I still do remember growing up, my father waking, and shaving with the BBC. Against a background of the bleep-bleep-bleep signal of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s World Service, he would do his private chores, and prepare for work. The BBC Foreign Service having fortified his appetite for “real news,” he would then switch to the Local Radio for Morning News.

This was unwavering ritual. For that generation, there was some naïve sense that the BBC carried real news and was committed to pietist truth. I did too for many years. Until I began to see the underbelly of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The small chinks in its armour which became in large part, wide cracks that left me both puzzled and annoyed.

Many of us chose to enter the profession of journalism on the key faith in the power of journalism, not to right wrongs, but to tell the truth, and offer people the opportunity to right wrongs. I do not think the BBC is committed to truth. It became clear that the BBC perfected the subtle dance between what it has always avowed as its independence and neutrality, and its stakes within the establishment, and the protection of the key interests of the British Empire.

The BBC was never truthful or neutral. It was always embedded with the establishment. For instance, it was the outlet for top British propaganda and vehicle for Imperial disinformation. As the sociologist Tom Mills wrote in his very revealing book, The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, the BBC World Service is “deeply embedded in the foreign policy, Security and Intelligence apparatus of the British state.” It is largely funded by the Foreign Office. The BBC was for instance in close partnership with the British Information and Research Department (IRD) which used it wittingly as an outlet for unattributable propaganda.

The IRD was a very intriguing part of the British Foreign Office. In one of the intriguing exposes of the IRD in the British press, the Guardian of London revealed that the IRD’s Special Education unit (SEU) crafted the IRDs “most sensitive operations,” ran its propaganda missions around the world against organizations or people deemed to be threats to British interests, and worked closely with the British M16. See a link to the story here: <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/revealed-the-secret-british-plan-to-keep-italys-communists-from-power> The BBC was its conduit in these operations.

A very important example of these operations which the Guardian gives was the June 7, 1976 BBC hack job on its Current Affairs program, Panorama,against the Italian Communist Party – the Partito Communista Italiano (PCI), the largest Communist Party in Europe which it reported was “on the threshold of power” in Italy.

The problem was that the British government and its allies did not want the Communists to come to power in Italy, so they deployed the IRD and the BBC to subvert the credibility of the party and to delegitimize its leader, Enrico Berlinguer, through well-crafted messaging and public disinformation tactics. Its conduit was the BBC. According to the Guardian of London, using the BBC and its tactics of disinformation, the IRD incited mass murder in Indonesia in the 1960s, and ran a secret and effective smear campaign against the Kenya leftist politician, Odinga Odinga.

In fact, one of the very important examples which the Guardian unsurprisingly omitted, was the use of the IRD by the Foreign office between 1947 right up to the declaration of the Republic in 1963, to attack and subvert the leader of the Nigerian Nationalist Movement, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, and the Nationalist party, the NCNC. It did not end there: in 1966, the IRD in a most virulent campaign of disinformation launched against the January 15, 1966 coup delegitimized it by calling it “an Ibo(sic) coup.” Again, using the BBC, it launched a campaign of calumny that instigated the pogrom of the Igbo in the North.

But many Nigerians however, still cotton on to the BBC, and have been stuck with the impression it gave, of providing the “real news.” The unvarnished truth. But increasingly, with a more critical and discerning population, the status of the BBC as the to-go place for public truth is now under serious scrutiny, and therefore in rapid decline.

We now know that the history of the BBC is quite dark. It is the first purveyor and practitioner of what we now generally call “fake news.” This fact was driven home for me this week, as the “Global Disinformation” desk of the BBC World Service circulated what some Nigerians say can only be the fakest of “fake news:” that there is no evidence that Mr. Tinubu forged his Chicago State University records submitted to Nigeria’s INEC.

