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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by yhemsy62(m): 11:56pm On Nov 20, 2015
Shey na her Pali we won chop ni? Abi make she deliver
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by shizzy7(f): 11:58pm On Nov 20, 2015
Duru1:


Per the bolded, a typical Nigerian mentality. You did not mention how "short legs" landed her in such position without a paper as door knocker.
Scroll down I actually mentioned it.

**Her father is the owner of United Nations
**Her Grandfather owns Colombia University
**Her uncle owns Bills and Melinda gates foundation

Dame Patience Jonathan has most of the required degrees, she should replace her.

Everything is connection,
Deizani's relative has a child for Jonathan - Connection
Arunma Oteh - Connection
Nothing can ever be based on merit
my list can go on and on.......
**Your typical Nigerian Mentality

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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Aguntasolo1: 11:59pm On Nov 20, 2015
OlujobaSamuel:
I thought she said she went to queens college during screening abi wetin d op dey watch then.

No be only queens college, na queens university
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Aguntasolo1: 12:11am On Nov 21, 2015
porshuch:
who told you she has no secondary education? Chai! Nigerians nawa o.

You tell us the name of her school and what she got from the school.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Aguntasolo1: 12:39am On Nov 21, 2015
shizzy7:
Scroll down I actually mentioned it.

**Her father is the owner of United Nations
**Her Grandfather owns Colombia University
**Her uncle owns Bills and Melinda gates foundation

Dame Patience Jonathan has most of the required degrees, she should replace her.

Everything is connection,
Deizani's relative has a child for Jonathan - Connection
Arunma Oteh - Connection
Nothing can ever be based on merit
my list can go on and on.......
**Your typical Nigerian Mentality

This is a profoundly ignorant comment.

Your father doesn't have to own a place before you secure a job there based on connection. Look at the entire trajectory of her career and you should be able to see connection, not competence, clearly written on it. The mere fact that you work with UN, Bill and Melinda Foundation doesn't rule out connection. In what role did she serve at Bill and Melinda Foundation? Because if you look at the job page of Bill and Melinda foundation and go thorough the minimum qualifications required, she shouldn't have been taken for any role except someone intervened. She listed Bill and Melinda Foundation as affiliations. Did she work there and in what role?

Aruma Oteh made a first class from UNN, a known school and then got an MBA from Harvard. She worked in various firms before even that of DG SEC. Diezani got a degree from Howard in Architecture before working with Shell; she has an MBA from Cambridge. She rose to become a director. Although you may be morally bankrupt, yet to achieve such a feat in the private sector, your intelligence must be above average.

This is the key: without Diezani knowing GEJ, she could have been nominated for a minister of petroleum based on her own career trajectory just same way Aruma Oteh for DG SEC. The same can not be said of Amina whose main job was forming nebulous NGO to get funds from government. Clear?

We both know Dame Patience and what she is notoriously known for but I can assure you she would also speak flawless British English was she born and raised in England.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by shizzy7(f): 12:41am On Nov 21, 2015
Aguntasolo1:


I think I need to break it down for you.

According to her CV, Amina was born in 1961 and didn't get her first job until 1981.


Even though she didn't mention her job role, I would nevertheless ask you this question: was she employed in that firm because of her brilliance or intelligence? You don't just become an Engineer, a Surveyor or an Architect because you speak English with a British accent. It's safe to state she wasn't employed in those roles. A young lady in her twenties with no degree, no SSCE could not have got a high profile job in a firm that requires expertise which takes years of training to acquire. Whatever role she got in that firm has nothing to do with high level of intelligence. It is even curious that she listed her specific roles in other organizations except this firm where she worked for 10 years! Since she had no known expertise and training, it is pretty obvious that if she was employed in high profile role, it would be as a result of "connection".



This doesn't count since she is a co-founder. Can she deny herself a job? That is, you can't say her performance in her previous role/job recommended her for this position. Whatever it is, one could say she had enough money to float her personal business. Afri-Projects Consortium was engaged by Buhari's PTF in the 1990s for managing HIV/AIDS intervention programmes. Since the firm has no experience in such intervention and the position not advertised, it was a "paddy paddy" connection job. Nothing in particular recommended her firm for that job.




