DOES PRESIDENT JONATHAN GOODLUCK OF NIGERIA HAVE A DOCTORATE DEGREE?

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". .