The Web site for Sefcody`s International College in Nigeria has vanished from the Internet following reports that photographs of its campus were amazingly like Rhodes University`s campus in Grahamstown.
To its credit, the site had gone to the trouble of doctoring one picture to insert the Sefcody`s College name on the clock tower at the Rhodes administration building.
Under the headline "Nigerians have stolen Rhodes", the Dispatch Online ran an article yesterday pointing out that in addition to the photographs, the Sefcody`s site carried a message from the registrar that exactly matched the message from the registrar on the Rhodes University site.
The Sefcody`s site appeared to have been geared to scamming teachers looking for work, as several Web sites still carry advertisements offering teaching posts at the college. According to the Dispatch Online, teachers applying for posts would have to pay a $350 processing fee.
While the college`s name is alternately spelt "Safcody`s" and "Sefcody`s", a Mr Oscar Okpara has posted several advertisements on international teachers` Web sites, calling for applications from language teachers.
Waxing lyrical about the college`s well-equipped and spacious classrooms, staff rooms, laboratory and facilities, Sefcody`s says: "We boast of high standard of learning and we are well known country-wide and internationally as a centre of academic excellence."
Applicants are promised "lucrative" lecturing posts with "very attractive housing, car and other benefits".
Messages posted on the international teaching site www.teachers.net today warn teachers against applying for the posts, with one of them claiming that Okpara`s name was previously linked with a trading company whose Web site was similar to that of Sefcody`s.
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