The worsening economic and moral fortunes in the country has been described as the bane of academic integrity in the universities.

A don, Prof Oka Obono of Department of of Scoiology, University of Ibadan (UI), stated this while delivering a paper: “The state of academic integrity in Nigeria today”, at the 66th Interdisciplinary research discourse of the Postgraduate School,  U.I.

Obono said: “Academic integrity has been declining with Nigeria’s worsening economic and moral fortunes. As such, high integrity and technical effectiveness profile has become an issue of growing national, industrial, global and academic importance. At the moment, few universities have established systematic processes for managing the decay and reversing the decline.

“In the face of intensified polarisation of church and state, academia – the median point on the continuum – will remain vulnerable to the decline in integrity observed in secular society. Measures therefore need to be taken to ensure the knowledge being produced and transmitted is trustworthy.”