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Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by myweb(m): 6:25am On May 22, 2015
As at press time on Thursday, about 2,047 persons had signed a petition asking Yale University to withdraw the honorary doctorate degree awarded to Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Okonjo-Iweala had been awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters on Monday, May 18, 2015 during Yale’s Commencement ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut, alongside eight others.

The petition, which is being hosted on change.org, the world’s largest petition platform, was started by a Nigerian resident in the United States, one Sunday Iwalaiye.

When THISDAY visited the web page, it was discovered that 453 more petitions were needed to reach 2,500, which will probably prompt the organisation to consider the petition worthy of consideration.

When the petitioner kicked off the movement, the signatures had trickled in by the seconds but they have since leaped to over 2,000, with more probably on the way.

Tagged “Yale University gave its prestigious honorary doctorate degree to an undeserving Nigerian,” the petition reads in part: “There is no tangible evidence of any economic development in Nigeria under the leadership of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (sic) in all reality.

“Nigeria’s economy is still an oil-dependent economy that is debt and borrowing ridden as well as 100% consuming and importing in nature.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=120717

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Nobody: 6:26am On May 22, 2015
Well I think its the right thing to do. Why will the University be awarding certificate of mediocrity. I bet they do not know reality on ground. In another development. http://www.naijablower.com/2face-is-a-hypocrite-man-who-claims-to-be-music-stars-childhood-friend/

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by SeverusSnape(m): 6:27am On May 22, 2015
Fools who can't even achieve quater of what this woman achieved are here beefing...The deed has been done, The award will not be withdrawn, anyone who is pained can go on vacation to Sambisa game Reserve.

One senseless Caseless called this woman a "text book economist" grin, I laughed....

I wished Buhari was even a note book economist, but alas!...Our President-elect is an illiterate of high magnitude.

Now a distinguished academia and a world renowned economist is being rewarded and some nitwits are against it, Africa has a long way to go.

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by browneyes7(f): 6:27am On May 22, 2015
Hmm
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by midolian(m): 6:31am On May 22, 2015
I ll be the 2048th person to sign that petition. This woman doesn't deserve it. Even if d doctorate degree lost, no be she suppose find am angry

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by tochukwuifeduba: 6:33am On May 22, 2015
this is anti Igbo

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Nobody: 6:34am On May 22, 2015
After that, kirikiri next

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by SeverusSnape(m): 6:35am On May 22, 2015
tochukwuifeduba:
this is anti Igbo
Hmmmm....You may be right, We'll see from the kind of people who'll go against the amiable woman.
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by midolian(m): 6:36am On May 22, 2015
tochukwuifeduba:
this is anti Igbo
This one don start with hin slavish thinking..you must be one of those MASSOB guyz that demanded for the release of rev king, arguing that he was arrested because he z igbo..

I know to u, many of those executed in indonesia for drug traffikking didnt deserve to die..yes, because they are igbo undecided

Now tell me, if a woman/man from another tribe handled our economy the way okonjo did, and was awarded the same degree for ruining the economy, would you have supported it?

Until it pleases them, nothing is ever fair to them. Mtcheew

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Specialist900(m): 6:36am On May 22, 2015
Why are some people naturally anti-progress. Let this woman bask in the reward of her hardwork jor
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Nobody: 6:37am On May 22, 2015
Blacks! I don't understand them. Bitter, hateful, backward and witchy!

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by otokx(m): 6:38am On May 22, 2015
This woman finished Nigeria.

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by SeverusSnape(m): 6:39am On May 22, 2015
midolian:
This one don start with hin slavish thinking..you must be one of those MASSOB guyz that demanded for the release of rev king, arguing that he was arrested because he z igbo.
From the ethnicity of the people going against the award, I'm inclined to believe him.

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Maxymilliano(m): 6:41am On May 22, 2015
Excercise in futility ...
Yale is not Lasu bad belle people .

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Nobody: 6:42am On May 22, 2015
Maxymilliano:
Excercise in futility ...

Yale is not Lasu bad belle people .

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by 1shortblackboy: 6:42am On May 22, 2015
otokx:
This woman finished Nigeria.
its not enough to just say this. How did she finish Nigeria

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by StealthyMe(m): 6:44am On May 22, 2015
What does it profit a man to be highly educated and still act and behave like an uneducated ? lipsrsealed

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by stevnwigw1: 6:48am On May 22, 2015
this species of human called yorubas, need to be drawn in a high sea.

