The petition was filed by one Sunday Iwalaiye through the world's largest petition platform Change.org (An online platform where individuals can start a campaign and mobilise hundreds of others locally or hundreds of thousands around the world, making government bodies and company responsive and accountable).


"YALE UNIVERSITY GAVE ITS PRESTIGIOUS HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE TO AN UNDESERVING NIGERIAN"

:Ngozi Iweala, the outgoing Nigeria's finance minister was awarded a honorary doctorate degree by Yale University on May 15, 2015. The citation from the Yale University reads:"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Doctor of Humane Letters. You are a citizenof your country, your continent, and the world. Shaped by challenging experiences during your childhood in Nigeria, you have made social and economic reform your mission. As Nigeria’s coordinating minister of economic development and minister of finance, you have tackled corruption, created a vision and path to long-term economic stability, and worked to build a culture of transparency. At the World Bank, you made food securitya priority and provided policy adviceand capital for the world’s poorest countries. With wisdom, a fierce dedication to doing what is right, and unflagging energy, you have transformed the economic landscape of your nation. We are proud to name you Doctor of Humane Letter"This citation from the Yale University does not reflect nor represent everything that has happened under the watch and the supervision of the Nigerian economy by Ngozi Iweala as the nation's finance minister.

There is no tangible evidence of any economic development in Nigeria under the leadership of Ngozi Iweala in all reality. Nigeria's economy is still an oil-dependent economy that is debt and borrowingridden as well as 100% consuming and importing in nature. Nigeria's debt profile has risen rapidly under Ngozi Iweala and Nigeria has borrowed over $2 billion in the last four months alone to pay salaries ofthe federal and state civil servants.Our foreign reserves and excess crude oil accounts have both depleted heavily under Ngozi Iweala. The recurrent expenditures in the federal budgets reached the highest levels which made capital development practically impossible in Nigeria under Ngozi Iweala. The board of regents of this ivy league school missed it completely by awarding their prestigious honorarydoctorate degree to an undeserving Nigerian in all truth, honesty and reality. The Nigeria's economy has remained the same under Ngozi Iweala without any evidence of its diversity from oil.

The Nigerian Naira crashed to its lowest value in its history under Ngozi Iweala. The true picture that Yale University missed is the fact that the economy of Nigeria has almost grounded to its final halt today which will makes its a daunting task for the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari to meet its campaign promises.The menace of official corruption and financial scandals have both reached their peaks in Nigeria underNgozi Iweala. A central bank governor was fired for disclosing that $20 billion was missing from the federal coffers and this allegation was investigated in a shady and questionable manner. The oil subsidy scam that cheated Nigeria's tax payers of trillions of Naira was coordinated and supervised by Ngozi Iweala. The culture of official corruption and state resource mismanagement were both honored, celebrated, protected and defended under the leadership of Ngozi Iweala as the supervising coordinator of the Nigerian economy. To give a honorary doctorate degree to an undeserving Nigerian by this world's reknown university is the biggest slap on the faces of the 180 million Nigerians in 2015.

I am using this social medium to appeal to the board of regents of this prestigious university to withdraw this honorary degree that they awarded to this Nigerian immediately and without any furtherdelay for the sake of posterity.



https://www.change.org/p/yale-university-withdraw-the-honorary-doctorate-degree-given-to-ngozi-iweala-of-nigeria?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5454584854

Coming back to comment when i wake up proper.

Modified:

Woke up,said my prayers,went to work,did not see the new beautiful girl i have been eyeing at the work place today,came back home,read this article again and now ready to add my one kobo.

First, the writer below me should have his BP checked at the Lafenwa Specialist Hospital.

@the OP i want to believe this news is fake right?for you to petition to have somebody's degree revoked in the United States, means you first of all have to understand how the United States,the United States education System and everything about their educational system works. Schools in the United States are not like ABSU, where Orji Kalu degree got revoked or LASU that revoked some Doctoral Degrees.

Americans do not like to be told WHAT TO DO. This applies to their Schools, and that is why the United States do not belong to organizations like ILO(international labor organization), CommonWealth Of Nations and a host of others,they DO NOT LIKE OUTSIDERS telling them what to do, and that is why your petition, if true will die a natural death on your computer.

Yale is an IVY SCHOOL and among the top 10 Schools in the World. Schools like that do not make mistakes by conferring awards/degrees on people that are not worthy of it. Some Nigerians might say maybe the School was bribed, and to them i say YALE cannot be bribed or bought.

There are/were processes that any conferment has to go through, many vetting processes and so many offices that would have examined not just her academic standing,but also her standing among other people holding positions that are as similar to hers, and still found her worthy.

