Nigerian senator's PhD exposed as fake
Nigeria's university commission has dismissed a senator's PhD
certificate as invalid, saying the institution where he claims to have
earned it is in fact an "illegal university".
Senator Foster Ogola
of Bayelsa West district in the Niger Delta region said he completed
his doctoral studies at Gospel Missionary Foundation, a theological
university, in 2012.
He said his PhD was on the topic of Christian leadership.
However no research paper or thesis by the senator exists online.
But Senator Ogola insists his degree is not fake, telling the BBC:
The university does not exist today. [But] it had been graduating students for several years every year... If the university is not accredited that does not make my degree fake."
He
says the dispute over his qualification is a politically motivated
attempt to discredit him and stop him from running for office again.
The
Gospel Missionary Foundation is among a number of universities due to
be closed down by the National Universities Commission of Nigeria.
BBC
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