richybanky:
Jonathan​'s missing UNIPORT academic record. What are they hiding?

IVORY2009:
It is the era of show me your certificates, no doubt about that, what is done to Peter should equally be done to Paul, for record keeping, I guess! But be that as it may be, Premiumtimes, have done well be bring out all this allegation, against the president, the question now is, since the Freedom of Information Bill is passed, & a its free for members of the public to make us of or request, why cant Premiumtime go ahead to uniport and obtain all these inform she is seeking for? this is called investigative jorurnalism I think!

doctokwus:

Lets give Uniport all the respect they deserve;they are not hiding anyyhing,they probably never had a thesis by GEJ in the first place.

Exclusive: So we went looking for the thesis and certificates of Pres. Jonathan & Sambo – this is what we found



As the 14 February, 2015 date for the presidential elections draws closer, supporters and critics of the country’s two major parties, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been at loggerheads over the candidates of their respective parties.

In December, it crystallized into a debate over the academic credentials of both candidates, especially those of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

The president’s profile on the State House website reads thus: “He graduated with Second Class Upper honours in 1981. In 1985 and 1995 he studied for his Master’s and Ph.D degrees in Hydrobiology and Fisheries Biology, and Zoology respectively, from the same University.”

This gave him the status of being Nigeria’s most educated President ever. This was until the masses inspired by the increasing influence of social media and improved citizens participation in governance, began to ask questions.

Some began to ask, for a president with issues of eloquence and clarity of thought according to his critics, where was the evidence of his doctorate degree? For one whose campaign team has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify his main challenger over the same issue of academic qualifications, wasn’t this being a proverbial case of removing the speck in another’s eyes when a log is embedded in the accuser’s?

It caused so much of a storm; we went in search of the president’s thesis.

Mrs. Victoria Boyo was Head of Department (HOD) of Home Economics at the time when Dr. Jonathan was a lecturer at the Rivers State University of Education confirmed that he was a colleague then. “He was one of those very quiet people who couldn’t hurt a fly,” she recalls. “He hardly participated in even campus politics but as far as his qualifications are concerned, I don’t know anything.”

At the departmental library of the Department of Zoology (now Animal & Environmental Biology), a dedicated two-hour search by two volunteers combing through the shelves, yielded nothing.
The resident librarian, who joined the departmental staff in 2006 says she got to the task of arranging the projects, dissertations and theses of past students at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels as soon as she arrived. “I never once came across the president’s doctoral thesis,” she said, on condition of anonymity.

The catalog in the library was no help as it lists only theses submitted from 2007.

The entire department moved to its present location on third floor of the four-storey building that houses the entire College of Sciences in 1993 from the old Choba Park campus that at present still has the Faculty of Education. While it is possible that many copies of such documents were misplaced in the relocation, Jonathan’s could not have been among the affected ones, as he supposedly submitted it two years later, in 1995.

Another member of staff who wouldn’t want her name in print, mentioned that during an accreditation exercise and inspection tour of the school as recently as 2014, officials of the National Universities’ Commission (NUC) asked to be shown the departmental library. While inside, they asked to see the thesis of Jonathan, the department’s most prominent export ever, but it was unavailable. At the time, she says, a new HOD had just been appointed who claimed not to know the status of the missing document, leaving the NUC officials bewildered.

Interestingly, Jonathan’s Master’s dissertation obtained in 1986 in Hydro-Biology and Fisheries Biology specialization in the same course (Zoology), was also nowhere to be found – even though there are some that date back as far as 1981.

Of course, record-keeping in Nigeria is notoriously poor and many universities are yet to digitize their libraries.

Roseline Konya, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, and one-time Commissioner for Environment under the administration is currently the Dean of Graduate Studies at the university. Back in 1995, she supervised one Asim E. Eno. By virtue of the time of submission, Konya could have also supervised the President if he was a doctorate student then. Attempts to reach her proved abortive as she was “not on seat” when this reporter visited. Mails to her have been unreplied.

“Who you wan put for trouble,” someone in her office said after offering her email address, while refusing to give up her mobile number. “She will never reply you on this matter.”

Below are pictures from the thesis of one Asim E. Eno who also submitted a thesis in 1995, the same year Jonathan supposedly did his too.





The current Head of Department for Animal & Environmental Biology, Professor Florence Nduka, also could not be reached for comments as at the time of publishing this report as she was also “not on seat”.

An official enquiry submitted to the school administration has not been replied.

An extensive search online revealed a conference paper, “Identification of West African Estuarine Shrimp and Crab Larvae” which was co-written by Jonathan, G.E. with Powell, C.B. and Hart, A.I. (1985) on Aquatic Commons, the directory for publications on natural marine, estuarine, brackish and fresh water environments. At this time, the president was still a lowly lecturer in the Department of Biology at the Rivers State College of Education.

In the aforementioned 1985 paper, Jonathan self-references a publication which is in all likelihood, his Master’s dissertation. Titled “Stage 1 larvae of fresh and brackish water decapod crustaceans (excluding Natantlal) of the Niger Delta”, it is however dated 1984, two years earlier than the quoted date which is present in all his official profiles and bios. Further search on Aquatic Commons for the PhD thesis turned up no results whatsoever for the year 1995.

