Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah Scrambles To Cover Up Certificate Forgery Scandal-PREMIUM TIMES
Posted: Jan, 07 2014, 8:01AM



Embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, and her associates have spent the last several hours scrambling to clean up the minister’s biographies on the Internet, following allegations that she lied about her academic qualifications, PREMIUM TIMES can report today.

News website, SaharaReporters, had Monday quoted authorities at St. Paul’s College, where Mrs. Oduah claimed she studied for Bachelor and Masters degrees, as saying they did not award her an MBA at anytime as the university does not even have a graduate school or graduate programme.

The minister is yet to respond to the allegations. Efforts by PREMIUM TIMES to get her to comment for this story were unsuccessful.

Joe Obi, her special assistant on media, did not answer or return calls.

Yakubu Datti, the spokesperson of the aviation agencies, who usually speak for her, said he was not aware of the allegation against the minister, and that he would revert after consulting the minister. He is yet to do so as at the time of publishing this.

However, this newspaper has observed an attempt by the minister and her aides to revise her profiles on the web with a view to cleaning up any reference to St. Paul’s College in her history.

Already, Mrs. Oduah’s biography on the website of the Ministry of Aviation has been revised, with references to St. Paul’s College now wiped out.



Stella Oduah's new bio without a university

“Oduah-Ogiemwonyi received her Bachelors and Masters Degree (in Accounting and Business Administration respectively) in the United States,” the new profile said of Mrs. Oduah’s education, without any reference to the university she attended.

The Wikipedia page of the minister has also been hurriedly edited, and it now has no reference to the university Mrs. Oduah attended.

All links and reference materials on the Wikipedia page capable of linking the minister to the university that has disowned her have also been deleted.

Even the minister’s personal website has been reviewed to remove any reference to St. Paul’s College.
While the links leading to Mrs. Oduah’s foundation and photographs remain active, the other principal link, which should lead to her history page, has been deactivated.

It’s unclear whether it was being edited at the backend when PREMIUM TIMES visited the site.
Mrs. Oduah had in a resume she presented to the Senate as a ministerial nominee in 2011 indicated that she obtained a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from St. Paul’s College Lawrenceville, Virginia, United States.

Stella Oduah’s new Wikipedia page without a university

But SaharaReporters quoted the President of the college as saying his university had 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 the website’s inquiries, “We don’t offer any graduate programs here.”

The school’s website also indicates clearly that Saint Paul’s College awards only baccalaureate [bachelor’s] degrees.

It is not clear yet whether the minister received an undergraduate degree from the college as she claimed. SaharaReporters said Dr. Claud Flythe, the college’s current president was unable to confirm that claim because the college had been closed since June 2013 after it lost accreditation.

Mrs. Oduah had since October being enmeshed in a a N255million armoured cars scandal in which she was accused of compelling an agency under her supervision, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to buy her two exotic bullet cars at clearly inflated prices.

The purchase of the cars generated outrage for weeks because its cost was inflated, and it was neither listed in the government-approved budget nor did it comply with the Nigeria’s public procurement law.

The House of Representatives has since asked President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the minister but the president has failed to act.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/aviation-minister-stella-oduah-scrambles-cover-certificate-forgery-scandal-premium-times

In respectable countries, her media person should have given a press statement to either confirm or refute the claims of sahara reporters. I dont understand why she would lie in the first instance.

If GEJ doesn't do anything tangible this time other than setting up another stupid committee then i give up on his government.

Smh for our president

Lmao. The minister and her aides have shown once again that they are not as smart as they think they are and these instances show it

1) Initial denial of the bulletproof cars

2) The admission of the cars but that they were for foreign guests

3) That the cars are for her security

4) The story of the attack on her convoy to justify the purchase

5) Now the clean up of her educational records.

. .

No hope for Nigeria

Her FB bio still shows St. Paul

https://www.facebook.com/Princess.Stella.Oduah.Ogiemwonyi/info

I hope the presidency would do something about this...


