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The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, UCLES, now Cambridge Assessment, has provided further details on the West African School Certificate, WASC, results presented by Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Candidate in the February 14 presidential election.
In a new post on its website, the university confirmed result grades for the examination in 1961 were issued in numbers, not letters, as suggested by critics of Mr. Buhari who have dismissed the results he presented as fabricated.
According to Cambridge, “Examination results were classed in grades from 1 to 9”.
“1, 2,3,4,5 & 6 indicate a Pass with Credit; 7 & 8 indicate a Pass; 9 indicate a Failure,” the school said.
Results tendered by Mr. Buhari shows he had credits in English Language, Geography, Health Science, Hausa Language; failed in Mathematics and Woodwork, and had a pass in Literature in English.
In its post, Cambridge said for candidates to qualify for its certificate in 1961, they needed to pass English, and not necessarily Mathematics.
“To pass the School Certificate, candidates had to pass examinations in a variety of groups. It was compulsory to pass English Language, but not Maths, in order to gain the Certificate,” the university said. The details followed intense controversy over whether Mr. Buhari, a former Head of State and retired Army General, completed his secondary education.
The Nigerian constitution requires any candidate running for the office of the President to have at least the Senior Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent.
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the campaign office of President Goodluck Jonathan accuse Mr. Buhari of lacking the requisite qualification for the office of the president.
Mr. Buhari, who ran for president in 2003, 2007 and 2011, repeatedly declared that copies of his academic records were with the military. The former head of state also said original copies of his credentials were lost when his house was raided when he was in detention during the administration of Ibrahim Babangida who toppled his regime.
The Army at first said it had copies of Mr. Buhari’s results, but backtracked later, saying it had only a letter of recommendation from his principal at Katsina Provincial College, result grades without either the statement or certificate.
Responding, Mr. Buhari expressed surprise that the military could claim not to have his results, and insisted that he indeed completed high school and passed at Division Two level. PREMIUM TIMES later exclusively published copies of Mr. Buhari’s WASC results as well as a master list containing the results of some of his classmates, obtained from his former secondary school, now Government College, Katsina.
But after the publication of the Statement of Results, some Nigerians, including President Jonathan and the PDP, dismissed the results as forged.
One of the allegations said Hausa language was not part of the Cambridge exams in 1961.
Another said Mr. Buhari’s results that year were recorded in alphabets, not in letters as Mr. Buhari claimed.
While Cambridge has declined to categorically confirm Mr. Buhari’s results, saying only the APC candidate could request or authorize such disclosure, the school posted a response to enquiries on the matter on their website authenticating some of the claims in Mr. Buhari’s result.
The University confirmed that according to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa, were set for the West African School Certificate.
It also put the number of candidates who sat for the WASC Hausa examination in 1961 at 152.
“Our records show that Hausa was set in the Northern Region in 1961,” Cambridge said. The university also confirmed result grades in 1961 were issued in numbers, not letters - From Sahara Reporters
I am publicly challenging the authority of the University of Port-Harcourt in Nigeria to release a certified true copy of the original PhD thesis in zoology that President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria submitted to that university to obtain his doctorate degree in zoology in 1995. A public statement from the Registrar of the University of Port-Harcourt claiming that this President graduated with a tertiary degree in 1995 in zoology is not sufficient enough in addressing the controversies that surround this issue once and for all. The photocopy of the certificate of this President's doctoral degree in zoology from the University of Port-Harcourt that he submitted to the INEC is not also sufficient on its own to proof to all Nigerians that their President holds a terminal degree in zoology. A PhD is awarded worldwide when a thesis is written that reflects original research work and it is successfully defended before the constituted doctoral committee. Until the day I see a certified true copy of the original copy of the doctoral thesis of President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria in the field of zoology from the authority of the University of Port-Harcourt. I will not use the title of a Doctor (Dr) again before his name.
The forged email of the original email that I received from the United States Army War College. This cloned email claims that General Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria never attended this military college in America.
