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Two kinds of story, both first-person and both checked by our team: scam stories — how it started, what was promised, what it cost — and student stories from verified students already abroad, showing the help they provide and what they wish they'd known. Every story is mapped to the college, city and country it concerns. Cases marked 📰 From the news are compiled by our team from published reporting, with sources linked — not first-person accounts.

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📰 From the news 1 Nov 2026

Six years as a 'doctor' in Suleja after dropping out of medical school: Niger State seals Ellamara Specialist Hospital and 14 other clinics, June 2026

Nigeria regulates private clinics state by state. In Niger State the Niger State Private Health Facilities Agency (NiSPHFA) licenses and inspects private hospi…

📍 Suleja, Nigeria

📰 From the news 1 Nov 2026

Twenty-one facilities in one week, eight more the next, a 'surgeon' caught attempting a goitre operation: Rivers State's October 2026 anti-quackery drive

Nigeria's Medical and Dental Council (MDCN) keeps the national register of doctors, but whether a clinic may open at all is a state matter. In Rivers State tha…

📍 Port Harcourt, Nigeria

📰 From the news 24 Sep 2026

A nursing assistant who printed his own university and council certificates, ran a hospital for three years and performed caesarean sections: the Ikorodu arrest

Nigeria's regulators have published lists of illegal universities and unapproved clerkships, recorded elsewhere on this site. The Ikorodu case shows what a per…

📍 Lagos, Nigeria

📰 From the news 24 Sep 2026

Medical school closed since 1 August, students protesting after a hundred days: the 2025 strike at LAUTECH, and why a recognised college can still lose you a year

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, runs a College of Health Sciences that is accredited by the Medical and Dental Council of Nige…

📍 Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) College of Health Sciences, Ogbomoso, Nigeria

📰 From the news 12 Sep 2026

Fifty-eight illegal universities at home, unapproved clerkships abroad: Nigeria's two regulators draw the line for medical students

Nigeria sends tens of thousands of students abroad for medicine — to Ukraine before the war, to Russia, Cyprus, the Caribbean, India, China — and receives them…

📍 Abuja, Nigeria

Why stories, not just reports?

A directory row says "agent X, overcharge". A story says how the WhatsApp group started, what the "university letter" looked like, when the fee changed, and what finally gave it away. That's what makes the next family pause before they transfer money.

Every scam story is either linked to an email-verified, team-reviewed fraud report (when it names someone) or describes the pattern without naming anyone. Every student story comes from a student we've verified — identity, college and live location.

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