Document forgery is a common phenomenon world over. In Nigeria it is done by peoples of all tribes and societal leanings. However, available evidence STRONGLY indicate that Yorubas live and dine in forgery. Majority of the forgery incidences in Nigeria are perpetrated by Yoruba people in Yoruba-based institutions. The more they are discovered and sacked, the more the sacked ones are replaced by a new bunch of forged certificate-bearing fellows. Any explanations?


Lagos fires 160 BRT workers

The management of the Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has dismissed 23 drivers, 93 bus officers and 44 supportive staff, guilty of falsification of certificates, low productivity, absenteism, among others.

According to the Chairman of Lagos BRT, Sunday Yusuff, “management, about two months ago embarked on an exercise to verify the documents of of all workers during which they were required to submit original copies of their certificates and other documents.

“We found that several drivers were using expired licenses…some staffers presented fake certificates, while some who were employed based on the qualification they claimed they have could not present papers to back up their claims…some did not even show up at all for the exercise.”

“The verification exercise was transparently carried out.” he said. “No reasonable person would fault the yardstick used in carrying out the exercise and we gave everybody the opportunity and time to ensure compliant with the directives. We even go to the extent of writing some schools to help fast track the process. At the end of the day, majority of the workers met the requirements.” he said.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/06/13/lagos-fires-160-brt-workers/

Oyo State Governor, Ajimobi, fires 3000 workers for forgery
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The Oyo State Government on Sunday sacked 3,000 workers over certificate forgery and age falsification.
According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Festus Adedayo, “the sacked workers include workers without letters of appointment and those having disciplinary cases.”

More here http://newsofafrica.org/2012/06/oyo-state-governor-ajimobi-fires-3000-workers-for-forgery.html

Ekiti uncovers 2,242 workers with forged certificates
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Ekiti government has discovered 2,242 workers, who gained employment into its civil service with forged certificates or falsified ages, an official said.

https://www.nairaland.com/463545/ekiti-uncovers-2,242-workers-forged

Revealed! Lagos State Deputy Speaker in Certificate Forgery Scandal

http://208.77.101.193/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=747%3Alagos-state-deputy-speaker-badmus-olujobi-in-certificate-forgery-scandal&catid=103%3Amore-news&Itemid=375

if they sack them others will replace them

Certificate Forgery: LAUTECH Sacks 40
From Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo, 08.02.2010

Ladoke Akintola Univer-sity of Technology (LAU-TECH) Teaching Hospital. Osogbo, Osun State has sacked over 40 workers of the hospital as a result of alleged certificate racketeering at different levels.

THISDAY investigation revealed that the management of the hospital embarked on the screening of workers certificate in the last two weeks.
The exercise was however not connected rocking the recent crisis with the university, which had snowballed to a threat by the National University Commi-ssion (NUC) to withdraw its operational license.

Consequently, anxiety had gripped workers in the system as the sacking of 40 workers have been a source of strong feeling that more will still be affected in the process.
A source told THISDAY that many of the workers who came into the system in the last seven years were brought by some prominent politicians within the state without proper verification of their results at the time of their employment into the service.

In fact, it was revealed that out of the 40 workers affected presently, about 10 top management staff were involved.It was equally alleged that the issue of certificate racketeering within the set-up was a source of worry to the management before the commencement of the exercise.

Reacting to the development, the image-maker of the hospital, Mr Ayodele Adeyemo, who denied the sack of the 40 workers however said actually an exercise is on to verify workers certificate.Adeyemo noted that the verification of certificates was a normal routine in the organisation.

OAU, OOU flush out dons to reposition varsities

By SEGUN OLUGBILE

Barely two weeks after the governing council of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, sacked the institution‘s vice-chancellor, principal officers and about 15 lecturers for alleged ineptitude, the leadership of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has relieved five of its lecturers of their positions for a similar reason.


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While the offences of the sacked OOU lecturers included mark boosting, alteration of results; presentation of fake Ph.D degrees and promotion without following due process, the offences of the OAU lecturers ranged from academic indolence, plagiarism to misdemeanour.

Other offences, allegedly discovered by the panel that recommended the sack of the OOU lecturers, included wrongful promotion and the inability of some of the lecturers to improve their academic qualifications 10 years after bagging their Master‘s degrees.

