The primary purpose of education in life is to develop the mind and the intellectual capacity of any learner as well as to equip the learner with the required skills and the new knowledge that will be needed by this learner either the world of employment or in an individual private enterprise or venture. Education is also the strongest and the most effective weapon against ignorance and poverty in the human universe. The educational system in Nigeria today from the elementary schools to the universities is now heavily infested with all types of academic dishonesties, such as, plagiarism, fabrication, deception, sabotage, cheating, professional misconduct, impersonation, sexual favors and bribery. The academic dishonesty is the worst enemy of any citadel of academic learning in the entire human universe today. The academic dishonesty defeats the whole essence of teaching, learning and testing what a learner knows or does not know before sending the learner out into the larger world with either a diploma, a certificate or an academic degree. This academic or professional award prepares any graduating learner to be able to make positive impacts in life and changes the larger society for good.
The recent revelation of the academic forgery of the Nigeria's aviation minister, Stella Oduah who claimed to have an MBA degree from one of the America's black historical universities that later proved to be totally false has further dented the international image and reputation of Nigeria as a nation of academic forgers. The reported massive academic malpractices in 2013 that happened at the Covenant University in Nigeria and in which the institution's former Vice-Chancellor was the major culprit became the biggest academic stain on this young Christian university and this bad news is circulating on the world wide web. The academic degrees that were already awarded by this university are now questionable and may no longer be recognized again worldwide by employers, professional bodies, immigration agencies and academic institutions around the world if these trends continue unabated. This young university will end up producing half-baked graduates for our Nigeria's labor market and the rest of the world. To save its young name and reputation worldwide from this ongoing academic stain. The young Covenant University should immediately withdraw the university degrees of all the students that benefitted directly from this academic massive fraud and then ask these university graduates to come back to retake those courses they passed through via academic frauds. The university should also make sure that these retaking students pass those courses again before their degrees are now re-awarded or they should be dismissed from those programs for academic fraud or incompetency.
The academic degrees that are awarded by the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria are no longer accepted by the America's largest foreign credential agency that is known as the World Education Service (WES) that is based in the New York city for their foreign credential evaluation services that allow this agency to be able to determine the US academic equivalencies of those foreign degrees. The WES on their company website singled out the academic degrees from the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria for their non evaluation services. The information reads as follows":Please Note: WES does not evaluate academic records from the University of Port Harcourt. The massive academic dishonesty that is affecting the academic institutions of learning in Nigeria in 2013 is a replica and a spill-over of the massive culture of the official corruption which has remained the standard way in which any type of business is normally conducted in Nigeria.
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