The only way Yale can even at all look at any petition against her would be (A)she has been convicted of any crime by any court of law anywhere in the world(B)if anything in her academic background can be proven not to have been written by her i.e plagiarism (C)or if a Body of Academia calls into question any paper she has ever written/presented and is assumed to be a fraud.

American's do not subscribe to emotions i.e the only reason you have for your petition is because she serves with Goodluck Jonathan. Give them some facts on why she is not worthy to be awarded the degree she got. Casey Anthony killed her Daughter, George Zimmerman killed an unharmed black youth, OJ Simpson killed his wife and all the aforementioned people got acquitted.

Everybody including the Judge and Jury knew they were all guilty, but no hard evidence could be shown or brought against them so they all walked. So what am i saying?until you get anything meaningful against this woman that has been recognized by one of the best schools in the world, then you are attempting to waste your time in writing to Yale.

Lastly and this is very important. Nigerian's with this mentality of Pull Him Down(PH.D)syndrome should please try to desist from it, we are not helping ourselves by trying to always bring one of our own down always and always. Sentiments aside, rejoice for this lady as this award could have gone to a Kenyan, or a Malian.

The main reason why Nigerian's are always treated bad/never respected by other Nations is because we are our own worst enemies.

Lets us STAND UP TOGETHER and be COUNTED as ONE.

Good!


That text-book-economist of a woman that is bereft of practical application and good policies does not even deserve to be awarded a 'certificate of attendance' not to talk of the honorary one.

She helped that clueless effete to lead us to the hypabyssal of economic quagmire and epilepsy.

Na the school withdraw am abi na somebody want the school to withdraw am?

The honour should be withdrawn sharp sharp. If it must be given to her, then the reason shouldn't be that she fought corruption and ensured fiscal transparency in Nigeria cos thats a wicked lie.

What parameters did they use to give their awards? What did they know that we don't?

here we go again with fake-ass news

would this make world bank to kick her big ass?

if dem no withdraw am, go and help dem...mtechwww

They really messed up big time, but I think they won't withdraw it cos I never heard of withdrawing Honorary Doctorate Degree before.



Just my thought.



Peace.

Just signed...

This news is fake

umarc19:
They really messed up big time, but I think they won't withdraw it cos I never heard of withdrawing Honorary Doctorate Degree before.



Just my thought.



Peace.

We are going to mount pressure on them ...massively

Generalkorex:
This news is fake

I just signed

Seun Lalasticlala obinoscopy ikenna351 mynd44 ishilove FP

Good riddance tho

This space is not for sale .. I smell fp

Jobless APC apologists.
Jobless dults...the whole lot of them!
Your mates are working and thinking of bettering their lives, and even being recognised for their achievements, some jobless noisemakers and useless Iguanas are babbling for Yale to withdraw what?

Keep making noise on nairaland why she keeps getting international recognition. I don't know if some of these illiterates think the awards from Yale is the same as that which is given to individuals by Nigerian Universities. Senselessness!

shey kosi sha.. y nah *not sure of that link tho*

Wasted degree built on lie and world bank conspiracy

i still rate Charles Soludo a hundred times over this biatch

hmm

zicoraads:
Jobless APC apologists.
Jobless dults...the whole lot of them!
Your mates are working and thinking of bettering their lives, and even being recognised for their achievements, some jobless noisemakers and useless Iguanas are babbling for Yale to withdraw what?

Keep making noise on nairaland why she keeps getting international recognition. I don't know if some of these illiterates think the awards from Yale is the same as that which is given to individuals by Nigerian Universities. Senselessness!

Everything in Nigeria is either APC or PDP, Moslem of Christian. Stop dividing Nigeria if some pple prefer APC, u don't need to be pained by it ha!!!! Seems Ngozi had made ur own economy good, , pple that have issues with her r complaining and u r giving insults

definitely FP-bound

What ever you sow, that you shall reap.

Issokay

In all considerations, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala deserves nothing like this. She, in partner with that clueless fisherman siphon Nigeria to the last. The cashless policy she introduced is a plan to enriched themselves without having to move money around.

She doesn't deserved to be called Mrs self not to talk of Dr

Great

I am sure that the Nigerian government might have paid for this honour on the Coordinating Minister. Yale Uni might be needing funds as well considering the report below.

"Yale University has made a special $8.5 million payment to former president Richard C. Levin, an unprecedented lump-sum payout highlighting the increasingly lucrative compensation for leaders at the nation’s top universities".(Wall Street Journal, 19 May 2015)

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