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The visitors failed to capitalize on their early lead, allowing Espanyol back into the match, and they equalized on 30 minutes when Calatrava found his way into the centre of the penalty area to slot home Javi Hernandez's cross. Both sides went close before a lethargic Real Madrid came back into the encounter late on with multiple substitutions, including Yan Diomande, the club's new record signing, and Espi, bought for €25 million from Levante. The youngster made the difference when he nudged a loose ball away from the goalkeeper following good work by Kylian Mbappe and slotted into an empty net to hand Madrid maximum points with his 13th La Liga goal since January.

Real Madrid continued its run of not losing on the opening day for the 18th consecutive season, and marked only the second time in club history Real will win on the opening day with a 90th-minute goal. They face Real Sociedad on Wednesday at the Santiago Bernabeu in their next league match. Meanwhile, an article by Engr.

Professor Baba El-Yakubu, published in Daily Trust on 12 August 2026, makes an articulate case for the continued accreditation of university engineering programmes by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). His concern for the quality of engineering education and professional competence is understandable and should be shared by every Nigerian. However, the central argument appears to confuse two related but legally and institutionally distinct responsibilities: the regulation of university education and the regulation of engineering professional practice.

The question is not whether COREN should contribute to the quality of engineering education or not, but whether such professional involvement gives COREN an independent regulatory jurisdiction over degree programmes in Nigerian universities. There is an interesting contradiction in Professor El-Yakubu's own account. He states that for more than a decade he has participated in NUC accreditation exercises while simultaneously playing a leading role in COREN's Engineering Accreditation Committee.

Far from demonstrating the inadequacy of NUC accreditation, this illustrates precisely how the NUC system is intended to operate. NUC does not accredit engineering programmes by sending administrators, historians or political scientists to determine whether engineering laboratories are adequate. Accreditation panels draw upon professors, engineers and specialists from the relevant disciplines.

Engineering academics who are themselves registered engineers therefore participate in the NUC quality assurance process. Indeed, many, if not most, senior academics teaching professional engineering courses are themselves members of COREN and the Nigerian engineering profession. Consequently, the argument should not be presented as though NUC represents academic bureaucracy while COREN alone represents engineering expertise.

Engineering expertise already resides within the university system and is incorporated into NUC's accreditation machinery. NUC's responsibility is to establish the regulatory framework and draw upon appropriate specialists to implement it. The Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions) Act, Cap.

E3, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, expressly empowers the National Universities Commission to establish minimum standards for universities and other degree-awarding institutions and to accredit their degrees and other academic awards. The NUC is not merely an institutional regulator concerned with buildings, governance and administration. Its statutory mandate expressly extends to degree programmes and academic awards.