Some Nigerians talk without using any valid and credible statistical data to back up their claims. Some Nigerians say things like these; "Elections are not won on the Facebook page", "You are just an arm-chair social media activist", "Nigerians on the Facebook do not vote" and so on and so forth. The truth that most Nigerians may not be aware of is that 67 million Nigerians or about 38% of the national population of Nigerians used the Internet as of December 31, 2013. About 11 million Nigerians are now on the Facebook and making it the largest Facebook users in Africa. About 6 million of those Facebook users are under 25 years of age. The two leading presidential candidates in the next month presidential election in Nigeria, the incumbent President Jonathan Goodluck and the opposition politician, General Muhammadu Buhari are both highly active with their campaign updates on the social media. The popular Nigeria's pastors, Nollywood stars, businesses and companies are all actively on the social media, such as, Facebook, Twitter and blogs. Any Nigerian who still think that Facebook does not have any impact on the leaders of Nigeria, her politics, the incoming presidential elections in 2015 and in the governance of Nigeria is still living in the 20th century in our world of the 21st century #SocialMediaHaveImpactOnNigeriaAndNigerians
The political wave of change in Nigeria that is known today as the Buharism that is sweeping across every nook and crannies of Nigeria may eventually consume some of our today's popular Nigerian pastors on its unstoppable path toward this change in Nigeria that is now timely and inevitable as our country approaches a failing state status. These mega-Church preachers are presently benefiting financially from their religious patronage of these highly corrupt Nigerian state officials and from the bad governance of the Nigerian federation for the last few decades by putting their poor, helpless hopeless, desperate, vulnerable and gullible disciples in the perceptual state of religious bondage and financial slavery. This ongoing wind of political change in Nigeria has now attracted more Nigerians across all tribes, genders, religions, geopolitical zones and socioeconomic status to its camp for that battle for a better Nigeria than the messages of these fake pastors. The battle line is now drawn.
This is the only co-authored academic paper that can be traced directly to President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria in his entire academic career that spanned about 10 years as a lecturer in the then Rivers State College of Education, Department of Science in Port-Harcourt according to his official resume. This academic paper is not a master's degree thesis or a doctoral degree thesis in zoology. It is a scientific paper that was presented at the 4th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), 26-29 November, 1985 in Port-Harcourt. Nigerians are now asking their President to ask the authority of the University of Port-Harcourt to release the certified true copy of the original copy of his doctoral degree thesis in Zoology that this President said was awarded to him in 1985 by the University of Port-Harcourt. Until the day I see a certified true copy of the original copy of the doctoral thesis of President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria in the field of zoology from the authority of the University of Port-Harcourt. I will not use the title of a Doctor (Dr) again before his name.
Identification of West African estuarine shrimp and crab larvae
Jonathan, G.E. and Powell, C.B. and Hart, A.I. (1985) Identification of West African estuarine shrimp and crab larvae. In: 4th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON) , 26-29 November, 1985 ,Port-Harcourt, Nigeria, pp. 197-206.
The paper deals with the decapod crustacean larvae likely to be found in fresh and brackish waters in tropical west Africa. It summarizes results from an ongoing program of describing larvae hatched directly from adults of known species, to provide the identification keys necessary for applied research on nursery grounds, plankton ecology and pollution effects. A preliminary key to stage - 1 larvae is given for approximately 40 species. In includes all the genera, and nearly all the species, known to produce larvae in fresh and low-salinity waters. The common species of higher salinity waters are also included. See the full paper on this link:http://aquaticcommons.org/id/eprint/3411
I am one of the Nigerians that is not surprised or disappointed for one second of my life by the bad, ineffective, visionless and corrupt leadership of President Jonathan Goodluck in the governance of Nigeria for the last five years as the Nigeria's acting president, substative president and elected president. The truth is that I have never supported his ascendancy to the presidency of Nigeria since the day that he was nominated by the PDP in January of 2011 as their party's candidate to run in the presidential election of that year.
I have three reasons why I have never supported this President from 2011 to date. Firstly, he was never prepared and ready for the huge challenges and the responsibilities of the office of the President of Nigeria. He needs more than GOODLUCK to govern Nigeria with positive results. Secondly, his rise in politics from his first nomination as a deputy governorship candidate in 1999 in Bayelsa State to his nomination as the vice-presidential candidate in 2007 were all based on the politics of godfatherism, zoning, ethnicity and religious affiliation and never on merit, his track record of past achievements and exemplary leadership quality and style that he processes.
Lastly, President Jonathan Goodluck has no single public record of ever actively fighting the menace of official corruption and resource mismanagement in his entire public life and service either as a deputy state governor, a state governor, a vice president of Nigeria, an acting president of Nigeria and the president of Nigeria. I personally consider both the official corruption and resource wastage as the number one enemy of Nigeria and Jonathan Goodluck is not that messiah that will take Nigeria to her great future. A vote for Jonathan Goodluck in 2015 is a vote for the further setback and the destruction of Nigeria. Nigerians, please vote this President out of office in 2015.
