Stella Oduah, Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation who is embroiled in a
scandal of towering proportions in the ministry, faces new integrity
questions as her Masters’ degree has been challenged by the United
States school which supposedly awarded it.
Her
resume, which she presented to the Senate as a ministerial nominee in
2011, indicated she obtained a Master's degree in Business
Administration (MBA) from St. Paul’s College Lawrenceville, Virginia,
United States.
But SaharaReporters has learned from the President
of the college that it has never in its 125-year history had a graduate
school or graduate program.
The Provost Vice President of
Academic Affairs, and the Vice President of Institutional Development
said in response to our inquiries, “We don’t offer any graduate programs
here.”
Similarly, the school’s website states: “Saint Paul's
College is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate [bachelor’s]
degrees.” There is no mention of graduate degrees.
The
Minister’s documentation shows she received an undergraduate degree in
accounting from the college in 1982, but Dr. Claud Flythe, St. Paul’s
current president, could neither confirm nor deny this during a phone
conversation with SaharaReporters. Further verification with the Office
of Alumni Affairs is also currently impossible, the school said,
because the college has been closed since June 2013 to loss of its
accreditation.
Nigerian govt are so foolish to not have noticed dat she had a fake degree
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