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  The National Universities Commission has decried what it described as the desperation of some academics to become professors. In a bulletin obtained by our correspondent on Monday, the NUC also noted that two high-powered committees had been set up to check the excesses in the system. According to the bulletin, the committees inaugurated by the commission’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, include the Committee on the Review of Submission on the Procedures, Criteria and Records of Professorial Promotion by some Non-Degree Awarding Institutions in Nigeria as well as the Committee on the Development of Guidelines for Mentoring New Universities. The bulletin read in part, “At the inauguration ceremony which was held simultaneously, the Executive Secretary told the Committee on the Review of Submissions on the Procedures, Criteria and Records of Professorial Promotion by some Non-Degree Awarding Institutions in Nigeria that NUC had found it as nauseating how some academic...