There were a few other conference papers online in the Web of Science journal under the name “G.E. Jonathan”. While it was not possible to determine accurately the identity of the author, they were published in 2003, 2006 and 2010 which would make him (if he were the one) a multitasker and intellectual of the highest order, combining the challenges of governance with the rigours of academic research.

No single academic journal has an online record of his research from 1985 – 1995 when Jonathan should have been very active as an academic scholar, which is why the renewed activity between 2003-2010 when he was in active politics, seems suspect.

“The first person listed is usually the author of the publication and other names are usually those of scholars or senior colleagues in the field, to give the paper weight and attract favourable reviews”, explained the Librarian. ”It is very possible that he did not author those papers.”

doctokwus:

Lets give Uniport all the respect they deserve;they are not hiding anyyhing,they probably never had a thesis by GEJ in the first place.

Premium times has probably tried, but met a brick wall in their investigations. This is the reason this organisation has invoked the FOI act.Uniport is now obliged to release those documents.

IVORY2009:


No! Are you an employee of premiumtimes? Do you have prove to that effect that Premiumtimes as an organisation have tried several times but failed to get it frm University of Port harcourt? If all these have been done by Premiumtimes, den the general public can now support their effort, but as it stands, without prove they hv not.

chukwudi44:
you dont need foi to see his certificates.there are already alvailable on the internet unlike that of one iliterate fake army General

fritiyo:

Premium times has probably tried, but met a brick wall in their . This is the reason this organisation has invoked the FOI act.Uniport is now investigations obliged to release those documents.

pls ask them to use the same FOI to bring buhari original cert from Cambridge
they should also u same FOI to knw the list of articles and text books written by prof yemi before he was award the professorship.

at least is not too much to ask snce they are too hypocrite to know the truth from afar.

doctokwus:

Does the above detailed and painstaking investigation answer your question?

Not @ all, that is why u are here to help set the records straight, is that not so?

thus no longer entitled to respect and privileges a doctorate degree provides, after he leaves office.

atlwireles:

You're lining up, like rams before a man whose only qualification for joining the army was, I AM FULANI BY TRIBE. Can your Buhari, even read a thesis and understand it?

doctokwus:

He probably can't even read the alphabet, but all we are asking for is for him that claims to have schooled up to pH d level to provide concrete proof of same or ask his alma mata to provide same.Is it too much to ask?

atlwireles:


Yes it is too much to ask, f .

doctokwus:

So u are admitting GEJ didn't complete his pH.d program;yet lays claim to having a pH.d degree?

atlwireles:



Another buhari!!!! comprehension shouldn't be a problem for you here Let's see your candidate's primary certificate, then we talk about Jonathan's WAEC. Jonathan's PhD is above you and buhari's pay grade.

doctokwus:

Does the above detailed and painstaking investigation answer your question?

You are more intelligent than this,forget all the banter here.Claiming to have something and providing verifiable evidence is another thing.Oluwole people can do a better job than that.
Honesty I want GEJ to shame people like me by giving us those details or authorize Uniport to do same and this matter would be laid to rest.
Don't 4get this has ramifications beyond politics;GEJ cud be stripped of d title of dr and thus no longer entitled to respect and privileges a doctorate degree provides, after he leaves office.

doctokwus:

If Jonathan is a pH.d degree holder its real cause for alarm and more than deserving of investigation.
When prompted buhari showed everyone his wasc exam numb and requested the schools make it available,which they did.GEJ should request same of his thesis so this too cud be laid to rest and we all move on.I ask again;is this too much to ask?

chukwudi44:


Olodo has uniport not come to back up his claims? Your stupidity knows no bounds. Btw when will Buhari get waec to authenticate his results for him

doctokwus:
[b] In what appears to be a fallout of the controversy triggered by the secondary school result of the presidential candidate of the APC, a freedom of Information, FOI, request has been sent to the university of port-harcourt to provide relevant details of the the doctorate qualifications of president Jonathan.
A civil society organisation, the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law,on behalf of one Omano Edigheji,simply described as a Nigerian citizen, is asking that Uniport provides the following as stipulated by section 2 and 4 of the FOI Act 2011.
1 the title of the president's dissertation
2 year of registration as a doctorate candidate
3 name of the doctorate supervisor (s)
4 name of his external examiner(s)
5 comments/reports of the external examiner (s) on the dissertation/thesis
6 photocopy of the dissertation/thesis
7 date of graduation from the university.[/color][/color]
The organization said its willing to bear any cost the university might incur in making the photocopies of the requested documents and for posting them.
The organisation gave the university 7 days to provide the documents.
The President will remain qualified to run even if found that he did not complete his doctorate as the minimum qualification to contest for office is secondary school certificate and that has not been called to question.

However, he might be disqualified on the ground of perjury if found that he indeed did not finish his doctorate but yet included it as part of his academic qualifications in the forms he submitted to INEC.[/b]
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/176224-group-makes-foi-request-details-jonathans-doctorate-degree.html