About a month ago, the council Chairman of OOU, Chief Alex Onabanjo, asked the Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Osilesi Odutola, the Deputy VC, Administration, Prof. E.O.A. Ajayi; DVC, Academics, Prof. O. Otolorin; and the Acting Registrar, Mr. O. Osinulu, to proceed on compulsory leave. The acting registrar, Mrs. Olajumoke Owotomo, alleged that the dons were involved in unethical practices. She also accused them of academic misdemeanour.

Investigations at the OAU revealed that the five lecturers lost their jobs for various offences ranging from plagiarism, job abandonment, ineptitude, globetrotting and alleged criminal tendencies.

According to the Public Relations Officer of OAU, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju, the sacked lecturers are, Dr. Ande Lamidi Kareem, Dr. Olusegun Fadiran, Dr. Edward Ogbonia Uche-Nwachi, Mrs. Victoria Abike Akalugo and Mr. Joshua Ayobami Ayeni.

Giving reasons for their sack, Olarewaju alleged that the lecturers flouted the law setting up the university. For instance, he said Ayeni, a Lecturer 1 in the Department of Computer Engineering, was sacked for plagiarism. ”You know that Ife is a first class institution that is well respected all over the world but unfortunately Mr. Ayeni sometimes in 2004, sent an article to an international journal based in South Africa.

”The article was published, but on January 10, 2005, the university received an e-mail from the publishers of the journal to the effect that the article was plagiarised. This is the height of academic fraud that a responsible institution will not overlook. So, the university set up a senate committee to look into the matter.‘‘

He said Ayeni was invited to defend himself, adding that the committee found him guilty at the end of its investigation. Though he was sacked this month, his salary was stopped in March 2007. ”But in reaching this conclusion, due process was followed, that is even why we are not having any problem with the Academic staff Union of Universities. All of us in Ife are for excellence and we are using this to send a clear signal that anybody that wants to work or study here must be ready to burn the midnight candle.‘‘

On why Akalugo, an assistant lecturer in the Department of Special Education and Curriculum Studies was sacked, the PRO said she could not provide evidence of progress on her Ph.D work since she started the programme over eight years ago. ”Her academic ability was nothing to write home about. In fact, her colleagues in the department and even students complained about her performance. It got to a stage that courses she meant to teach were withdrawn from her and given to other lecturers when it became obvious that she could not cope with the high standard expected from lecturers teaching in the university.‘‘

Olarewaju further alleged that Akalugo combined her teaching job at OAU with another one with the Ondo State Government. ”When the committee set up to try her case confronted her with this, rather than defending herself, she started employing various tricks to elongate the trial so as to perfect her plan to process her retirement with the Ondo State Government without the knowledge of the university,” he said.

Olarewaju added that the sacked lecturer was also involved in various acts that could tarnish the image of the university. A lecturer in her department, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the academic incapability of the sacked don. He said the lecturer was in the habit of going in and out of police detention for cases that were not political. But efforts to get the comment of the sacked lecturer failed as most of the lecturers in the department said they did not know her whereabouts since her ordeals with the university started.

A staff of the Faculty of Education, who simply identified herself as Seun, said she deleted the lecturer‘s number when earlier calls to her mobile phone showed that the handset was permanently switched-off.

The other three dons, Ande, Uche Nwachi and Fadiran were said to have abandoned their duty posts while all efforts to contact them failed. Olarewaju said their actions violated Section 2 sub section 232 of the university regulation.

Before his sack, Ande, a senior lecturer in the Department of Cell and Morbid Anatomy, according to Olarewaju, allegedly refused to resume for duties after the expiration of his approved leave in 1991. ”He did not also apply for leave extension and efforts to contact him had failed and he has since failed to resume for duty,” he said.

The story of Fadiran of the Department of Surgery was similar to that of Ande. They were both sacked years after their salaries were stopped by the university. Efforts by our correspondents to speak with any of the sacked dons failed as nobody at Ife was ready to disclose their whereabouts.

