[size=14pt]As Senate re-run election approaches, Iyiola Omisore's post-graduate degree generates new controversy [/size]
WRITTEN BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK    
THURSDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2009 13:07





Ex-Senator Iyiola Omisore



Just as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun State on Wednesday fixed December 5 for the court ordered re-run election for the Senate seat previously occupied by Iyiola Omisore of the PDP, a new controversy has surfaced over the authenticity and veracity of Omisore’s degree.


Omisore parades a Master’s degree in Building Services Engineering Management, which he obtained from Brunel University in the United Kingdom in July 2004, according to an academic report obtained by Saharareporters and signed by Dr. R H M Wakelin, the Chairman of the Board of Examiners in the course.

The course description on Brunel website shows the “Building Services Engineering Management MSc at the institution to be a 3-5 years self study without attendance course,” permitting the student to "follow a structured programme of self-study at home or at work."



Omisore's Academic Report from Brunel University



If this is how Omisore obtained his M.Sc degree in 2004, that would mean he was undertaking the course while in prison over the murder of the former Oyo State Governor and later Attorney-General of Nigeria, Bola Ige, in Ibadan.  That assassination has never been solved.

An additional question would be how he was able to take his examinations.  The structure of the Brunel University self-study programme states that while students can study at their own pace using  a study pack comprising text books and CD-ROMs, they have to take annual examinations, in May.  Once registered, a student can take his examinations in his country of residence.  The university implements the process through "an extensive network of organisations (Universities, Colleges and British Council Offices) throughout the world" who provide invigilation, the cost of which is paid by the student.  It is unclear whether such services are made available in the context of incarceration, as Omisore was in 2004, and how.

Efforts to have the former senator speak about his MSc degree have been difficult, but  Stephanie Berke, who is a Clerical Officer in the Examinations and Conferment’s section of the Brunel University schools’ registry, responded to our inquiry, asking that we obtain Omisore’s consent to enable them release his academic records to us.

Today, Omisore refused to grant that consent.  He told Saharareporters to wait until next week upon his arrival in Abuja to produce a copy of the certificate and the roll call of graduands.

He refused to clarify the pertinent issues relating to when he took the course and how he was able to continue while he was in detention.  Saharareporters also wanted to know specifically when he completed the study, whether he used the method of self-study or attended classes, but he was non-committal.  About the completion date, he gave us 2005, but the academic record clearly shows 2004.

It would be recalled that on October 30, 2009, the Appeal Court, sitting in Ibadan, removed Omisore from the Nigerian senate, following the successful the petition filed by Action Congress (AC) candidate, Jide Omoworare.


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one of these days we'll find out who your backers are and who sent you here.

same goes for your yellow journalists.

The cyclone is here again. Did Omisore study for his masters degree in jail?


I forgot that he won election in jail, so he may have obtained his masters in jail too. The only thing he didn't achieve in jail is impregnating tpia.

OBVIOUS:

Sahara Reporters are RUMOUR MONGERS and are just as fraudulent as the people whom they report on.

But if the certificate shown above is real, how did he get it since you and I know he was in jail then?

Aloy~Emeka:

But if the certificate shown above is real, how did he get it since you and I know he was in jail then?

This has nothing to do with Omisore--- it has to do with the reporter of the news--- I HATE SAHARA REPORTERS.

Do you know how many more bankers and politicians walking around with fake degrees ?

OBVIOUS:

This has nothing to do with Omisore--- it has to do with the reporter of the news--- I HATE SAHARA REPORTERS.

Do you know how many more bankers and politicians walking around with fake degrees ? 

Does that make it right? Because there are batallions with fake degrees in Nigeria, we should turn a blind eye about it?. If you criticized the man who married his daughter, why can't you criticize this one abi no be the same crime?

OBVIOUS:

This has nothing to do with Omisore--- it has to do with the reporter of the news--- I HATE SAHARA REPORTERS.

Do you know how many more bankers and politicians walking around with fake degrees ?

so because bankers and politicians are moving around with fake degrees omisore should not be exposed?

asha 80:

so because bankers and politicians are moving around with fake degrees omisore should not be exposed?

Dont put words in your mouth---- reread my post.

Aloy~Emeka:

Does that make it right? Because there are batallions with fake degrees in Nigeria, we should turn a blind eye about it?. If you criticized the man who married his daughter, why can't you criticize this one abi no be the same crime?

I have not questioned whether or not he should be exposed. I have questioned the credibility of the Sahara Reporters.