General Muhammadu Buhari has now showed to every Nigerian that a life of honesty, integrity and transparency in the public service of our great nation of Nigeria has a great reward at the end of the day. The evidence is seen in the unprecedented acceptability and the genuine popularity of General Buhari among tens of millions of Nigerians that cut across tribes, religions and geopolitical zones both in Nigeria and in the diaspora.
"The fundamental issue facing this country is insecurity and the problem of the economy, which was being made worse by corruption. I assure you that we are going to finally assemble a competent team of Nigerians to efficiently manage this country. The damage that has been done to this country is great. The level of unemployment, the level of insecurity is intolerable. The damage has been done. It will take time, it will take patience, it will take support from you to make sure that we succeed when we get there.’’ - General Muhammadu Buhari.
"90% of deposits in all the Nigerian banks are owned by less than 5% of the population. At the same time, 72% of Nigeria's national budget caters for less than 10% of the population." - World Bank
Any Nigerian who is still doubting that official corruption and resource mismanagement in the governance of Nigeria for the last few decades are not directly responsible for our failing status as a nation must be living in his or her own Nigeria that is located in a non-human universe in 2015. The truth is that Nigerians will never enjoy constant supply of electricity until this official corruption is dealt with. Nigerians will never enjoy the constant supply of cheap and affordable petroleum products as a leading oil producing and exporting nation until this official corruption is addressed effectively. Nigerians will never have good roads to drive on, effective national train system that connects every part of Nigeria together and modern airlines and airports of international standards until this official corruption is put under full control. The high rate of youth unemployment that affects millions of the young educated Nigerians and the poor wages that millions of the hardworking Nigerians earn are both products of official corruption. Nigeria's educational system, health care infrastructures and social services will not function effectively and at their full capacities until this official corruption is brought to justice. Nigerians will continue to live in the atmosphere of insecurity to their life and properties as well as with the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency until this official corruption is dealt with properly which is the one that is preventing the Nigerian police and the Nigerian military from performing at their best for Nigeria. The economy of Nigeria will never be vibrant and her Naira will never be strong again in our lifetime until the menace of official corruption is eliminated from the governance of Nigeria. Nigeria is where she is today because of the reign of official corruption in the land. Official corruption is the number known enemy of Nigeria. Official corruption is killing Nigeria daily. Official corruption will never allow Nigeria to fulfill her destiny in our lifetime in the international community of nations. If we do not kill this official corruption now in Nigeria, this evil will eventually kill Nigeria and turn her into a failed nation.
EVENT CANCELED: We regret that because of a last minute change in Major-General (ret.) Muhammadu Buhari's schedule, the CSIS Africa Program event, "Countdown to Nigeria's 2015 Elections," originally scheduled for Monday, January 26, is canceled.
Over the course of the last year, through the CSIS Nigeria Election Forum, the CSIS Africa Program has provided a neutral venue to profile a range of views from Nigerian civil society organizations, political leadership of both parties, and government officials. The series has aimed to convey to a U.S. policy audience what is at stake in the forthcoming elections and support efforts to ensure that the electoral process is free, fair, credible, and peaceful. In the run-up to the election, the leadership of Nigeria’s two main political parties were both extended an invitation to speak at CSIS.
We apologize for any inconvenience this cancellation may cause.
General Muhammadu Buhari, the opposition presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of Nigeria has canceled the invitation that was given to him by the powerful political think-tank body, the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. The secretary of the CSIS confirmed this new development to this blogger in a telephone chat about 15 minutes ago that the cancellation came in from the Buhari Campaign Organization in Nigeria about one hour ago of Buhari's inability to make it to Washington, DC.
KADUNA, Nigeria — Boisterous crowds packed the streets for the retired general, while young men climbed lampposts, walls and billboards to glimpse his gaunt face. Others danced on careening motorcycles, brandishing homemade brooms, symbols of his campaign.
With Nigeria’s presidential election only weeks away, Boko Haram’s unchecked rampaging here in the country’s north is helping to propel the 72-year-old general, Muhammadu Buhari, to the forefront.
After ruling Nigeria with an iron hand 30 years ago as the country’s military leader, Mr. Buhari is now a serious threat at the ballot box, analysts say, in large part because of Boko Haram’s blood-soaked successes.
“The state is collapsing and everybody is frightened,” Jibrin Ibrahim, a political scientist with the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, said of Boko Haram.
