Nigeria's Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , who on May 15, 2015 got an honorary Doctorate degree from Yale University, one of the United States of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning has now seen a petition filed against her for the degree to be withdrawn.

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).

The campaign which has since seen lot of Nigerians join in started yesterday. According to the petition filed, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was deemed not to merit such degree citing the lack of improvement in Nigeria's economy. depletion and mismanagement of Nigeria's crude oil funds and rapid increase in Nigeria's debt profile.

Read full petition below :

"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 citizen of 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 security a priority and provided policy advice and 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 borrowing ridden 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 of the 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 honorary doctorate 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 under Ngozi 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 further delay for the sake of posterity.

Source: http://www.maxnaija.com/2015/05/breaking-ngozi-okonjo-iwealas-honorary.html

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Interesting

I thought as much


is that all? will EFCC not visit her?

her own don too much!!!

well, I can't help u o

She doesn't deserve such as award. Whoever thought of giving her such an award is an enemy of Nigeria.

APC must be responsible for this. On a more serious note, how can any right thinking body give NOI an award?.

MaxNaija:
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Oga blogger you funny gan o. Is it the mother-in-law that will help Jonathan pack out before? Are they not married anymore? It's too early oo

See follow up!

The evidence is not in her favour.

story story story!!!!

anoda day anoda fake news

Them on give her be say dem don give her if una no like am make una go kill una selfz.

Rubbish! The mor0n who filed the petition should be reminded that NOI job isn't to prosecute corrupt officials as she doesn't work with the EFCC or ICPC. From Her office,she can only put in place policies that would prevent corrupt practices. She wasn't in charge of the NNPC and cannot be held accountable for any wrong doing there. Furthermore,the financial and business world globally,work with data gotten/provided and this is what the world bank and other leading bodies globally,have used in predicting the growth of the Nigerian economy.
The petitioner should go look for a job to do;period!

Nigerians sha. If person don fk up,nothing like what he/she has done in the past. They start calling for the head of such. Anyway tomorrow na Friday abi?

wike for president 2019

Chai

You see your life
Yale

The will not. The guy is seeking attention.

Though I doubt the credibility of the source of this report. But then the award is undeserved of Okonjo Iweala with the mess she made with our economy and the level of corruption that was perpetrated under her watch, I really wonder who recommended her for the award or how much she paid to get it for image laundry.

Beremx:
She doesn't deserve such as award. Whoever thought of giving her such an award is an enemy of Nigeria.

True.

chronique:
Rubbish! The mor0n who filed the petition should be reminded that NOI job isn't to prosecute corrupt officials as she doesn't work with the EFCC or ICPC. From Her office,she can only put in place policies that would prevent corrupt practices. She wasn't in charge of the NNPC and cannot be held accountable for any wrong doing there. Furthermore,the financial and business world globally,work with data gotten/provided and this is what the world bank and other leading bodies globally,have used in predicting the growth of the Nigerian economy.
The petitioner should go look for a job to do;period!

Stop living in lies. We dont need leading bodies predicting our economy because that sure is a role they were asked to play, Nigerians need to see the improvement which obviously isn't showing in today's economy

See what jona has cost you



Next time you would say no to looting

Bad belle is allowed

Rubbish hate filled lies from the children of anger & herdsmen.
Nonsense!!

danot1030:
Though I doubt the credibility of the source of this report. But then the award is undeserved of Okonjo Iweala with the mess she made with our economy and the level of corruption that was perpetrated under her watch, I really wonder who recommended her for the award or how much she paid to get it for image laundry.

There's no cause to doubt. if you read through the post. The direct link to the petition is embedded therein. The campaign started yesterday.

Your headline does not depict the content of the article.
Yale as a prestigious ivy league university does not just dash out degrees.
So the petitions will be received politely and subsequently shredded.

I concur to this.