Re-read my post about the man with the daughter---- the man did what he did for his grandkids.

OBVIOUS:

I have not questioned whether or not he should be exposed. I have questioned the credibility of the Sahara Reporters.

Re-read my post about the man with the daughter---- the man did what he did for his grandkids.

You don't need credibility of sahara reporters for this one unless Omisore has no masters degree obtained during the time he was in jail for murder.

Aloy~Emeka:

You don't need credibility of sahara reporters for this one unless Omisore has no masters degree obtained during the time he was in jail for murder.

OBVIOUS:

I have not questioned whether or not he should be exposed. I have questioned the credibility of the Sahara Reporters.

Re-read my post about the man with the daughter---- the man did what he did for his grandkids.

Umm at the expense of the nation and more capable office holders? i don't buy that excuse.

bawomolo:

Umm at the expense of the nation and more capable office holders?  i don't buy that excuse.

LOL i am speaking about another thread--- not this. We should know that there is no such thing as capable office holders, people get to where they are in Nigeria based on whom they know.

@OBVIOUS
Change your name and your kolomental thinking. Haba!!!!!!!!!
You are filled up with rubbish thinking.

KnowAll:

If it can be established that Omisore has not got a Masters Degree by the Institution, then he should step down from running as a Senator. To be a Senator, having a Master’s degree is not a pre-requisite. If I am not mistaken a school cert degree is the minimum qualification required.

So for the Senator to over-kill by overstating his qualification is an unnecessary intent at shoring up his already dented personality, a first or Bachelor’s degree will do fine and I hope he has that.

Exactly why they are all dull.
@Poster, men i tire o. It just goes on and on. That's why with all the qualifications i think i possess, some cheats would get a job ahead of me because they doctored their certificates.

Why Brunel University? With all the avalanche of universities in Nigeria that could still give him a degree while in prison. All these foreign maniacs, even on Nairaland, some would pose as being in Jupiter whereas they are in Oshodi.

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yes the most educated wetin

@poster
since you claimed to be a scholar let me ask u,,was it confirmed that the msc was faked.The reporter visited the school,& the school authority asked him to check back while awaiting omisore's consent.Meaning that the school knew that he was a student but only wanted his consent before releasing such information.I believe you should be a graduate,so getting inform about an alumnus shouldnt be a problem atleast everybody knows where u can get such information.this is just a propaganda

MrCrackles:

I reread your post and i didnt see any common sense in it. . . [/font]

This is coming from a little boy whom all he posts are fc.uk, cockery, dog sh*t, cock, bullocks, buttocks----
<I laugh in French>

Who doesnt know that saharareporters is a faceless propaganda tool,nothing good ever comes from them except bad news, Na today yansh dey back

~Bluetooth:

Who doesnt know that saharareporters is a faceless propaganda tool,nothing good ever comes from them except bad news, Na today yansh dey back

Well said. Apart from never writing anything good on Nigeria, they never write the actual names of their "so-called" journalists----- 

Even this article says by "The Sahara Reporters, New York"  <I laugh in Bermese> Tell me who sat down and wrote the CRAP ?

And some ignorants on nL believe their CRAP because they want to tribalize the whole gist

^^^^ not surprised though----

To all of those who cant' read : I will re-state Me No questions whethers or not Omisore get a college degree; me questions the CREDIBILITY OF THE SAHARA REPORTERS.


Sahara Reports might have started its operation in an incredulous way, but because the many scoops they have had in the past which later turned out to be true, their incredible stories have suddenly become credible story.

They are the last voice of reason and an enviable source for the exposure of the endemic decadence Nigeria has become,  just as Dele Momodu’s Ovation magazine is committed to the portrayal of the life styles and social gatherings of our ruling class, Sahara Reports has made its mark in the murky and dark act of fighting corruption, a monster that has reduced our nation to a nation of penury and abject poverty.  

Sahara Reports has become the avenue where and when 2 disgruntled thieves will readily spill the beans on each other meanwhile, and all the time restraining the magazine or the Reporters from unveiling their anonymous status. Like the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire, it will be stupid of any sensible person to ignore such allegations, when a prove is all that is needed to counter the claims.

Sahara Reports should continue with the good works.

Is this true?

@ KnowItAll: Gossip is NOT journalism, but Gossip might be good business. A good journalist stands behind their work and does not lack credibility. ---- of course I get your point.-----

@bandely
ask our learned poster if he actually confirmed this gossip

Any news about savanah bank plc? i have 500k locked up there