It's a big shame

coninse

Nice Mac you've got...

coninse: Her FB bio still shows St. Paul

https://www.facebook.com/Princess.Stella.Oduah.Ogiemwonyi/info

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ilugunboy: coninse

Nice Mac you've got...

Thanks.

Project400:

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They are cleaning up.....check back tmr....lolzzzz

Hmmm ....very simple log on to https://archive.org/ and you can spool backdated version of the minster's website and other sites she and her crew are trying to clear.

ilugunboy:

They are cleaning up.....check back tmr....lolzzzz

The page is undergoing massive reconstruction

Mynd_44:
The page is undergoing massive reconstruction

ilugunboy:

They are cleaning up.....check back tmr....lolzzzz

do you guys notice the absence of the #40lietop crew and #freshtear team?

Articles relating to Stella Oduah and St. Paul’s College.

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/10/i-have-not-seen-stella-oduah-since-2011.html
http://www.punchng.com/news/i-have-not-seen-stella-since-2011-chief-chris-ogiemwonyi-former-husband/

The Wikipedia page of the minister has also been hurriedly edited, and it now has no reference to the university Mrs. Oduah attended.

^^^
PT has exposed itself to charges of bias by making unsubstantiated allegations, which could so easily have been verified with a little effort.
As far as I can tell, at no point did her Wiki page contain any direct reference to a university or college -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stella_Oduah-Ogiemwonyi&dir=prev&action=history

Let her continue to edit all online posts refering to the university she was awarded the certificates.

She submitted her CV to the senate for screening. The submitted CV can be tracked at anytime as exhibit. Though the problem now is her trying to play a fast game at the national assembly.

eGuerrilla:

^^^
PT has exposed itself to charges of bias by making unsubstantiated allegations, which could so easily have been verified with a little effort.
As far as I can tell, at no point did her Wiki page contain any direct reference to a university or college -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stella_Oduah-Ogiemwonyi&dir=prev&action=history

http://web.archive.org/web/20131023140749/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Oduah-Ogiemwonyi

Her wikipedia page as it appeared in October, 2013. There was no mention of university or college. With that said, the rest of the report by OP is completely false.

bisi16: No hope for Nigeria

No hope for you

This woman may actually be paying for performing in a country where performance is prohibited.
I RESERVE MY COMENT!

Go and die: This woman may actually be paying for performing in a country where performance is prohibited.
I RESERVE MY COMENT!

so her so called performance justifies lying to occupy a public office, if this is true and she isn't fired then there's truly no hope for Nigeria

How is it that this same routine of embellishinh ones Resume keeps repeating itself!

If this is true then its a big shame!

Staying tuned for more details...

But seriously... 'They' are really digging up dirt for this woman oh!

lacicrips:
http://web.archive.org/web/20131023140749/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Oduah-Ogiemwonyi
Her wikipedia page as it appeared in October, 2013. There was no mention of university or college. With that said, the rest of the report by OP is completely false.

eGuerrilla:
^^^
PT has exposed itself to charges of bias by making unsubstantiated allegations, which could so easily have been verified with a little effort.
As far as I can tell, at no point did her Wiki page contain any direct reference to a university or college -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stella_Oduah-Ogiemwonyi&dir=prev&action=history

On her Wiki page, whatever version, it's been consistently asserted that:

Oduah-Ogiemwonyi received her Bachelors and Masters Degree (in Accounting and Business Administration respectively) in the United States.

Could you two e-lackeys please tell us where in the US she might have obtained those degrees? Especially as her facebook page only refers to one institution - St Paul's

Do better next time, eh.

JNdupu:



On her Wiki page, whatever version, it's been consistently asserted that:

Oduah-Ogiemwonyi received her Bachelors and Masters Degree (in Accounting and Business Administration respectively) in the United States.

Could you two e-lackeys please tell us where in the US she might have obtained those degrees? Especially as her facebook page only refers to one institution - St Paul's

Do better next time, eh.

I couldn't care less where the hell she got her degrees from. I responded because OP made several references to her wikipedia page being edited, which you've all seen to be completely false. I hate cheap lies.