The report authored by Chiagozie Nwonwu, Fauziyya Turkur, and Olaronke Alo for the BBC, absolved Mr. Tinubu of any culpability with forgery. The BBC report of course outraged Nigerians for its scurrility. The BBC had done a hatchet job aimed at shoring Tinubu against his opponents. There is no other word for it. This was an attempt by the BBC World Service to deodorize dog shit for Mr. Tinubu. But luckily, these are different times.

Institutions like the BBC no longer have the monopolies of access to vital sources of public information. Transcripts of the court deposition on the Tinubu case is now publicly available on various social media platforms, and the evidence is there: the CSU certificate which Mr. Bola Ahmed (or is it Adekunle now?) submitted to INEC was forged, and as the registrar of the Chicago State University averred, was not issued to Tinubu by the University. This fact is clear and established.

Whatever else the Supreme Court to which this evidence has been submitted does with it, is now a different matter. But the BBC was not wrong – it was brazenly dishonest in making claims about Tinubu and the veracity of his certificate. Mr. Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the PDP did not waste his time. He secured a clear declaration by the CSU over the authenticity of the Tinubu certificates. He pursued this matter to the US courts in Chicago.

Nigerians are already familiar with the drama leading to the courts order to the Chicago State University to release Tinubu’s academic records to Atiku Abubakar. CSU hedged, and dawdled, but it ultimately was deposed, and the questions before it include: Did Bola Ahmed Tinubu attend the Chicago State University in Illinois? Did he graduate from the Chicago State University? What credentials did he use in getting admission into CSU? At the core of these questions are the concerns about Tinubu’s dodgy identity.

Who is Bola Tinubu? It is both intriguing and problematic that the identity of the man who now sits on the desk of the President of the Federation of Nigeria is in doubt and it is foggy. It continues to shift. Tinubu is like the wall gecko. When you catch it by the tail, it leaves its tail behind. He is a national security nightmare. But the problem with state capture is that those who capture the state dismantle or corrupt its strategic institutions.

This is precisely what has happened to Nigeria’s National Security and Information Services: they have been so strategically degraded, that not a single agency – the Police Intelligence and Criminal Investigations Directorate, the Department of Military Intelligence; the Nigerian Foreign Intelligence Services, or the Department of State Security, the key secret service agencies charged with protecting the strategic soul of the nation, andspecifically prevent the capture of the state by deleterious forces domestic or foreign, ever did their jobs.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/the-british-broadcasting-confusion-bbc-by-obi-nwakanma/

Ethnic bigots incoming

BBC did a very dirty job.
It was done by them in a very wrong time. When information and copies of US court deposition is everywhere.

Whoever read the novel should please summarize in 2 sentences.

The BBC is right. Tinubu did NOT forge his documents. But, there's evidence Peter Obi or is it Onwubiase or Onwubiasi, may have used someone else's GCE results to gain admission into UNN.

Obi Nwakanma AKA Obi person

Anybody that doesn't hail Obi and bring down Tinubu must be canceled... If head too flat, the head go compress brain. That's what I'm seeing here

The questions honest people should be asking,

Are there third party vendors or private establishments that are licensed by CSU to provide services such as issuance of diploma to individuals?

Did Tinubu get a replacement diploma from one of these vendors or companies?

If the answer is yes then there’s no forgery anywhere.

I know that even some government agencies give licenses to private companies or third party vendors to provide such services like criminal records, drivers licenses etc and this is different from how it is done in Nigeria but doesn’t mean that anyone who patronises those third parties are engaged in forgery.

This issue is just being overblown.

Will the court admit and consider the BBC report in court?, The answer is NO, only the csu has the power to authenticate or deny that certificate and that they have done.

It's only confusing to obidients.
The same obidients that 'don't understand' 25% fct votes.
The same obidients that blvd buhari was a clone..
What else will they now understand

The certificate that tinubu applied for is still at CSU he rather went and got another one from 3rd party vendor with some difference from the original one, if that is not forgery then I don't know what that is.

By the way what happened to the primary, secondary and University of Chicago results he submitted years ago, that brought the death of Gani, that one has been swept under the carpet, judiciary in Nigeria is rubbish, a man lied under oath and still later became the president.

