NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY MOVE TO TACKLE PLAGIARISM

Federal universities have partnered with a UK information technology firm for the deployment of plagiarism detection software in all federal universities, reports the News Agency of Nigeria.

Dayo Duyile, the head of the mass communication department at Joseph Ayo Babalola University, last week lauded the move by the Committee of Vice-chancellors to intensify the fight against plagiarism. Duyile said that the issue of plagiarism was a threat to the development of university education. Nigeria partnered with international bodies to control corruption and the CVC’s action was a “good development”, he said.

Ademola Onifade, director of the Centre for Environment and Science Education at Lagos State University, also welcomed the move. He said that everyone in the education sector was working hard to tackle the fraudulent practice of plagiarism, which he believed was not too enormous for quality assurance departments of universities to handle.