Apparently,when Buhari's job as PTF chairman was gone as a result of transition to democracy, there was nothing for Amina's APC, hence CSACEFA where she was both a private consultant and National Co-ordinator at the same time. And what did they do? Of course, they worked with Ministry of Education! You too can form an NGO and name it anything. You can even name yourself a coordinator of 100 NGOs and then use your connection to work with the Federal Ministry of Education.


Can you see the link between the NGO she formed and the job she got at the Federal Ministry of Education? Connection.


And this too? Isn't this connection too?

Of course by the time you have many agencies including Nigeria's presidency listed on your CV, you can easily get job with such firms such as Bill and Melinda Foundation and even the UN. She got that UN job based on her previous role as SSA to President on MDG, a position she got based on connection.

There is nothing special about her other than her British accent.[b] Since she doesn't have any apparent talent, no expertise, no degree, no SSCE, she couldn't have gone that far without connection.
Summary of your thread, topic and post.
[b]It's all Connection,there is "nothing special about her", she does not worth all these because she is not educated at all.

But those who are have expertise and education have been at the helm of affairs for decades and we are regressing.

We had a former first Lady with all the "Almighty degrees" who disgraced us locally & internationally, she would have been better off speaking our dialect.

Nike Davies-Okundaye - NO FORMAL EDUCATION but lectures those with degrees at Harvard, meets with Presidents but since she is not into politics, no connection.

Go and check the bosses at Nigerian Customs-(worse-off)… You think there is nothing special about her? ComE again, you can only wish.
Those you think that are special because they have all the degrees and expertise have ruined Nigeria.
I will like to see what she is going to do.

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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Aguntasolo1: 12:50am On Nov 21, 2015
shizzy7:
Summary of your thread, topic and post.
It's all Connection,there is "nothing special about her", she does not worth all these because she is not educated at all.

But those who are have expertise and education have been at the helm of affairs for decades and we are regressing.

We had a former first Lady with all the "Almighty degrees" who disgraced us locally & internationally, she would have been better off speaking our dialect.

Nike Davies-Okundaye - NO FORMAL EDUCATION but lectures those with degrees at Harvard, meets with Presidents but since she is not into politics, no connection.

Go and check the bosses at Nigerian Customs-(worse-off)… You think there is nothing special about her? ComE again, you can only wish.
Those you think that are special because they have all the degrees and expertise have ruined Nigeria.
I will like to see what she is going to do.

My take is she shouldn't have been appointed a minister. She is simply not qualified. If a minister can not show a mere SSCE, what's there to even interrogate? That's my point.

Nike Davies-Okundaye lectures at Harvard. Did it occur to you that she had specialized skills? She is not lecturing there because she could speak fluent Yoruba as a result of her upbringing in Yorubaland. She belongs in the category of gifted hands. What's or are the skills of Amina Mohammed? What can she do that others can't do better?

The point is the former First lady was a first lady by the virtue of being married to a president. Not so? Why is this one a minister when she doesn't deserve to be one?

If people who are well educated "destroyed" Nigeria, what chance does she have?

Amina J Mohammed has nothing special other than her British accent.

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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by shizzy7(f): 12:59am On Nov 21, 2015
Aguntasolo1:


This is a profoundly ignorant comment.

Your father doesn't have to own a place before you secure a job there based on connection. Look at the entire trajectory of her career and you should be able to see connection, not competence, clearly written on it. The mere fact that you work with UN, Bill and Melinda Foundation doesn't rule out connection. In what role did she serve at Bill and Melinda Foundation? Because if you look at the job page of Bill and Melinda foundation and go thorough the minimum qualifications required, she shouldn't have been taken for any role except someone intervened. She listed Bill and Melinda Foundation as affiliations. Did she work there and in what role?

Aruma Oteh made a first class from UNN, a known school and then got an MBA from Harvard. She worked in various firms before even that of DG SEC. Diezani got a degree from Howard in Architecture before working with Shell; she has an MBA from Cambridge. She rose to become a director. Although you may be morally bankrupt, yet to achieve such a feat in the private sector, your intelligence must be above average.