Cretins that have insulted even God because of their electoral loss do not know they have been condemned to eternal lamentations and grumbling.

babajero:
The certificate that tinubu applied for is still at CSU he rather went and got another one from 3rd party vendor with some difference from the original one, if that is not forgery then I don't know what that is.

By the way what happened to the primary, secondary and University of Chicago results he submitted years ago, that brought the death of Gani, that one has been swept under the carpet, judiciary in Nigeria is rubbish, a man lied under oath and still later became the president.

Oblivious Obidient Mumu, basking with pride in gross ignorance.

Burob:
Oblivious Obidient Mumu, basking with pride in gross ignorance.

Please what happened to the primary, secondary and University of Chicago results he submitted years ago?

Tranquill:
The questions honest people should be asking,

Are there third party vendors or private establishments that are licensed by CSU to provide services such as issuance of diploma to individuals?

Did Tinubu get a replacement diploma from one of these vendors or companies?

If the answer is yes then there’s no forgery anywhere.

I know that even some government agencies give licenses to private companies or third party vendors to provide such services like criminal records, drivers licenses etc and this is different from how it is done in Nigeria but doesn’t mean that anyone who patronises those third parties are engaged in forgery.

This issue is just being overblown.

And if the answer Is no?

You should have completed that part because you and I know the answer is no.

The problem Is when you've held so much power and control over lagosians and some yoruba you think you can get away with a lot of things. Till you get to a point it will choke you.

Also he is still living in the past and things people are ignorant. That's why during campaign he was saying I will pay waec fee as one of the promises, like that is what Nigerians need.

He clearly isn't in touch with the modern world, the ease of getting information.

The rime he claimed he graduated from government college ibadan, the old boys said he was never there as there was no way they wont remember him.

BBC is a propaganda arm of the British government. They use it to project certain things they believe is in their own interests, regardless of the actual facts.

They can continue doing their hatchet job but no one takes them serious anymore.

babajero:
The certificate that tinubu applied for is still at CSU he rather went and got another one from 3rd party vendor with some difference from the original one, if that is not forgery then I don't know what that is.

By the way what happened to the primary, secondary and University of Chicago results he submitted years ago, that brought the death of Gani, that one has been swept under the carpet, judiciary in Nigeria is rubbish, a man lied under oath and still later became the president.

Tinubu was never qualified to collect any graduation certificate because he didn't complete his study. He failed English 222 which was a prerequisite to successful completion of study and he was told to retake it, but he never did.

The rogue went and did fake oluwole. He had no certificate at CSU because he didn't complete his study and that's why he never requested for any!

The BBC is an agent for British interests
So no surprise that it is supporting a certain Tinubu
The caging of Nigeria is good for His Majesty
Lord Lugard emphasized my point

The news from BBC was very insensitive. Taking Nigerians for fools.

Or how would you justify the fact that BBC never followed nor reported the entire Chicago Court Proceedings on the Tinubu Certificate saga only for them to wake from their pretended slumber after the CSU record had been made public to do a biased fact check and completely exonerate Tinubu of any wrongdoing in the process.

Why did it not matter to BBC that from CSU records, Tinubu claimed to have attended Government College, Lagos and graduated from the school in 1970 while the school was actually established in 1974?Why did it not matter to BBC that from CSU records, Tinubu now has up to 3 dates of birth?

Why did it not matter to BBC that speaking at Chatham House in 2022, Tinubu told the world that he had gotten his “Original Replacement Degree Certificates” from CSU only for “Third Party Vendors” to start flying around after Tinubu’s certificate had been released to the public and a lot of discrepancies noticed?

https://www.nairaland.com/7877205/tinubu-certificate-why-bbc-wrong#126404368

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killsmith:
The news from BBC was very insensitive. Taking Nigerians for fools.

That’s it right there…

They took us for a fool.

A case we followed and a deposition we read, they wanted to tell us that what we read is wrong and they are right.