Olarewaju also said that during their trial, none of the three that allegedly absconded from the university appeared before the various committees that looked into their cases. ”See, Dr. Uche-Nwachi left the university without approved leave in 1996 and failed to come back. On four different occasions, he was invited in 1998 but he did not turn up. The committee did not have a choice than to pronounce him guilty,‘‘ the university‘s public relations officer added.

He said that the university decided to embark on the academic cleansing in continuation of its renewed bid to reposition the university.

On why it took the university years before taking disciplinary action against the affected lecturers, the PRO said it was because the university wanted to give the affected dons ample opportunity to defend themselves. But he added that the institution did not lose any money during the period as the salaries of the dons were stopped years before their official sack.

”If they had been cleared by the various committees, the university would have paid them in arrears,” he said.

Efforts to get the Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Michael Faborode, to comment on the issue failed. Calls to his mobile phone were not answered while he did not respond to a text message sent to his phone.

But members of the academic community particularly lecturers commended the university for the action. A lecturer in the Faculty of Science, who pleaded anonymity, said since the affected lecturers were given fair hearing and there was no allegation of witch -hunting, the institution should be commended. At OOU too, members of ASUU and students backed the management‘s action.

The President, Students‘ Union of OOU, Mr. Emmanuel Bada, said the students supported the action because the sacked officers had done little to enhance the status of the institution as a university.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200902223264739

I got my fake Ife, UI, NYSC certificates for N350,000
By AKIN OYEDELE
Published: Sunday, 22 Feb 2009

NOTHING in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Ingenuity will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press on‘ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
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Had Olusola Ogunshola come across this wise saying of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States of America, in his quest to earn a living through honest means, maybe he would have been singing a song different from the one he now sings at the headquarters of the Oyo State Police Command, where he is now cooling off.

Born 51 years ago in Sagamu, Ogun State, Ogunshola said he had tried his hands on many things since he finished from Oke Ibadan Boys High School, Ibadan, in 1974. He was a petty trader, clergy, and fish farmer at different times in order to secure honest livelihood. He didn‘t have a major breakthrough, he said.

In 1987, he said he struck an idea to travel abroad to seek the proverbial greener pasture, which landed him in trouble 21 years after.

Legitimately, Ogunshola did not possess more than a school certificate, but he goes about parading himself as a lawyer and pastor to swindle unsuspecting members of the public. It will be difficult for anybody to believe that the Bachelor‘s of Law certificate of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University); Master‘s of Law degree certificate of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan (which he ‘bagged‘ even before the university began postgraduate degree in law); the National Youth Service Corps certificate; call to Bar certificate and the identity card of the Nigeria Bar Association, found in his possession, were forged.

Not only that, the suspect confessed in an interview with our correspondent that he ”stole” the stamp and letterhead of a law firm, S. O. Alli and Co. And to complete his bogus identity, he said he purchased a lawyer‘s wig and gown, with a shirt to match in Lagos, when he finally decided to pass for a lawyer. Before he was excommunicated when his deals became known to the church authority, Ogunshola was also a ‘pastor‘ with the Global Harvest Church, where he ‘cast and bound‘ the devil and its agents for several years. The official stamp of the church, a disused locally-made gun, two international passports and some fake certificates of occupancy were also among his haul.

The Commissioner of Police at the state command, Mr. Bashiru Azeez, said that the suspect was nabbed over a N362,000 shady deal that went awry.

Azeez said, ”His cup became full when one of his victims reported that the transaction between them began on February 15, 2006 when the victim met the suspect at their church.

”The victim had told him that he needed the services of a lawyer to verify the genuineness of a property in Lagos State, which was introduced to him for purchase and to process the certificate of occupancy in respect of the property.

”To his enquiry, the suspect responded that he was a barrister and could render him the legal services. The victim was pleased at this development; that he had found a lawyer pastor in whom he could repose absolute trust.”

Pronto, the victim was said to have made available the sum charged by the ‘lawyer‘ in order not to lose the property to other interested buyers. That became his undoing. Ogunshola went to work and before you could say Babatunde Fashola, he had produced a purported C of O and other legal documents on the property, which the CP said were later discovered to be forged. Had the suspect refunded the money, probably the victim would have kept this secret, but he began to dilly-dally, as months of unfulfilled promises turned to years.

