Certificate Saga: Hausa Language Was Not Offered in 1961, Says Report

26 Jan 2015

Despite the release of the school certificate result of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the controversy over the released result has not subsided.

A research report by an educationist and Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Ilorin, A. A. Adeyinka, has punched holes in the claims by Buhari that he sat for and got a credit pass in Hausa Language from the Provincial College (now Government College), Katsina, in 1961.

Adeyinka, in the report titled: “Major Trends in Curriculum Development in Nigeria”, said no school in Nigeria offered subjects in local languages at the time.

His research report had further chipped away the credibility of the Statement of Result released by the college to support Buhari’s claim that he sat for the secondary school certificate examination in 1961.

According to Adeyinka’s research findings available at www.unilorin.edu, prior to the emergence of a centralised government of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon from 1966 to 1975, all regions in Nigeria had different academic curriculums.

He added that it was only the Western Region that offered a local language as a subject in both its curriculum and school certificate examinations.

The university don said it was after a central government was formed and a universal educational curriculum was developed and adopted that other local languages were included in school curriculums in 1974.

He listed subjects in the academic curriculum to include English Language, Biology, Commerce, Principles of Accounts, Health Science, Literature in English, Bible Knowledge, History, Geography, Yoruba, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

According to Adeyinka, Yoruba was included in the academic curriculum following the recommendations of a commission set up to review the academic curriculum for schools in the then Western region.

He wrote: “In the former Western region, for example, both the Banjo Report (1961) and the Taiwo Report (1968) recommended the revision of the school syllabuses and the introduction of a new structure of education.

“The Banjo report specifically recommended a new model for secondary education, comprising junior and senior secondary schools. The curriculum of the former should be comprehensive.

“Similar recommendations were made in the East (Dike 1959, Ivan Ikoku, 1964).”
In the same vein, the Director Media, Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, claimed that he came across an e-mail dated Thursday, January 22, 2015 from the institution’s Archives Delivery Service Officer, Jacky Emerson, to one Sodiq Alabi who requested confirmation if the examination body offered Hausa Language in the 1961 West African Certificate Examination it organised.

Emerson, in his one-sentence reply, said: “According to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa, were not included for West African School Certificate.”

He had pointed out a number of inconsistencies in the document at a press conference last Thursday in Abuja.

Among other things, Fani-Kayode pointed out the alteration on Mathematics, which he said Buhari must have failed, adding that since that was the case, he should not have been enlisted in the military as a commissioned officer, having failed to satisfy the requirement of pass at credit level in Mathematics.

He said at best, Buhari should have been enlisted as a non-commissioned officer.
He had also questioned the recent passport photograph of Buhari on the statement of result (which is not a certified true copy) purportedly issued by the Ministry of Education, Katsina State; the “1961” date at the top of the document which conflicted with the “2015” date signed by the Principal of Government College (Pilot) Katsina, whose name was not stated in the document.

Meanwhile, Fani-Kayode has also faulted reports which claimed that the Minister of Defence, Gen. Aliyu Gusau, said Buhari passed his Cambridge/WASCE examination in 1961 and that they attended Katsina College together.

Fani-Kayode, in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, said the report was part of the opposition’s propaganda and desperate bid to cover the wrongdoing of their presidential candidate whose integrity they have so much flaunted.

According to him, “It has been brought to our attention that a number of online publications and newspapers have published a false story suggesting that General Aliyu Gusau, the Minister of Defence, has defended General Buhari on the certificate issue and has said that they attended Katsina College together.

“This is pure falsehood and crass disinformation, and it is indicative of the type of shameless desperation and propaganda that the opposition are now indulging in.
“Not only did General Gusau not attend any school with General Buhari or go to Katsina College but he has also never sought to defend or absolve him in the on-going controversy about his school certificate.

“We urge the Nigerian people to be very wary of the antics of the opposition when it comes to this and virtually all other matters; and we encourage them to continue to insist that General Buhari should stop clutching at straws and prove that he is the man of integrity that he claims to be by producing his school certificate.”

The Coalition of Concern Lawyers in Nigeria (CCLN) the same day also picked holes in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate, calling on the Inspector General of Police (IG) to investigate and prosecute those found guilty of perjury.

It equally called on the IG to investigate and prosecute anybody found to have, forged the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).

The group, which said it was not sponsored by any individual or organisation, noted that its hallmarks was credible, free and fair election devoid of any criminality.

It frowned at diverse statements that greeted the authenticity of the certificate, calling for a thorough investigation of the saga.

