Novelty Poly Urges NBTE To Close 4 Illegal Campuses

Governing Board of Novelty Polytechnic, Kishi, Oyo State has cried out over alleged activities of fraudsters, who run illegal satellite campuses in four cities in the name of the institution.

To redeem the integrity of the polytechnic and end the continued existence of the illegal campuses, the board has appealed to the National Board  for Technical Education (NBTE), Kaduna to shut down the four illegal satellite campuses without further delay.

The board declared that there was no time the board or management of the polytechnic applied to the NBTE to open such campuses knowing that both the federal government and the NBTE as the regulator of technical education in Nigeria do not allow the existence and operations of such centres.

The four disputed and controversial satellite campuses are located in Ibadan, Oyo State, Lagos, Abuja and Bida in Niger State.

At a press conference in Abuja at the weekend, a member of the governing board of the institution, Prince Lanre Ogundipe, maintained that Novelty Polytechnic, Kushi has no satellite campuses anywhere in the world.

He said that the three-year-old polytechnic does not have students outside  its main campus in Kishi and equally does not affiliate any school or authorise any individual or body corporate to do so on its behalf.

Ogundipe said apart from the eight departments duly accredited by  NBTE for its over 400 students, it does not run  any illegal programme nor admit students into them.

Ogundipe said the polytechnic, which took off three years with 83 students, admits students for only the Ordinary National Diploma (OND), for the duly accredited courses.

The clarification came against the backdrop of the September 2023 warning by the NBTE to close down Novelty Polytechnic for the alleged infractions.