The Medical Fellowship, as the primus academic and professional qualification, not only for specialist medical consultants in Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria but for lecturers in clinical medicine; have been a subject of a completely needless controversy lately. The origin of the new controversy is traceable to the jostle for the post of Vice chancellor (VC) of Lagos State University (LASU). Some members of the university community, perhaps to brighten the chances of their preferred candidate winning the VC race, raised the dust by pushing out a public release in which they insinuated that the Medical Fellowship is not a substitute to PhD for lecturers in clinical medicine. They painted the Medical Fellowship as some kind of sub-academic degree whose holders are unworthy of the VCship of LASU. This narrative was pushed, apparently, to discredit one of the shortlisted candidates, a Professor in a field of clinical medicine, who they may have thought had a brighter chance based on his academic standing, administrative experience, and outstanding personal qualities. Being a lecturer in clinical medicine and a holder of the Medical Fellowship myself, I was forced to make a rejoinder in a national daily, precisely the Punch Newspaper of 6th January, 2021, clarifying issues and showing clearly how the proponents of such ridiculous and divisive idea were completely wrong. In the said write up, we pointed attention to the rigor of the training requirements of the Medical Fellowship, its academic standing, the position of NUC and the LASU conditions of service on it, and a long list of Clinical Professors who had become Vice Chancellors of Universities in Nigeria, including LASU, who used the Fellowship as their foundational qualification in lieu of PhD. Aside the publication, several other interest groups, including medical elders, senior clinical professors, and the Medical and Dental Consultant Association of Nigeria (both National and Local bodies) waded in the controversy and also attempted to set the perspectives right on the unique nature of clinical medicine and the status of the Medical Fellowship as the highest academic and professional qualification for teaching and research in clinical medicine in Nigeria. Some of these clarifications must have gotten the attention of the authorities of LASU, as the renewed advertisement for the post of LASU VC clarified the status of the Fellowship as approved alternative to PhD as foundational qualification for clinical lecturers. With the new advertisement, the controversy was laid to rest and the race for the VC of LASU was back on course without any segment of the University academic community excluded for any unjust reason. Or so we thought. However, riding on the deliberate misconception of a recent statement credited to the Executive Secretary of Nigerian University Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed, encouraging the President of the newly established West African College of Medical Laboratory Science (WACMLS), that their trainees (medical laboratory scientists) should endeavour to pursue a PhD programme in addition to any professional training they may have acquired; the originators of the needless Fellowship vs. PhD controversy in LASU have reportedly rekindled their ill-advised propaganda using the statement of the NUC Executive Secretary (ES) as the new focal point of misinformation. They have been peddling the statement of the NUC ES as another evidence that the Medical Fellowship is not a substitute for PhD in clinical medicine and that it is indeed unrecognised by the NUC for the purpose of appointment and promotion in Nigerian Universities, including LASU, and that, by their reasoning, Professors with the Medical Fellowship should be discountenanced in the race for VC. The new clamour, just like the previous ones, is built on half-truths and falsehood. The context from which the NUC made the statement that is being bandied around is different. The people that approached the ES and to whom he directed his good advice were not medical doctors, they were laboratory scientists who recently started their own version of the Fellowship program. The ES was admonishing then to consider PhD along with the fellowship they are planning to start if they have interest in academics. This counsel is properly situated because from the outset, the sciences allied to Medicine such as nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, and medical laboratory science have always towed the line of PhD, if they want to pursue academic career. This is the age-long position of NUC on the academic staff in these fields and the practice within the Nigerian University system from time immemorial.