Dr. Amaechi Nwaiwu (SAN), made the call at a press briefing in Abuja.
Saying: “Nigerians have the right to ensure that persons contesting to gorven them are qualified. Where there is an allegation of forgery, the Nigerian Police have the powers on a complaint to investigate, interrogate and prosecute any person found to have committed forgery of a document or committed perjury.

“The Nigerian Police, under Section 214 of the constitution and the Police Act, have the powers and duty to investigate and prosecute such offences.

“We call on the IG to investigate, interrogate and prosecute any person upon a complaint found to have committed perjury or forgery of school certificate.”
Nwaiwu added that having relied on the school certificate, it has to be produced and not only a statement of result.

“We also call on the IG to investigate, interrogate and prosecute upon complaints on persons found to have forged the PVCs

“A fundamental aspect of our constitutional democracy is to create electoral process with credible voters’ register, right to vote and freedom to vote.

“Freedom entails the voters’ right to have the franchise recognised through registration and possession of PVC to cast their vote freely, decide how to vote and expect their ballot papers to be counted accurately,” Nwaiwu added.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/cambridge-university-hausa-language-not-offered-in-1961-exams/200101/

We already know all these.
Yoruba was the only indigenous language offered then.
Buhari is a FORGER not a SOLDIER.

ok

No b today nah, everybody knows dat 1. Even Affidavit-swearing Peoples Congress can attest to it..

Befitting response to thisday and its band of poorly tutored readers.

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/certificate-saga-hausa-language-was-not-offered-in-1961-says-report/200173/

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Adoki Achine • 5 hours ago
This man and ThisDay call this piece of mumbo jumbo 'research report'? You are carrying out a RESEARCH on education curriculum of Northern Nigeria in 1961 and you base your findings on entirely unrelated 'evidence' from South-Western and South-Eastern curriculum? So because the Banjo/Taiwo reports of 1961/1968 recommended the review of curriculum in the South West and the Dike/Ivan Ikoku reports of 1959/1964 in the South East, then there must have been a similar report on the Northern curriculum during the same period? What kind of logic is that? And you call that a 'research' report? DRAWING CONCLUSIONS FROM COMPLETELY UNRELATED EVIDENCE? So why don't you even try to research the education curriculum in Northern Nigeria, since that is the main subject of your conclusions? And you call yourself a professor? It is no wonder our universities continue to produce the kind of graduates that we have today. 'Professor' A. A. Adeyinka!!!

And for ThisDay, I just pity you people calling yourself a news media. These clowns called Chuks Okocha and Jayieola Andrews must really be the most incompetent lot I have seen in the system in a while. They hand you this kind of document and you go ahead to make such JUDGEMENT as "the research report has punched holes in the claims by Buhari..." and that "the research report has further chipped away at the credibility of the statement of result released by the college"? What kind of journalists are you? I heard that Mr. Obaigbena does not pay you people, but do you have to descend so low? Can't you people find something else to do with your lives?

Definitely not the finest hour for Nigeria's fifth estate...

Hu hahaha, this is so so interesting
WAEC fa

coughs***clears throat...who cares does that change the exchange rate of 208 to 1 dollar?

Paid propaganda only serves to make GMB more loved because at the end of each round, he comes out vindicated.

And there was no Standard 6 then.

Splashme:
eGuerrilla, you guys are lying.

What you posted here is in reproduced eventhough you embedded "Cambridge Assessment" in the website.
Show us the direct response

You are one of the poorly tutored readers I mentioned in my earlier post.
How did the systematic rot get to the point where the average Nigerian youth is now incapable of logical thinking?
I am hoping someone would help me understand what really happened.

So the book referenced below, which was written in 1967, also sells a lie about the languages offered right after independence - a time when the different regions were determined to enshrine indigenization policies?

Elevate the debate bro, and stop showcasing vacuous reasoning to the rest of the world.

Buhari,itz never late yet,why not enroll for WAEC now in one of those Almanjiri schools open by Jonathan,then u come back after 2019 to contest....U are not qualify simply means U ARE NOT GOOD TO GO!!!!......no be those days where Naija no dey checkmate those things wella,our eye don red now,u hear me so?

Here is the link to Cambridge Assessment Website's publication on Nigerian Presidential Candidate

http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/


Now, tell me, will it be wrong if Buhari closes ThisDay Newspapers after May 29 for maliciously mis-informing the public and defamation of character of the person of General Muhammadu Buhari?

How I wish I have the opportunity to interrogate "BUHARI OLUWOLE" on behalf of his CERTIFICATE, I know he will cry!

