rudedough:

I couldn't agree more. If Stella Oduah is found guilty, she must refund every payment, salaries and allowances collected by her for the duration of her ministerial position.

She must also be charged rental for her stay at the Govt house.

Then finally, she will be charged and tried in a civilized court and sent to prison for forgery, theft, and other legal offences. I do hope that she's not found guilty though, cos i'll be disappointed.

Maxymilliano: Many are the affliction of Stella Oduah ...

manny4life:

Seriously?

Really? We're watching na... The best is yet to unfold.

rudedough:

Yes sir, she must refund every penny she's gotten. It's tax payers money and she cannot keep it when she's not earned it genuinely. But that would be a discussion for later btw.

For now, let's just hope she's not found guilty. I'm optimistic on this one and i don't want to be disappointed.

Garri the 1st: This attack against Ndigbo must be resisted by all sons and daughters of Ndigbo....

lawrence79: Always cautious to belive all these kind of sensitive info from untrusted source.
Waiting for this news from a more reliable source , before digesting it.

joromi: Sahara Reporters,
You guys are on point.
Well meaning Nigerians are really appreciative of your ever efficient journalistic efforts.
Thank you.

rockbase360: Stella Oduah, Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation 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 supposedly awarded it.

Her resume, which she presented to the 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 SaharaReporters has learned from the President of the college that it has never in its 125-year history had a graduate school or graduate program.

The Provost Vice President of Academic Affairs, and the Vice President of Institutional Development said in response to our inquiries, “We don’t offer any graduate programs here.”

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.

The Minister’s documentation shows she received an undergraduate degree in accounting from the college in 1982, but Dr. Claud Flythe, St. Paul’s current president, could neither confirm nor deny this during a phone conversation with SaharaReporters. Further verification with the Office of Alumni Affairs is also currently impossible, the school said, because the college has been closed since June 2013 to loss of its accreditation.

“[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.”

In October, SaharaReporters broke the story that Mrs. Oduah, a former campaign manager for President Goodluck Jonathan, purchased two bulletproof BMW cars worth $ 1.6 Million (N255m) through the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, for her own use.

Following an investigation, the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation dismissed the Minister’s pleas of innocence and all her rebuttals during her testimony. The committee’s report, which was subsequently adopted by the House, declared that no budgetary appropriation had been made for the purchase of the cars, and that the NCAA proposal for their purchase was rejected.

President Jonathan also set up a three-member administrative panel to investigate the matter, but he immediately travelled out of the country with Mrs. Oduah and Colonel Dasuki, the National Security Adviser who was to serve as a member of the panel. Not only did the panel submit its report much later than the two weeks it was given for the assignment, Mr. Jonathan has refused to release its report.

Mrs. Oduah’s new certificate questions are certain to feed into national concern about her credibility as an elected official, but also about Mr. 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 House will be sufficiently motivated to take up the matter with the Executive.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s aviation industry continues to face a massive challenge, with struggling airports and airlines, as well as financial and administrative pitfalls that hinder expansion and development.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/us-college-says-it-did-not-award-mba-stella-oduah-it-has-no-masters-programme

Demdem: Jonathan just surrounds himself with rogues and thieves. Yet one fool will tell me that he is an agent of Change.

tellwisdom: I still wonder how these grown men live their lives grumbling and making silly of themselves over unconfirmed news. Its a pity

Demdem: Jonathan just surrounds himself with rogues and thieves. Yet one fool will tell me that he is an agent of Change.

donphilopus: No! You supported her on the armoured car saga, and you want to support here on this again, right?

Garri the 1st: This attack against Ndigbo must be resisted by all sons and daughters of Ndigbo....

superstar1:

So, because i am givimg holier-than-thou attitude, I should not question someone that is being paid with tax payers money; someone that lied to gain an undue advantage. She was made a minister on falsehood. No wonder, she could buy odeshi-proof cars. She forgot to buy Sahara Reporters-proof car.

She is nothing but a FRAUD.

If you dont question your leaders in Alaigbo, other parts of the country are not that gullible.

paranorman: Sho??! This sahara reporters self!! Dem dey use jazz??! How dem take dey know all this secrets na?