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Abstract
Digitalization of accreditation programme is a rapidly growing trend in Nigerian tertiary institutions. This process involves using technology to streamline and improve the accreditation process for academic programs. This paper examine the benefits of academic programme accreditation digitalization. The paper is a position paper. The paper employed secondary data. The secondary data were collected from prints and online publications. The paper concluded that the benefits digitalization of academic programme accreditation in Nigeria includes; improvement in the efficiency of accreditation process, cost minimization, elimination of resources wastage, transparency in accreditation processes, sound assessment objectivity and consistency, quality in data collection and analysis, data security, online databases and collaboration among institutions. Based on this, the paper recommends that National Universities Commission, National Commission for Colleges of Education and National Board for Technical Education should embrace digitalization of academic programme accreditation in the tertiary institutions. Governments should provide the digital infrastructure facilities for National Universities Commission, National Commission for Colleges of Education and National Board for Technical Education to enable the institutions digitalize accreditation in the institutions. Staff of National Universities Commission, National Commission for Colleges of Education and National Board for Technical Education should be trained on digital skills to enable them work with digital facilities.