I no go like make Buhari commit suicide before febuary 14. I want to see him cry again. With all this things, the man fit die before hm time.

May God Almighty forgive u all.

SeverusSnape:
We already know all these.
Yoruba was the only indigenous language offered then.
Buhari is a FORGER not a SOLDIER.

The University of Cambridge Local Examinations
Syndicate (UCLES), now known as Cambridge
Assessment, in response to requests to
authenticate a candidate’s exam certificate, today
said: “We can only confirm or verify results at the
direct request of or with the permission of a
candidate.”
“This is in accordance with the provisions of the
Data Protection Act 1998 and section 40 of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.”
The organisation also confirmed that according to
the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers,
including those for Hausa were set for the West
African School Certificate.

MMMuazu:
The University of Cambridge Local Examinations
Syndicate (UCLES), now known as Cambridge
Assessment, in response to requests to
authenticate a candidate’s exam certificate, today
said: “We can only confirm or verify results at the
direct request of or with the permission of a
candidate.”
“This is in accordance with the provisions of the
Data Protection Act 1998 and section 40 of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.”
The organisation also confirmed that according to
the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers,
including those for Hausa were set for the West
African School Certificate.

Certificate Saga: Hausa Language Was Not Offered in 1961, Says Report

26 Jan 2015

Despite the release of the school certificate result of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the controversy over the released result has not subsided.

A research report by an educationist and Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Ilorin, A. A. Adeyinka, has punched holes in the claims by Buhari that he sat for and got a credit pass in Hausa Language from the Provincial College (now Government College), Katsina, in 1961.

Adeyinka, in the report titled: “Major Trends in Curriculum Development in Nigeria”, said no school in Nigeria offered subjects in local languages at the time.

His research report had further chipped away the credibility of the Statement of Result released by the college to support Buhari’s claim that he sat for the secondary school certificate examination in 1961.

According to Adeyinka’s research findings available at www.unilorin.edu, prior to the emergence of a centralised government of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon from 1966 to 1975, all regions in Nigeria had different academic curriculums.

He added that it was only the Western Region that offered a local language as a subject in both its curriculum and school certificate examinations.

The university don said it was after a central government was formed and a universal educational curriculum was developed and adopted that other local languages were included in school curriculums in 1974.

He listed subjects in the academic curriculum to include English Language, Biology, Commerce, Principles of Accounts, Health Science, Literature in English, Bible Knowledge, History, Geography, Yoruba, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

According to Adeyinka, Yoruba was included in the academic curriculum following the recommendations of a commission set up to review the academic curriculum for schools in the then Western region.

He wrote: “In the former Western region, for example, both the Banjo Report (1961) and the Taiwo Report (1968) recommended the revision of the school syllabuses and the introduction of a new structure of education.

“The Banjo report specifically recommended a new model for secondary education, comprising junior and senior secondary schools. The curriculum of the former should be comprehensive.

“Similar recommendations were made in the East (Dike 1959, Ivan Ikoku, 1964).”
In the same vein, the Director Media, Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, claimed that he came across an e-mail dated Thursday, January 22, 2015 from the institution’s Archives Delivery Service Officer, Jacky Emerson, to one Sodiq Alabi who requested confirmation if the examination body offered Hausa Language in the 1961 West African Certificate Examination it organised.

Emerson, in his one-sentence reply, said: “According to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa, were not included for West African School Certificate.”

He had pointed out a number of inconsistencies in the document at a press conference last Thursday in Abuja.

Among other things, Fani-Kayode pointed out the alteration on Mathematics, which he said Buhari must have failed, adding that since that was the case, he should not have been enlisted in the military as a commissioned officer, having failed to satisfy the requirement of pass at credit level in Mathematics.

He said at best, Buhari should have been enlisted as a non-commissioned officer.
He had also questioned the recent passport photograph of Buhari on the statement of result (which is not a certified true copy) purportedly issued by the Ministry of Education, Katsina State; the “1961” date at the top of the document which conflicted with the “2015” date signed by the Principal of Government College (Pilot) Katsina, whose name was not stated in the document.

Meanwhile, Fani-Kayode has also faulted reports which claimed that the Minister of Defence, Gen. Aliyu Gusau, said Buhari passed his Cambridge/WASCE examination in 1961 and that they attended Katsina College together.

Fani-Kayode, in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, said the report was part of the opposition’s propaganda and desperate bid to cover the wrongdoing of their presidential candidate whose integrity they have so much flaunted.

According to him, “It has been brought to our attention that a number of online publications and newspapers have published a false story suggesting that General Aliyu Gusau, the Minister of Defence, has defended General Buhari on the certificate issue and has said that they attended Katsina College together.

