Nigeria, Feb. 17 -- The University of Ilorin's flagrant violation of the assigned admission quota for Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) has left close to 50 graduates stranded and unable to be inducted into the medical profession six months after graduating.

At least 44 MBBS graduates of the university are still waiting without a date for induction or enrolment for their housemanship or the National Youth Service (NYSC), as the university fails to present them to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) for induction.

The MDCN approved a maximum of 150 as the admission quota for the MBBS programme at the university. However, UNILORIN violated this quota and admitted over 200 students into the programme in 2017, and is now concealing i...