President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has said that corruption in the country's universities has reached an alarming level.
Speaking during a conference on ways to reduce corruption in government departments, the president said he was aware that students in universities use different words to describe different types of corruption.
-various bribes in their universities. He said: "There is paying money to buy grades or to have sex to give grades or to have sex to correct grades and to steal exams and so on."
Buhari, who did not give any figures, indicated that the anti-corruption commission, ICPC, is investigating and prosecuting people who have been accused of committing adultery as a form of defamation of office in public schools.
In 2019, exposed sexual harassment in two universities in Nigeria and Ghana during an underground investigation titled "sex for grades".