“This is pure falsehood and crass disinformation, and it is indicative of the type of shameless desperation and propaganda that the opposition are now indulging in.
“Not only did General Gusau not attend any school with General Buhari or go to Katsina College but he has also never sought to defend or absolve him in the on-going controversy about his school certificate.

“We urge the Nigerian people to be very wary of the antics of the opposition when it comes to this and virtually all other matters; and we encourage them to continue to insist that General Buhari should stop clutching at straws and prove that he is the man of integrity that he claims to be by producing his school certificate.”

The Coalition of Concern Lawyers in Nigeria (CCLN) the same day also picked holes in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate, calling on the Inspector General of Police (IG) to investigate and prosecute those found guilty of perjury.

It equally called on the IG to investigate and prosecute anybody found to have, forged the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).

The group, which said it was not sponsored by any individual or organisation, noted that its hallmarks was credible, free and fair election devoid of any criminality.

It frowned at diverse statements that greeted the authenticity of the certificate, calling for a thorough investigation of the saga.

Dr. Amaechi Nwaiwu (SAN), made the call at a press briefing in Abuja.
Saying: “Nigerians have the right to ensure that persons contesting to gorven them are qualified. Where there is an allegation of forgery, the Nigerian Police have the powers on a complaint to investigate, interrogate and prosecute any person found to have committed forgery of a document or committed perjury.

“The Nigerian Police, under Section 214 of the constitution and the Police Act, have the powers and duty to investigate and prosecute such offences.

“We call on the IG to investigate, interrogate and prosecute any person upon a complaint found to have committed perjury or forgery of school certificate.”
Nwaiwu added that having relied on the school certificate, it has to be produced and not only a statement of result.

“We also call on the IG to investigate, interrogate and prosecute upon complaints on persons found to have forged the PVCs

“A fundamental aspect of our constitutional democracy is to create electoral process with credible voters’ register, right to vote and freedom to vote.

“Freedom entails the voters’ right to have the franchise recognised through registration and possession of PVC to cast their vote freely, decide how to vote and expect their ballot papers to be counted accurately,” Nwaiwu added.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/cambridge-university-hausa-language-not-offered-in-1961-exams/200101/

They should check the result of other people who sat for 1961 WASSCE & verify if they had Hausa language recorded on their statement of result. Simple

Gbagaun!

Just in case you missed it.

According to him, “It has been brought to our attention that a number of online publications and newspapers have published a false story suggesting that General Aliyu Gusau, the Minister of Defence, has defended General Buhari on the certificate issue and has said that they attended Katsina College together.

“This is pure falsehood and crass disinformation, and it is indicative of the type of shameless desperation and propaganda that the opposition are now indulging in.
“Not only did General Gusau not attend any school with General Buhari or go to Katsina College but he has also never sought to defend or absolve him in the on-going controversy about his school certificate.

APC falsehood falling one after another.

getting more interesting

eGuerrilla:
Definitely not the finest hour for Nigeria's fifth estate...

Hausa Language was set, not offered.

PassingShot:
Paid propaganda only serves to make GMB more loved because at the end of each round, he comes out vindicated.

No, he is tarnishing his reputation. APC stallwarts are slowly avoiding him.

You're still on this?
Go to court...
The truth is, you can't even go to court because the court are on strike....Your foolish drunkineess, lord clueless,ensures that...

Anyways, go to international court then, or shut up forever

SLIDEwaxie:
You're still on this?
Go to court...
The truth is, you can't even go to court because the court are on strike....Your foolish drunkineess, lord clueless,ensures that...

Anyways, go to international court then, or shut up forever

Yes, we are still on this. A dropout illiterate liar will not rule us.

AlfaSeltzer:


Hausa Language was set, not offered.

Why don't you do the most gracious thing and offer one iota of evidence to support the retarrd#ed musings which you continue to rehash ad infinitum?

Then again, it is not for nothing that our people say: "the nose bridge is a long way off from the forehead"

AlfaSeltzer:


Yes, we are still on this. A dropout illiterate liar will not rule us.

go yo court bro...u're loosing...big time

SLIDEwaxie:
go yo court bro...u're loosing...big time

ok

eGuerrilla:


Why don't you do the most gracious thing and offer one iota of evidence to support the retarrd#ed musings which you continue to rehash ad infinitum?

Then again, it is not for nothing that our people say: "the nose bridge is a long way off from the forehead"

Asking people to prove a negative may work for religious fraud but in real life, we are wiser.