Okimski:
The National Universities Commission (NUC)
has disclosed that, contrary to claims in
some quarters, any certificate obtained from
the Kaduna Satellite Campus of the Ambrose
Alli University is fraudulent and a scam.
Deputy Director Press of the NUC, Ibrahim
Yakassai disclosed, this to The Nigerian
Times when our reporter called to confirm
the status of the institution and certificates
earned from it.
He said: “It is fraudulent and a scam. There
is no such thing like Ambrose Alli University,
Kaduna Study Center. The NUC is not aware
of such.”
The Nigerian Times recalls that the Sunday
Trust Newspaper in the story, ‘Now, Hajiya
Aisha Buhari steps out’, published January
18, 2015 had reported that the beautiful wife
of General Muhammadu Buhari, the
presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), had bagged a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ambrose
Alli University, Ekpoma (Kaduna satellite
campus). She later proceeded, based on the
same degree, to obtain a Master’s degree in
International Affairs and Strategic Studies
from the Nigerian Defence Academy,
Kaduna.
The NUC in a directive in 2001, under former
Executive Secretary Peter Okebukola to all
Vice-Chancellors, had directed all university
satellite campuses to be shut down. While
most Universities complied, few others were
adamant, leading to another directive by the
present Executive Secretary Professor Julius
Okojie, to re-affirm the initial directive that
all universities in the country running
external campuses (satellite campuses) be
shut down.
A satellite campus, according to the NUC
guidelines on which basis the illegal ones
were closed down, “must not be more than
200 kilometres from the main campus,”
“must not be located in a state outside the
state in which the main campus is located,”
“must have staff of the satellite campus
directly or indirectly appointed by the main
campus in line with laid down academic
standards.”
According to Sunday Trust, Mrs. Buhari
enrolled in the undergraduate programme of
the Ambrose Alli University and received
lectures at its Leventis Building satellite
campus, Kaduna.
The Newspaper also reported that she holds
a National Certificate in Education (NCE)
from the National Teachers Institute (NTI)
alongside a Diploma in Beauty Therapy at
the Carlton Institute of Beauty Therapy,
Windsor, in the United Kingdom and a
certificate course from the French Beauty
School, Esthetique Academie Dubai. She is a
member of the United Kingdom’s Vocational
Training and Charitable Trust and the
International Health and Beauty Council.
Speaking to The Nigerian Times, a former
coordinator of one the satellite campuses of
the university who asked to be anonymous,
said while some campuses were able to
insert records of some students of the
satellite campuses into the general students’
records at the main campus, others were
just issued certificates without recourse to
the parent school.
He said while the certificates of those
whose records where successfully entered
into the school’s main record could claim
some level of validity, the others remain
invalid.
He said: “The campuses started in 1998 and
were all officially closed in 2002.
“Some of the campuses at the earlier stages
would get someone from the main campus
in Ekpoma to invigilate the examinations and
under some arrangements would then
register the students’ particulars in the
record of the university. After this, those
certificates got a value of validity.
“However, after sometime some centers
started issuing certificates to their students
in the name of the parent university without
any recourse to record keeping and so when
employers or schools of post graduate
studies contacted Ekpoma for verification,
the records of most of them were not found.
These developments finally led to the NUC’s
hammer on those centers.”
Every effort to get responses from the
Registrar of the University, Mr. Ojo Maliki
and Public Relations Officer of the
university, proved abortive. While mails
where not responded to, calls from our
reporter were treated with rude and evasive
responses. A University officer, who craved
anonymity, told this newspaper that Edo
being an APC state, the authorities are
extremely careful not to get caught in
Nigeria’s fractious political party rivalries.
http://nigeriantimes.ng/news/nuc-declares-aisha-buharis-certificate-fraudulent/ They don't respect education. They simply believe you can award yourself any degree you want. What a shame. 1 Like 1 Share 
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