But on Thursday, Ogunshola cut the image of a pensive rogue, who having realised the gravity of his offence, would pose as a fowl beaten by the rain in his wig and robe.

Asked how he came about the certificates found in his possession, he said that it was in 1987 when he was desperate to travel out of the country that he encountered one late Ishiaku, who procured the documents for him at a fee of N350,000. Before his accomplice died in an auto accident (if he was not being economical with the truth), he said he was in the process of securing a Canadian visa with his fake certificates. Asked why he needed to go to that extent to secure a visa, he claimed that the idea was that of his late accomplice to smoothen the process. His dream however vanished with the death of Ishiaku.

His good command of English language notwithstanding, he said he could not further his education beyond secondary school due to lack of financial support from his struggling parents. His memory failed him when asked how he met the late accomplice and where.

He said the death of his partner dealt him a devastating blow that he did not know how to pick up the pieces of his life, having lost his life savings from his petty trading to the ambition.

Ogunshola insisted that he never defrauded his victim, who he identified as one Kayode Oresanya. Rather, he said that a link person that he contracted to secure the C of O from the Office of Surveyor General in Lagos ”collected the money and ran away.”

He said, ”I was no longer making use of the certificates. The police found them in my store. I never went to court or took a brief from anybody. I acquired those things when I wanted to travel abroad. When the Canada thing failed, Ishiaku still promised to help me before he died in an accident. I inherited the old gun they found in my house from my father. Go and check it very well, it is an old useless gun.”

In a rare display of ‘honesty,‘ he said that he stole the S.O. Alli and Co. stamp and letterhead when he had an opportunity of being at the law firm when they were relocating to another office.

His countenance dropped and he almost ended the interview when asked whether he was still a pastor, to which he declared ”I will not answer that question.”

Asked why he could not venture into any neat business with N350,000 as far back as 1987, he said his ambition was to live big and do well with his family. Now he said he had put his wife and two kids in a quandary.

Querying the rationale behind his arrest for a deal that was about three-years-old, he said he had already promised to refund the money to Oresanya before he (Oresanya) decided to invite the police. The suspect said that his income from his fish farming business could barely sustain him now, which explains why he told his victim to tarry a while.

If given another opportunity, he said he would turn a new leaf now that he had realised the position of law on his activities.

Hear him, ”I feel frustrated with my life because of the serious setback I suffered when I could not travel abroad. I have repented. I regretted my action. I can‘t do it again. I was a petty trader at a point, but I thought my life will be better. Now, I know better.”

Ekiti sacks 5,000 council workers over alleged certificate forgery
Monday, 18 July 2011 00:00 From Muyiwa Adeyemi, Ado-Ekiti News - National
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EKITI State government has dismissed 5,000 local council workers for age falsification and declaration of false credentials.

Workers in all the 16 councils from various cadres were affected by the action of the state. Their names were placed on the notice boards in the council’s secretariats last Friday to surrender all public property in their care to the relevant authorities and stop parading themselves as officials of the councils.

It was learnt that the sacked workers were accused by the state government of alleged falsification of their age, academic certificates, among others.

In an interview in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, Chairman of the Local Government Service Commission, Aderemi Ajayi, said the names of the affected workers had been removed from the July salary vouchers of their councils.

Ajayi explained that the dismissed workers were said to have gained employment using fake certificates and falsified birth certificates.

He explained that the lists of the affected personnel were compiled by a verification committee set up by Governor Kayode Fayemi to look into the activities of the councils in the state.

“Those affected gained employment into the local government service through fake certificates and those that ought to have retired but refused to do so by continually falsifying their ages.

“The lists of the sacked workers were compiled by a committee set up by the state government and the committee has directed all the local councils in the state to post the names of the affected workers on their respective notice boards as from Friday July 15.

“Their names had been removed from this month’s salary vouchers. They are to complain to the committee if they even have any complaints.

“Although I cannot tell you the exact figure of the affected workers, I can tell you the sack cuts across all the 16 local councils in the state”, Ajayi stated.

One of the affected council officials described the sack as “anti-people and anti-democratic” action by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)-led government in the state.

“The allegations of fake academic certificates and falsification of ages are not true as they are part of efforts by the government to justify the illegal and brazen action”.