This is the key: without Diezani knowing GEJ, she could have been nominated for a minister of petroleum based on her own career trajectory just same way Aruma Oteh for DG SEC. The same can not be said of Amina whose main job was forming nebulous NGO to get funds from government. Clear?

We both know Dame Patience and what she is notoriously known for but I can assure you she would also speak a flawless British English was she born and raised in England.

Loool, @ the emboldened
Dame Patience Jonathan
WASCE - 1980
NCE - 1989
B.Ed
P.hd - University of port Harcourt

If your sister possess all these degrees and speaks common English the way patience does, I guess you would tell her that is what "you are ridiculously known for".

If you can't understand the Language in which you were being taught for decades, what is the essence of the degrees??

My deizani&Aruma's part was a sarcasm in opposition to Patience's case.

Bye.

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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Nobody: 1:08am On Nov 21, 2015
madridguy:
I don't give a damn about her certificate. Her working experience alone speaks better. Thank God she no follow #TorontoCertificate Crew.

Awo will be turning in his grave.


Is this why you voted a fridge technician and have a certificate forger as your front man and defacto political leader?
Is this why Buhari's nepa receipt was enough for you?


In 10yrs time, the southwest will be on the same par with the illiterate north


Fools

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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by jumobi1(m): 1:10am On Nov 21, 2015
She sounds too educated to have no university degree.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Aguntasolo1: 1:12am On Nov 21, 2015
shizzy7:
Loool, @ the emboldened
Dame Patience Jonathan
WASCE - 1980
NCE - 1989
B.Ed
P.hd - University of port Harcourt

If your sister possess all these degrees and speaks common English the way patience does, I guess you would tell her that is what "you are ridiculously known for".

If you can't understand the Language in which you were being taught for decades, what is the essence of the degrees??

My deizani&Aruma's part was a sarcasm in opposition to Patience's case.

Bye.

Lol. Patience doesn't have a PhD except you want to impose one on her. Really, Patience is not the problem but the schools that awarded those degrees. I am not too sure Uniport would be proud of her. I wouldn't be surprised she got those degrees as a result of connection. Obviously, if she couldn't speak and write clearly, then she couldn't have passed her exams as well. Thus, her degree reflects more on Uniport than Mama peace.

It's possible for her not to understand the language she was being taught for decades! What's not possible is for her not to understand her native language: Izon or Igbo (whichever one). She is as fluent in Izon as Amina is fluent in English . I am not too sure Amina would not turn out to be a Patience if she found herself under similar circumstances.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by medoyin(m): 4:51am On Nov 21, 2015
Diversification has started folks.

Degree and Phd holders did nothing spectacular. It's time to diversify to non-degree holders for us to experience the change..

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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by otokx(m): 6:12am On Nov 21, 2015
Observation is not a crime but what is with Nigerians and Degrees?
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by OlujobaSamuel: 6:16am On Nov 21, 2015
Aguntasolo1:

No be only queens college, na queens university
you fit continue on the search then. Goodluck.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by danusy: 7:04pm On Dec 11, 2016
She is the new Minister of Environment and below are some of the things you may not know about her.

Amina J. Mohammed was born 1961 in Kaduna State and is of Gombe descent with a British mother and a Nigerian father.
From 2002-2005, Ms. Mohammed coordinated the Task Force on Gender and Education for the UN Millennium Project.
She has served as the Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
She served as the CEO and founder of the Think Tank Center for Development Policy Solutions.
She worked as Senior Adviser on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to three different Presidents of Nigeria from 2000 – 2014.
She has six children.
She received the National Honors Award of OFR in 2006 and was inducted in the Nigerian Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007.
AMINA J MOHAMMED was born on 27th of June 1961 in Gombe, Gombe State. She attended Capital School, Kaduna in 1972 for her Primary Six Certificate and Buchan School Isle of Manchester, UK in 1979 for the Ordinary Level Certificate. She further attended Henley Management College also in UK in 1989.

