Jonathan is yet to reveal the findings of the panel he set up to
investigate Stella Oduah's cars scandal. Stella Oduah, Nigeria's
Aviation Minister 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 she claimed
awarded the degree to her.
Her resume, presented to 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 the School's Provost Vice
President of Academic Affairs and Vice President of Institutional
Development said in response to inquiries: “We don't offer any graduate
programs here.”
Sahara Reporters has learned from the President
of the college that it has never in its 125-year history had a graduate
school or graduate program.
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.
“[Oduah] realized very early in life the
indispensability of a sound education in her growth plans in life and
therefore pursued her education with all diligence and sense of
purpose,” her documents claimed, adding that a determination “to have
the best education at the highest level” prompted her stay at the
Virginia college in 1983 for the MBA programme.
As her public
relations machinery marched on, in December 2012 The Sun newspaper
published an article headlined “Stella Oduah: An Amazon of
transformation,” which lauded her “MBA from St Paul's College,
Lawrenceville Virginia USA.” The story also praised her for being an
official who brought her “rich educational background to bear on the
aviation sector by automating revenue centers in all the agencies and
parastatals to boost their revenue profile and enhance transparency and
accountability in the system.”
US College Says It Did Not Award MBA To Stella Oduah As It Has No Masters Programme too
Oduah's
new certificate questions are certain to feed into national concern
about her credibility as an elected official, but also about Jonathan's
credibility, and about the nation's security apparatus which verifies
official documents offered to the Senate for official nominations.
If
Mrs. Oduah deliberately deceived the Senate, it remains to be seen if
the Upper Legislative House will be sufficiently motivated to take up
the matter appropriately.
So many Ministers are using Fake certificate too, nemesis hasn't just caught up with them yet.