Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the inauguration of the software in Abuja on Tuesday said that plagiarism was a form of corruption.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a homegrown ‘Plagiarism Detection Software Code’ called EagleScan to enhance the integrity of higher institutions.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the inauguration of the software in Abuja said that plagiarism was a form of corruption.
The Vice President said that the initiative was part of the core mandates of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration that announced the zero tolerance for plagiarism.
According to him, the Federal Government is fully committed to support all initiatives that will continue to build and enhance the integrity of higher institutions.
Speaking at the occasion, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, while lauding the indigenous anti-plagiarism software, said it would facilitate the desired quality expected in institutions of higher learning.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abubakar Rasheed, emphasised the need to institutionalise an anti-plagiarism policy in all higher institutions.
Rasheed said that doing this would encompass various aspects of Plagiarism adding that having the software is one aspect of the battle against plagiarism.
Universities must take concrete steps to institutionalise anti-plagiarism policy that forbids all aspects of the intellectual theft.
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