The governor had on Monday, July 11, this year, ordered the sack of 27 directors of administration and finance of local councils over alleged failure of promotion examinations.

Drama as AC witness claims to be a lawyer - Can’t tell year he was called to the Bar
Reporter - 05.08.2009

AN Action Congress witness who told the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Osogbo, Osun State, on Tuesday, that he was a lawyer, gave two conflicting years as the year he was called to the bar.

The witness, Jonathan Adewumi, informed the tribunal that he was called to the Bar seven years ago and gave the actual year as 2005.

Later after some arguments between counsel for the parties, he was asked by the tribunal to explain what it called the “ambiguity” in the claim and the man changed the date again claiming that he was “actually called to the Bar in September, 2006.”

The witness again could not give the names of any of his mates at the Law School and said he could not remember the name of the person who signed his call to the Bar form.

Responding to questions during cross-examination by Alex Izinyon,, lead counsel for Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the witness also said he could not remember the names of his teachers at the Law School and could not remember the courses he offered.

When asked to explain what he knew as the duty of the Body of Benchers, the AC witness stated that the body determined “who passes and gets called to the Bar.”

He also could not give the name of the Head of the Lagos Campus of the Law School which he claimed he attended.

The following were the questions and answers between lawyers and the AC witness.

Question: Where do you live?
Answer: Oyan, Odo-Otin Local Government Area, Osun State.

Question: Is that the same as Ila-Orangun
Answer: No, Ila-Orangun is a different town

Question: You are a legal practitioner?
Answer: Yes

Question: You signed this deposition by yourself?
Answer: I don’t know what you mean by that

Question: (Shows him the deposition) You signed that yourself
Answer: Yes

Question: That deposition was signed by you on 11th May,2007 at the registry of this tribunal
Answer: Yes

Question: Your name on your deposition is Jonathan Adewumi
Answer: Yes

Question: You are how many years old at the Bar?
Answer: Just seven years old at the Bar

Question: What date were you called to the Bar?
Answer: I can’t recollect because I don’t have my certificate here

Question: What year were you called to the Bar- 2002 or 2001?
Answer: No, I was called to the Bar in year 2005

Question: As at 2005, who was the Director General of the Nigeria Law School?
Answer: I can’t remember

Question: Who was your lecturer in Civil Procedure at the Law School?
Answer: She was a woman, I can’t remember her name

Question: Which of the campuses were you in 2005?
Answer: Lagos Campus

Question: Who was the head of the Lagos Campus in 2005?
Answer: I can’t remember his name

INEC Question: Can you look at the crowd of lawyers here if you have a mate here ?
Answer: (looks round) I can’t see any here

Question: Do you remember the courses you read at the law school?
Answer: I can’t remember the number

Question: What class did you make?
Answer: Pass

Question: Do you know one Oyeyemi Ayodeji Oluwaseun?
Answer: I don’t know him

Question: (Asks Barrister Oyeyemi to stand up) That is a man called to the Bar in 2005. Do you know him ?
Answer: I don’t know him

Question: You said in your statement that PDP agents snatched ballot boxes and papers. Did you go to the police station to complain?
Answer: I went to the police station to complain but I did not meet the policemen there.

Question: When did you do that?
Answer: In the morning before 12 o’clock

Question: Can you be specific?
Answer: Before 11 0’ clock

Question: Did you report your injury to the police
Answer: I don’t know. I was in the hospital.

Question: Can you tell us why you did not disclose in your deposition that you are a legal practitioner?

Question: Can you be specific ?
Answer: Before 11 0’ clock

Question: Did you report your injury to the police
Answer: I don’t know. I was in the hospital.

Question: Can you tell us why you did not disclose in your deposition that you are a legal practitioner?
Answer: I am a witness in this case and not a counsel

INEC’s Question: You signed this statement yourself?
Answer: I signed

Police Question: You know before one is called to the Bar, there are processes one must pass through. Can you tell the court the process?
Answer: You have to go to primary school, secondary school and the university, then the law school.