“They are able to capture more and more territory, but also increase the level of atrocity,” he added. “A lot of people are frightened that these people can take over the whole country. So a lot of people are saying, ‘Give Buhari a chance.’ ”
A Buhari win would be a rare upset for the incumbent, PresidentGoodluck Jonathan, in a country where petrodollars have long flowed and the presidency has great latitude to distribute them.
But oil prices have crashed; attacks on schools, markets and entire villages continue unabated; and Nigeria’s army has been thoroughly incapable of stopping Boko Haram, which now controls substantial portions of the northeast and regularly sends the country’s soldiers fleeing.
“We have to solve it; it’s the first problem of the country,” Mr. Buhari said tersely about the battle with Boko Haram during a long day of campaigning this week.
“This should have been an easy one,” added the former general, who is believed to have been a target of bombings in this city over the summer in which dozens were killed. “But it has been allowed to develop over five years.”
There is much at stake in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, even as it falters — the currency has dropped sharply, questions are swirling about the ability to pay civil servants and the country’s oil-money reserves have withered. The campaign has become a vociferous, at times violent, joust between Buhari partisans in the mostly Muslim north and supporters of Mr. Jonathan in the largely Christian south.
Mr. Buhari’s tenure as Nigeria’s military ruler was brief: a 20-month stint in the 1980s, ended by another military coup. Yet it is remembered with trepidation by many Nigerians. His self-proclaimed “war against indiscipline” was carried to “sadistic levels, glorying in the humiliation of a people,” wrote the Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka.
The current president and his party, which has held power since military rule ended more than 15 years ago, have made this past a central part of Mr. Jonathan’s re-election strategy, hoping to fan old fears about the general.
Full-page newspaper ads suggest that Mr. Buhari is eager to introduceShariah law all over the country, beyond the northern states where it already exists (in the campaign, Mr. Buhari has not said that).
Other ads remind readers of the retired general’s coup-prone past. (Historians say that even before Mr. Buhari came to power in a military coup at the end of 1983, he played an active role in the coups that marked Nigeria’s early years.)
But Mr. Buhari’s supporters are far more interested in the instability shaking the north, urging a total overhaul of the lackluster fight against the Islamists. Many of them turned out in this northern metropolis this week for a glimpse of the general, who has traded his medal-bedecked uniform for traditional robes and thick-framed spectacles.
Hadiza Bala Usman, the main campaigner for the return of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last spring, was waiting for the general at the airport here. She helped start the group that pressed the government on the fate of the girls, demonstrating for weeks in a public square in Abuja. Nine months after their abduction, the girls remain missing.
“The resources meant for the military don’t go to the military; the bullets and boots don’t go to the soldiers,” Ms. Usman said. “And what is happening to security, you see it in all the sectors.”
“The support we’re giving” to Mr. Buhari “is for ending the insurgency,” she added. “And so no more children are abducted.”
A retired general in the crowd of supporters, Alhassan Usman, who is not related to Ms. Usman, agreed, expressing anger that Boko Haram had gained the upper hand over Nigeria’s soldiers.
“The issue is lack of discipline; the commander has eaten his money,” he said, arguing that officers take money meant for soldiers, who then see little reason to obey orders.
Mr. Buhari stood as ramrod straight as he had in the days when he rose in a coup against Nigeria’s fledgling, but corrupt, democracy. After taking power, he soon instituted what he called his attempt to straighten out a chaotic nation — making tardy civil servants, even older ones, perform frog jumps, for instance, and jailing journalists for critical articles.
That tarnished past has been, if not forgotten, at least pushed aside by many in the tumultuous jumble of Nigerian history. Mr. Buhari is expected to do particularly well in the Muslim north, his home turf, on Election Day, as he did in an unsuccessful run four years ago.
Still, his campaign faces stiff obstacles. Tens of thousands of people in northern Nigeria have been displaced by relentless violence, and many of them will be unable to vote in the Feb. 14 election. Even if they can, Nigerian elections are prone to violence and fraud.
This week, the streets of Kaduna were packed three-deep with people, many waiting since early morning or trekking miles from nearby villages to see him. Partisans yelled as they climbed on the general’s vehicles, frenetically brushing windshields with the symbolic brooms.
Mr. Buhari spoke only briefly to the packed stands in a downtown stadium, vaguely promising greater security, prosperity and better education. But the words appeared not to be the point. It was his presence, and an implicit promise of austerity and military action, that the crowd seemed to want, after years of scandalous stories in the Nigerian news media about missing oil funds and high living by officials in Mr. Jonathan’s administration.
