the teeming graduates who are roaming the streets in search of good jobs have reacted to the recent statement by the minister for finance, Dr Okonjo Iweala that our graduates are not employable. Some of them who spoke angrily to Saturday Vanguard said that it is very wrong for her to make such a pronouncement.