Section 5: Wide publicity to be given to accredited correspondence colleges

(1) In every case where the Ministry issues a certificate of accreditation to a correspondence college, a designated officer shall cause a publication to be made to that effect in the Federal Gazette and in as many newspapers having wide circulation in Nigeria as he may deem desirable.
(2) The Minister shall cause to be prepared and maintained by a designated officer a register of the names and addresses, and of such other particulars as may be specified, of all correspondence colleges accredited in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(3) It shall be the duty of the designated officer-
(a) to cause the register to be printed, published and put on sale to members of the public not later than six months after the commencement of this Act; and
(b) not less than twice in each year after that in which the register is first published under paragraph (a) of this subsection, to cause to be printed, published and put on sale as aforesaid, a corrected edition of the register which shall be as up to date as possible; and
(c) to cause a print of each edition to be available, at all reasonable times, for inspection by members of the public free of charge.
(4) A document purporting to be a print of an edition of a register published under this section by the designated officer shall (without prejudice to any other mode of proof) be admissible in any proceedings as evidence that a correspondence college specified in the document is fully or conditionally accredited and that any college not so specified therein is not so accredited
(5)
In this section, "designated officer" means any officer in the Federal Ministry of Education who may, from time to time, be charged with the general responsibility for the discharge of the functions specified under or pursuant to this section or any other provision of this Act.