A versatile and accomplished mobiliser and Project Coordinator, Mrs Amina Mohammed had served as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs between 2005 to 201.
She has also served as National Commissioner, Human Rights Commission of Nigeria from 2005 to 2007. Mrs Amina Mohammed is the Assistant Secretary/Special Advisor to the United Nations, Secretary General in New York, USA.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by dustmalik: 7:38pm On Dec 11, 2016
Now that Amina J Mohammed has been appointed the new Deputy Secretary-general of the UN, i wonder if the OP and his likes will commit suicide.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by ShootToKill: 8:17pm On Dec 11, 2016
The presidiot doesn't have a common high school certificate, yet you expect him to value degrees.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by laudate: 8:34pm On Dec 11, 2016
danusy:
She is the new Minister of Environment and below are some of the things you may not know about her.

Amina J. Mohammed was born 1961 in Kaduna State and is of Gombe descent with a British mother and a Nigerian father.
From 2002-2005, Ms. Mohammed coordinated the Task Force on Gender and Education for the UN Millennium Project.
She has served as the Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
She served as the CEO and founder of the Think Tank Center for Development Policy Solutions.
She worked as Senior Adviser on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to three different Presidents of Nigeria from 2000 – 2014.
She has six children.
She received the National Honors Award of OFR in 2006 and was inducted in the Nigerian Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007.
AMINA J MOHAMMED was born on 27th of June 1961 in Gombe, Gombe State. She attended Capital School, Kaduna in 1972 for her Primary Six Certificate and Buchan School Isle of Manchester, UK in 1979 for the Ordinary Level Certificate. She further attended Henley Management College also in UK in 1989.

A versatile and accomplished mobiliser and Project Coordinator, Mrs Amina Mohammed had served as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs between 2005 to 201.
She has also served as National Commissioner, Human Rights Commission of Nigeria from 2005 to 2007. Mrs Amina Mohammed is the Assistant Secretary/Special Advisor to the United Nations, Secretary General in New York, USA.

Hello, please post the link or url where you got your information, so we can also read and verify. To the best of my knowledge. Henley Management College offers various management courses and degrees. But she did not state if she got a certificate, a diploma or a degree from Henley. So what qualification did she get from Henley? shocked
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by tolastikha: 8:59pm On Dec 11, 2016
If she is not professionally qualified, she won't have gotten those plum appointments at the highest level of world public service. Mind you, academic degree such as (b sc, m sc and PhD) are only for teaching. There are other forms of proficiency test such as (ican, acca, anan, acia, etc) practically made for practical jobs not theories and surely Nigerians are not aware of this. If it is not B sc or Hnd then you are not supposed to be working in any organized sectors (Nigerians own level of reasoning). Get your brain charge up men.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by laudate: 9:15pm On Dec 11, 2016
tolastikha:
If she is not professionally qualified, she won't have gotten those plum appointments at the highest level of world public service. Mind you, academic degree such as (b sc, m sc and PhD) are only for teaching. There are other forms of proficiency test such as (ican, acca, anan, acia, etc) practically made for practical jobs not theories and surely Nigerians are not aware of this. If it is not B sc or Hnd then you are not supposed to be working in any organized sectors (Nigerians own level of reasoning). Get your brain charge up men.

Oga, if she has all the correct qualifications, then how come she has never included any of them in her CV? For your information, BSc, MSc & Ph.d are NOT just for teaching. Free your mind and conduct solid research on what those qualifications are used for, before you comment, pls!
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by tolastikha: 3:33am On Dec 12, 2016
laudate:


Oga, if she has all the correct qualifications, then how come she has never included any of them in her CV? For your information, BSc, MSc & Ph.d are NOT just for teaching. Free your mind and conduct solid research on what those qualifications are used for, before you comment, pls!

If you are not aware get it into your brain today. Academic qualifications are met principally for research purposes. Application of the research works are carried out by professionals period. That is why whatever your qualification, PhD or whatever, you can't audit corporate account except you have ican; nor sign engineering design except you have corel; nor certified any corporate plan as worth implementation except you have acia; nor certified any survey plan except you are chartered surveyor.