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by politricks: 6:50am On May 22, 2015
Please where can i sign my own. I will like to sign a thousands times if possible.
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by bewla(m): 6:53am On May 22, 2015
Enna this woman ug or she b shrek family upon all the money u thief
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by realtestament(m): 6:55am On May 22, 2015
*reading comments in progress....*

grin grin grin

#with a chilled bottle of origin
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by midolian(m): 6:57am On May 22, 2015
SeverusSnape:

From the ethnicity of the people going against the award, I'm inclined to believe him.
Let's call a rope a rope and a snake, a snake. If another person from a different tribe had handled the economy the way okonjo did, and was awarded a degree for it, wld he hav supported it? I am sure he wldn't. Nothing has improved under okonjo. She is simply not fit to handle any economy. Not even cape verde's
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by bewla(m): 6:58am On May 22, 2015
stevnwigw1:
this species of human called yorubas, need to be drawn in a high sea.
wetin con sane agbero with over load u need ur drug abi the one u need take in the night na him u take for morning
Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by RockMaxi: 7:02am On May 22, 2015

What then happens if YALE refuses to withdraw the certificate?
Will this people go ahead and sign petition against YALE as an institution or what. angry

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by KennedyNwafor(m): 7:03am On May 22, 2015
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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Nobody: 7:14am On May 22, 2015
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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by eazysally: 7:15am On May 22, 2015
SeverusSnape:
Fools who can't even achieve quater of what this woman achieved are here beefing...The deed has been done, The award will not be withdrawn, anyone who is pained can go on vacation to Sambisa game Reserve.

One senseless Caseless called this woman a "text book economist" grin, I laughed....

I wished Buhari was even a note book economist, but alas!...Our President-elect is an illiterate of high magnitude.

Now a distinguished academia and a world renowned economist is being rewarded and some nitwits are against it, Africa has a long way to go.

U see!! U started your points well but the moment u mentioned buhari I bet u, u lost it, how does buhari relates to this issue. Don't u think as an african its u who have a longer way to go? Bkos u just derailed off point. The chronic problem is that ppl like u, always mention buhari in any issues else u won't be happy. Wake up from ur slumber bro and accept the reality of ur incoming president or u keep hating while High blood pressure will be ur best friend forever.

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by gesundheit: 7:21am On May 22, 2015
SeverusSnape:
Fools who can't even achieve quater of what this woman achieved are here beefing...The deed has been done, The award will not be withdrawn, anyone who is pained can go on vacation to Sambisa game Reserve.

One senseless Caseless called this woman a "text book economist" grin, I laughed....

I wished Buhari was even a note book economist, but alas!...Our President-elect is an illiterate of high magnitude.

Now a distinguished academia and a world renowned economist is being rewarded and some nitwits are against it, Africa has a long way to go.


Yes okonjo iwela is not only a textbook economist but also an imf stooge. Look at the Nigerian economy and see how well you can rate the overrated madam. why did she join on the swf and subsidy removal gospel according to the doctrine of Christine laggard without thinking it through when Asian tigers were dropping the idea like bad habit. Many economists in Nigeria will school okonjo for free from Bismarck rewani to henry Boyle and kalu idika kalu. But in your holy book of ethnic bigotry you can never see issues in this light.

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Nobody: 7:41am On May 22, 2015
SeverusSnape:
Fools who can't even achieve quater of what this woman achieved are here beefing...The deed has been done, The award will not be withdrawn, anyone who is pained can go on vacation to Sambisa game Reserve.

One senseless Caseless called this woman a "text book economist" grin, I laughed....

I wished Buhari was even a note book economist, but alas!...Our President-elect is an illiterate of high magnitude.

Now a distinguished academia and a world renowned economist is being rewarded and some nitwits are against it, Africa has a long way to go.
Stop this nonsense u are talking about. It is only in nigeria that okonjo iwela can do this. Was she not the same person that helped nigeria to pay off her huge debt during obj administration? Why has she taking us back into another huge debt. Are u saying everything is ok with FG borrowing to pay salary? I dont know why people like u can not call a spade a spade. U dont need a prophet to tell u the state of nigerian economy now as i speak. The fact that she went to one of the best schools abroad doesnt translate to quality performance of any given task. She was just priviledged. A whole lot of nigerians can perform creditably well than her.

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by Ezenwammadu(m): 7:59am On May 22, 2015
Two thousand out of millions of nigerians........l laugh at the stupidity of the petitioners

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by leke12(m): 7:59am On May 22, 2015
Welcome development, am sure out of over 2000 pple who sign d petition, enlighten igbos and other tribes go dey there not all these local Biafran boys we have on nairaland!

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Re: Over 2,000 Nigerians Sign Petition Asking Varsity To Withdraw Okonji-iweala’s Do by midolian(m): 8:13am On May 22, 2015
leke12:
Welcome development, am sure out of over 2000 pple who sign d petition, enlighten igbos and other tribes go dey there not all these local Biafran boys we have on nairaland!
Ori e pe, padi mi

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