Question: Witness, do you know what the Body of Benchers is?
Answer: Yes

Question: What are the specific duties of the Body of Benchers as regards calling of Lawyers to the Bar?
Answer: They decide who passes

Question: Did you take your call to the Bar form to any member of the Body of Benchers to sign?
Answer: I did

Question: To who?
Answer: Attorney General of Lagos State

Question: His name
Answer: I can’t remember his name

Re-examination by Aregbesola’s lawyer, Akin Olujimi, SAN

Question: Can you explain what you meant when you said you were called to the Bar Seven years ago and that you were called to the Bar in 2005?
Izinyon: I object.The answer was not ambiguous

Gadzama : I equally object to the re-examination the answer was very straight forward

Owolade: There is no basis for the re-examination the witness was emphatic about the year he was called to the Bar.

Olujimi cited Evidence Act, Section 189(3) and some cases to support his argument for the question.

Izinyon: On point of law, the cases cited do not support the case. The words used in section 189(3)are very clear- “explanation of matters”- explanation only comes if there is ambiguity. Inconsistency and contradiction are not the same. A witness can be inconsistent without being contradictory.

Gadzama: The statements were very clear, he did not say just “seven.” He said he was “seven years old at the Bar”

Ruling

There is ambiguity which he needs to clear.

Olujimi: Can you tell the tribunal which is the correct thing-You said you were seven years old at the Bar and again that you were called to the Bar in 2005?

Answer: Actually, I was called to the Bar in September 2006.

If verified, this is definitely a good move. We need to bad elements out of the system.

A lot of them are earning big in multinationals. Funny enough.

An illiterate Yoruba will forge a school certificate
A Yoruba primary school drop-out will forge WASC
A Yoruba WASC holder will forge a BS certificate
A Yoruba BS holder will forge a MS/PhD certificate
A Yoruba PhD holder will forge documents to elongate his stay in the workplace

Oluwole is really working

Germannig: Oyo State Governor, Ajimobi, fires 3000 workers for forgery
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The Oyo State Government on Sunday sacked 3,000 workers over certificate forgery and age falsification.
According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Festus Adedayo, “the sacked workers include workers without letters of appointment and those having disciplinary cases.”

More here http://newsofafrica.org/2012/06/oyo-state-governor-ajimobi-fires-3000-workers-for-forgery.html

was it because u had 0 comment dat made u post so much to boost ur comment figure....................lol
anyway, i love dat interogative session

hmmmmmmmm. I need to review the certificates of my workers

In as much as this is a nice move by various SW states,

you make it sounds as if SS and any part of the Country is free of things like this. A local Govt in Bauchi just removed about 5k workers.

https://www.nairaland.com/962923/5%2C000-ghost-workers-discovered-bauchi

Dont be surprise alot of Malam roam around Abuja in big cars heading various positions with fake certi.

Let other States do their verifications too and u will be highly surprised

Naija for show.

Nawa o, SW is filled with alot of fake people.
I wont be suprised if those of them commenting on NL are fake..(i mean borrowing grammer frm dictonary to comment)

Germannig: An illiterate Yoruba will forge a school certificate
A Yoruba primary school drop-out will forge WASC
A Yoruba WASC holder will forge a BS certificate
A Yoruba BS holder will forge a MS/PhD certificate
A Yoruba PhD holder will forge documents to elongate his stay in the workplace

Oluwole is really working

A friend of mine finished HND without OND from IMT
Another one graduated from ESUT with fake WAEC & NECO

While this move is commendable but am not so happy with the BRT stuff, don't they have this verification stuffs before employing them and how come they don't know the drivers license are expired already?.

Hmmm

https://www.nairaland.com/659827/don-jailed-four-years-certificate

‘Don’ jailed four years for certificate forgery
By Augustine Tsenzenghul 12 hours 8 minutes ago
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Fwelve 12 years, he paraded fake credentials with which he got a job at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi.

Yesterday, the law caught up with Daniel Ishola Owoademi, 51. He was jailed four years for certificate forgery.

Chief Magistrate Isa Mohammed, sitting in Bauchi, said the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

Police Prosecutor Inspector Iliya Bitrus, told the court: “The Chief Security Officer of the university, Mallam Garkuwa Ilimi, reported to the Police, on behalf of the university management, that the Governing Council had discovered that Owoademi, a lecturer, possessed fake credentials.