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Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Nobody: 7:00am On Dec 12, 2016
And to tell you that somebody who even manage to go to school and come out with third class is seen as almost worthless.
The most annoying thing is that some people are justifying the anomalies. Tomorrow they will be blaming others for the high illiteracy rate in the North.
I have always told people not to live a life of uncertainty . Try your natural best before relying on faith.
Larger percentage of those who goes to school become literate. Also, larger percentage of those who did not go to school becomes illiterates,period!
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by laudate: 9:50pm On Dec 13, 2016
tolastikha:
If you are not aware get it into your brain today. Academic qualifications are met principally for research purposes. Application of the research works are carried out by professionals period. That is why whatever your qualification, PhD or whatever, you can't audit corporate account except you have ican; nor sign engineering design except you have corel; nor certified any corporate plan as worth implementation except you have acia; nor certified any survey plan except you are chartered surveyor.

Guy, pls try and educate yourself. undecided Like I said before, a little learning is a dangerous thing. An academic qualification is a pre-requisite for most professions. It merely serves to confirm to external parties that you have received prescribed training and acquired relevant skills in a particular subject, or field of expertise.

It is the reason why you cannot be allowed to practise medicine, unless you have a medical degree & have passed the statutory examinations mandated by the medical board. It is the reason why you cannot be admitted to practise law in any jurisdiction, unless you have taken the requisite bar exams and passed through the appropriate training specified by the regulators in that field. undecided

It is also the reason why you cannot practise as a certified clinical therapist, without at least a bachelors' degree in psychology.

Even the COREN you are making noise about, requires that you must first have a degree or diploma in engineering before you can sit for the prescribed professional exams in order to get COREN certification. Tell me how many engineers are awarded the COREN certification, without possessing a first degree or equivalent qualification in engineering? sad

If you applied for a driving job, would any prospective employer not ask you to submit a valid driving license as evidence that you have the skills you are claiming to possess?
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by nickxtra(m): 11:02pm On Dec 13, 2016
Somebody without a degree, yet she was an Adjunct Professor at Colombia University in New York?
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by laudate: 11:38pm On Dec 13, 2016
nickxtra:
Somebody without a degree, yet she was an Adjunct Professor at Colombia University in New York?

Adjunct Professor of what, exactly? And if she has a degree why can't she state it clearly in her resume?? What course precisely did she study, and what class of degree did she graduate with? shocked
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by MeAboki(m): 1:16am On Dec 14, 2016
Aguntasolo1:
These are the relevant constitutional provisions:



Also section


Does she even merit to be a minister? Does she have education of any kind?


Well, it would appear that the constitution went to further qualify what a school certificate means.
Accordingly, based on paragraphs b) which speaks of education up to secondary school certificate level and d) which speaks of any other qualification acceptable to INEC; therefore a person vying for any elected office or ministerial position does not need a certificate of any kind at all to qualify for that office - I believe this was why GEJ and the PDP gave up on their mission to disqualify PMB from the presidential election.

Considering the above, it is therefore safe to say that Aisha Mohammed was more than qualified for her ministerial position and no doubt ridiculous for anyone to fault the UN for independently deeming her qualified a job within its organisation.

Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by obailala(m): 3:32am On Dec 14, 2016
With her extensive work experience and achievements, it is definitely only a typical black man, an African and indeed a Nigerian that can be bothering himself with what her first degree certificate has in it.
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Hiploko(m): 3:43am On Dec 14, 2016
madridguy:
I don't give a damn about her certificate. Her working experience alone speaks better. Thank God she no follow #TorontoCertificate Crew.
what do you expect when her oga no even get waec? No wonder naija is jagajaga like this
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Hiploko(m): 3:45am On Dec 14, 2016
obailala:
With her extensive work experience and achievements, it is definitely only a typical black man, an African and indeed a Nigerian that can be bothering himself with what her first degree certificate has in it.
religion has tampered with your brain
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by tit(f): 3:58am On Dec 14, 2016
A country of anything goes
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by Nobody: 4:30am On Dec 14, 2016
One day these people will appoint a cow as head of agency
Re: Nigeria's Minister Of Environment Amina Mohammed Has No Degree! by orisa37: 5:48am On Dec 14, 2016
No stupid idiot is a British citizen. Check that up.

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