Nigeria, Nov. 12 -- Over 12,000 Nigerian graduates have successfully uploaded their final year research projects to the Nigerian government's recently established National Education Repository and Databank (NERD), a month after the portal went live on 14 October.

According to a PREMIUM TIMES review of the portal on Wednesday, the Ekiti State University (EKSU) leads with 980 project submissions, comprising 974 undergraduate and six postgraduate entries.

It is followed by Bayero University, Kano (BUK), with 643 undergraduate entries and zero postgraduate entries, as well as the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) with 568 undergraduate entries.

Other institutions at the top of the uploads list are: Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, (563); Ambros...