“The enthusiasm for Buhari is almost like a religion,” said Nasir el-Rufai, a former government minister running for governor of Kaduna State.
“Look at all these people,” he said, pointing at the crowds pressing up against his own car before the general arrived. “They are all waiting just to see Buhari.”
As military ruler, Mr. Buhari expelled tens of thousands of immigrants from other West African countries, blaming them for the country’s problems. His government also carried out a bizarre kidnapping plot targeting a former minister who had fled to London. It involved Israeli secret agents, giant packing crates and anesthetic drugs.
In an interview, Mr. Buhari said that the times had changed and that he had changed with them.
“I operated as a military head of state,” he said. “Now I want to operate as a partisan politician in a multiparty setup. It’s a fundamental difference. Whatever law is on the ground, I will make sure it is respected.”
Yet it is Mr. Buhari’s long military career, not the respect for civil liberties he has proclaimed later in life, that will ultimately swing voters wary of his past, analysts say.
“You’ve got the Boko Haram in the northeast, where they bomb churches and marketplaces, and slaughter children,” he said.
But he also noted the security problems in the nation’s south, where militants at oil fields have created havoc for years. “No highway in the country is absolutely safe,” Mr. Buhari said.
Though supporters insist he will knock out the Islamists “in a month,” as Mr. el-Rufai put it, the retired general is far more cautious. He spoke of a methodical approach, declining to say whether he would fire the country’s top military chiefs.
“We have to see the whole picture,” Mr. Buhari said. “We’ll ask them to brief us, one by one. Why haven’t they been performing?”
“Let them justify the use of funds,” he added. “What is the intelligence community doing? Where do they,” Boko Haram, “get weapons?”
He focused on the individual failures in confronting Boko Haram — the misspent money, the lack of weaponry for the soldiers, their lack of motivation for the fight — rather than on an overall condemnation of the army.
His jaw muscles tightening, he said: “This is not the Nigerian Army I knew.”
The following is offered in response to questions you've forwarded to the
Army War College. I am sending a single email so that you will all have the
same information about the value of the 1980 diploma earned by COL Buhari,
and the role of international officers at the Army War College.
Retired Maj Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, of Nigeria, is a 1980 graduate of the
10-month Army
War College resident education program, at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
COL Buhari was a member of the third Army War College class to have included
International Fellows. The Class of 1980 was the first student body to have
a large enough number of
International Fellows to seat one in every student seminar. The
International
Fellows Program was part of a major initiative to strengthen the Army War
College curriculum by bringing broader perspectives of international
partners into the War College experience.
The Chief of Staff of the Army invites International Fellows from select
countries to attend the Resident Education Program and Distance Education
Program each
year. These programs offer an opportunity for International Fellows to
participate with U.S. students in seminar and to study, research, and write
on subjects of
significance to the security interests of their own and allied nations. The
International Fellows establish mutual understanding and rapport with senior
U.S. officers and foreign
officers and enrich the educational environment of USAWC. Since the
International Fellows are immersed in U.S. culture, they have an opportunity
to acquire firsthand
knowledge of the United States and its institutions through study and
travel.
Since 1980, the International Fellows Program has expanded broadly. The
Class of 2015 includes 79 international officers, representing 73 countries.
Each student seminar group in the resident education program includes three
to four International Fellows studying alongside US military officers of the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, with representation from the US
Coast Guard and selected civilians of several federal agencies.
All US Army War College students are competitively selected for attendance
-- by their Service if a US military officer, or by their country's armed
forces when the country receives an invitation.
In general terms, the Army War College resident education program still has
the same major themes, albeit in 1980 there was more focus on operations.
The college was, and remains, focused on professional education for national
security professionals to serve society.
Overwhelmingly the focus was and is on Army professional education
requirements.
No master's degrees were awarded by the US Army War College in 1980; the
first MSS degree was with the class of 2000.
The high quality of the existing curriculum was key to the College attaining
accreditation to grant the MSS degree -- there was no major effort required
to reorient the curriculum content and methodologies that had existed
pre-2000.
