EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a detailed, firsthand response to our recent editorial on academic standards. The author, a distinguished veteran journalist and former Managing Editor at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), argues that the practice of forcing doctoral students to write exams, combined with systemic bribery, is undermining the integrity of Nigerian academic laurels.
I must express my complete agreement with your recent editorial: there is indeed something profoundly wrong with the way academic laurels, even merited ones, are conferred in Nigeria.