Thunder fire them!

They’ve lost credibility forever as far as I’m concerned.

MrEverest:


Tinubu was never qualified to collect any graduation certificate because he didn't complete his study. He failed English 222 which was a prerequisite to successful completion of study and he was told to retake it, but he never did.

The rogue went and did fake oluwole. He had no certificate at CSU because he didn't complete his study and that's why he never requested for any!

And that is the fact. It is just that the judiciary that is supposed to fight criminality in Nigeria is part of the criminals.

Penguin2:

That’s it right there…

They took us for a fool.

A case we followed and a deposition we read, they wanted to tell us that what we read is wrong and they are right.

Thunder fire them!

They’ve lost credibility forever as far as I’m concerned.

Thunder will not fire anybody.
Nigerians should take real action.
Personally I'll be boycotting the Premier league. I can't keep giving my hard-earned penny to these satanic criminals.

Racoon:
"Transcripts of the court deposition on the Tinubu case is now publicly available on various social media platforms. The evidence is there.

The CSU certificate which Mr. Bola Ahmed (or is it Adekunle now?) submitted to INEC was forged, and as the registrar of the Chicago State University averred, was not issued to Tinubu by the University. This fact is clear and established...."

dis one don kolo with tinubu matta....

Tinubu will rule your lineage for period of 8 years.. dis your noice lead u to no where except doom

killsmith:

Thunder will not fire anybody.
Nigerians should take real action.
Personally I'll be boycotting the Premier league. I can't keep giving my hard-earned penny to these satanic criminals.

Football?🤔

Naaaah

babajero:
The certificate that tinubu applied for is still at CSU he rather went and got another one from 3rd party vendor with some difference from the original one, if that is not forgery then I don't know what that is.

By the way what happened to the primary, secondary and University of Chicago results he submitted years ago, that brought the death of Gani, that one has been swept under the carpet, judiciary in Nigeria is rubbish, a man lied under oath and still later became the president.

No one expect IPOB cannibals to have sense

Deltafirstson:
BBC did a very dirty job.
It was done by them in a very wrong time. When information and copies of US court deposition is everywhere.

As e dey pain you, e dey sweet us
As e dey sweet us, e dey pain you.

Tranquill:
The questions honest people should be asking,

Are there third party vendors or private establishments that are licensed by CSU to provide services such as issuance of diploma to individuals?

Did Tinubu get a replacement diploma from one of these vendors or companies?

If the answer is yes then there’s no forgery anywhere.

I know that even some government agencies give licenses to private companies or third party vendors to provide such services like criminal records, drivers licenses etc and this is different from how it is done in Nigeria but doesn’t mean that anyone who patronises those third parties are engaged in forgery.

This issue is just being overblown.

IPOB cannibals are just being very ST00PEED with this forgery and they know deep down in their heart that there was no forgery assound Tinubu's certificate.

Same way Obi and the IPOB cannibals knew Obi lost the general elections but they kept on spreading fake lies and attacking, Tinubu, INEC, INEC chairman, judiciary etc untill the Judiciary nailed them.

These same people a few years ago told a very wicked and malicious lie against Buhari that he was dead and that a clone called Jubrin from Sudan is in Asso Rock and ruling Nigeria

This same people used to tell lies that the late Premiere Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was a gorro selling illiterate who could not speak English and that the Europeans shouldn't have handed power to him and that power should have been handed over to Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Penguin2:

Football?🤔

Naaaah

You prefer to keep complaining and moaning on the Internet

richie240:
It's only confusing to obidients.
The same obidients that 'don't understand' 25% fct votes.
The same obidients that blvd buhari was a clone..
What else will they now understand

This same people used to tell lies that the late Premiere Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was a gorro selling illiterate who could not speak English and that the Europeans shouldn't have handed power to him and that power should have been handed over to Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Many don't know who drug barrons are. These Escobars can use anything to buy there way. I am sure mr Ebola have enriched thier pockets with brown envelopes