Carol Kerr
U.S. Army War College
Public Affairs Officer
The strongest evidence for the award of an academic doctoral degree to any individual worldwide by colleges and universities is through the thesis or a dissertation. The doctoral degree program in the University of Port-Harcourt in Nigeria is pattered directly after the British system of postgraduate education, where a doctoral program is done primarily by research that leads to the production of an original research work that is called a thesis. Doctorate degree is all about thesis and thesis is what a doctorate degree is all about. President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria has refused to date to make a copy of his doctoral degree thesis in zoology that he claimed was awarded to him by the University of Port-Harcourt available to his fellow Nigerians. A certificate presentation is not strong enough or self sufficient on its own to claim that anyone in the world holds an academic doctorate degree without a copy of the thesis to back it up. The only doctorate degree that is awarded worldwide and does not require a thesis is the honorary doctorate degree that President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria does not have in the field of zoology from the University of Port-Harcourt in Nigeria.
Saudi state television has just reported that Saudi King Abdullah has died. His successor will be his half-brother. Saudi Arabia has one of the world's largest known oil reserves today and she is a major player in the global energy politics and in the Middle East crisis.
This is a photocopy of the highlighted page 27 of the book titled "A Life of Service"(Lynne Rienner Pub., 2004). ISBN 978-8069-36-3 that was written by the late Major General Shehu Musa Yar;Adua who was the Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters in the then military government of Nigeria that was headed by General Olusegun Obasanjo between 1976 and 1979. The late Major General Shehu Musa Yar;Adua was the classmate of Major General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 14, 2015 presidential election in Nigeria, at the then Kastina Provisional Secondary School where both of them sat for the Cambridge/West African School Certificate examination and graduated together in 1961 before both decide to enlist in the Nigerian Army as cadet-in-training.
General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, graduated from the United States Army War College in 1980, the college confirmed on Thursday. In an email response to Sunday Iwalaiye, a US-based Nigerian who contacted the institution in view of the controversy about the General’s academic credentials, Carrol Kerr, the school’s Public Affairs Officer, said that Buhari earned a diploma. He was at that time a colonel. It is instructive that the American public institution’s response to Iwalaiye arrived within 17 minutes of his inquiry. Ms. Kerr also confirmed that the college began to award Masters degrees with the class of 2000.
The educational qualifications that are claimed by General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next month presidential election in Nigeria have now been fully investigated and thoroughly scrutinized through the authorities of those academic and military institutions that awarded General Buhari those academic and professional credentials. General Buhari's academic and professional qualifications have now been found by Nigerians to be valid, true and credible. The political controversies that followed the demand for the official verification of his academic qualifications are now finally laid to rest in Nigeria with the release of the official statement of his results for the Cambridge/West African School Certificate Examination that he took and passed in 1961 from the then Kastina Provisional Secondary School before enlisting in the Nigerian Army.
President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria claims publicly to hold a Doctorate of Science Degree in Zoology from the University of Port-Harcourt in Nigeria. A doctorate degree is the highest academic qualification that colleges and universities all over the world award in the different fields of the human endeavors. A doctorate degree is awarded when a thesis or a dissertation that depicts original research work is written by a doctoral student, and the thesis is accepted by his or her doctoral dissertation committee, and this thesis must then be defended orally and successfully. A doctorate dissertation is also a public academic record kept in the university library unless it is classified thesis for security reasons.
The truth today in Nigeria is that there is no Nigerian that has seen the doctorate dissertation of President Jonathan Goodluck to date as the President of that country. Why is the PhD thesis of this President hidden from his fellow Nigerians by the authority of the University of Port-Harcourt? Who were the members of his doctoral dissertation committee? Who was his direct supervisor for his doctoral research work? What topic did this President investigate in his doctoral thesis? Where is the photo evidence of the award of his doctorate degree at his conferment ceremony by this university? There is no evidence that any part of the dissertation of this President doctoral thesis was ever peer-reviewed or presented in any local and international conferences of the zoologists. There is no evidence also that this thesis ever made it to any reputable local and international academic journals in zoology for publication. There is no existing evidence that shows that other zoologists ever cited, referenced or referred to any portion of his dissertation for further research work in the field of zoology to date.
The University of Port-Harcourt in Nigeria has also built an international reputation for academic forgery. The United States oldest and the largest foreign credential evaluation agency, the World Education Services (WES) with its head office in New York city has refused for many years to evaluate any degrees that are awarded by this Nigerian university in Port-Harcourt. The services of WES are recognized globally and are used by the United States federal, state and local agencies, admission officers of the thousands of colleges and universities across America, registrars of hundreds of professional and licensing agencies, as well as the employers of labor and immigration attorneys. The WES refers to the University of Port-Harcourt where President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria claimed to have obtained his doctorate degree in zoology on their company website as "Please Note: WES does not evaluate academic records from the University of Port Harcourt". .
