₦airaland Forum

Callotti: Because empty vessels make the most noise!
But I remember you. You are extremely NASTY!
Your parents never went back to Nigeria.
You are really more of a Nigerian wanno be!
It shows in your posts.
Your visa is hereby denied!
Go and get a "Jammo-Were" passport.
We have enough problems with Boko Haram children from Niger Republic.
Thank you.

Long Live Blazay

Richtalk:
I don't need keep arguing with you. Make your research well. Find out about schools in UK or US. Find out when they normally do their graduation.

I don't have to name my school, but I did my graduation exactly one year after I got my certificate.  In some schools you even do your graduation without getting the certificate immediately.

Obviously you are in the UK, so your POV matters not in this case.

Secondly, the day you walk isnt technically the day you graduate.

You graduate once you've completed the necessary coursework for your degree

Now, go play with yourself.

ola olabiy:
You don't live in Canada.
Yeah! It is true we don't use 'mate' in America. The influence of living in Naija, I guess.

Do you want to know the street in question?

We are mates, man. We are buddies.

BTW, did you attend the last Ile-Ife meeting? I skipped it, man.

Yes, I do. Which street?

Richtalk:
Am sure of what am saying guy and I am a product of it.

example please?


The day you get your pali is the day you graduate.

Once you are done, you are done.

oyb:
http://saharareporters.com/letter/criminal-activities-234nextcom

long hiss

its not an article by SR, it a published LETTER from a person tosin badmus whose google search hits include fansforgoodluck

nuff said

those who support government of dullards by dullards for dullards / of liars by liars for liars are free to keep laughing and loling

its their turn to be as useless as the northern vampires they keep whining about - and they are doing a mighty fine job of it, i i do say so myself

Jumping to conclusion too fast.

Hmm NL intellectuals, they never cease to amaze me.

Richtalk:
Check out her CV

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5722945-146/curriculum_vitae.csp

She was working for Howard University between 1990 and 1992. Can Howard University Fault that?

My understanding is that in most foreign Universities, you can complete your studies and even obtain your certificate at a certain year but graduate at a different year.

Stop saying things you have no idea about.

If you have no idea, just STFU

musiwa.,.:
with the number of satellite pictures , i have posted, even the blind knows what will happen.

I dont think so.


Aare, we need maps


Maos, and more maps, and more phucking maps

Beaf:
See what bigotry can do? Allison Madueke is not Igbo.

Who cares. I am a lagosian. if you are not hausa and your name is not Yoruba sounding, then you are IBO. I make no effort to distinguish Ibos from other people in that part of Nigeria.

None of my business, really. As far as i am concerned, she is Ibo or well, Ibo-like/Ibo-made.

dem_people:
Interesting. Very interesting.

Nothing surprises me anymore about 9ja.

On a more serious note, alleluia that she even attended and graduated from the Uni despite the backdating (which is still wrong though). This same Nigeria that someone became a national assembly house speaker with fraudulent credentials? Anything is possible!

The journalists did not do their job well unfortunately.

They are heating up the polity unnecessarily.

Though I am anti-Ibo on NL , i still want the truth

If you have ever dealt with Howard, you'd know that Howard is very unorganized, and dysfunctional.

The people at Howard from the janitor to the CEO are all incompetent goons

We dont know why her degree was not released in 1987. it seems that  234Next is insinuating that it took her 9 years to complete her degree, which is impossible in most American colleges. You get 6 yrs max to finish, after that and you are not done, you are kicked out. Why did Howard not kick her out?


I assume the delay has to do with money issues. Maybe she had outstanding bills that made Howard hold on to her degree, and it was only released after she was cleared by the accounting department.


Irrespective, the report was inconclusive and shabby. I am really ashamed of 234next. This is not one of their best exposés, if you can call it that.

I hate Nigerian journalists, they never do their job well.


What a shabby report, very incompetent reporting.

By Idris Akinbajo
August 6, 2011 09:26PM
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She really was not required to enroll for national service. As Diezani Alison-Madueke settles into her second tour of duty as Nigeria’s petroleum minister, she wouldn’t have been burdened by the raging controversy that she skipped national service had she not needlessly lied about her exact year of graduation from the university, a NEXT investigation has shown.

[size=15pt]Our months-long investigations in Nigeria and the United States, where Mrs Alison-Madueke attended university, showed that the minister actually graduated from Howard University in 1992 when she was already 32 years old[/size].

Under the National Youth Service Corps Act, the one-year compulsory national service is only mandatory for Nigerians who graduate before the age of 30. Given the age at which she graduated, Mrs Alison-Madueke did not need to serve and is eligible for exemption from the programme. She cannot, therefore really be held liable for ducking it.

But it was the minister herself who created the confusion about her NYSC status by lying about when she graduated. [size=15pt]In the resumes she personally circulated for several years, in search of jobs and appointments to public offices, Mrs Alison-Madueke claimed she obtained her Bachelor’s in Architecture from Howard in 1987 when she was 27. She also created the impression that she had more post-graduation experience than she actually had.[/size]

Based on that claim by the minister, this newspaper had conducted a comprehensive investigation into her national youth service status, which led us to report that she skipped the one-year programme.

Howard faults Mrs Madueke’s claim

[size=15pt]But our investigations in the past months have revealed that Mrs Alison-Madueke actually backdated her graduation date by five years. Responding to a May 24 enquiry from NEXT, Howard, though its official, Kerry-Ann Hamilton said the minister graduated from the university and was awarded a Bachelor of Architecture degree under her maiden name, Diezani K. Agama, on December 8, 1992[/size].

To be sure that the Diezani of Ms. Hamilton’s record is actually the oil minister, our reporter wrote the university again on June 3, providing her maiden as well as her married name. The Howard spokesperson responded same day indicating that Diezani K. Agama and Diezani Alison-Madueke were one and the same person.

She added, “Our alumni database shows an update to married and female in 2010. This database is different from the records database. It is most current. The records database showed what applicants indicate prior to enrolling.” In a telephone interview with our reporter two weeks ago, Ms Hamilton dismissed the suggestion that Mrs Alison-Madueke graduated in 1987 but that the university held on to her certificate till 1992. [size=15pt]She said Howard was not in the habit of withholding the certificates of its students who had fulfilled all requirements for graduation. She further explained that the university authorities could not have withheld Mrs Alison-Madueke’s certificate if she had completed her course work for a degree five years earlier, saying the Minister could only have finished her programme and graduated in 1992.[/size]

“In the back and forth that we’ve had, I kept checking her records. I did not come across any evidence that her certificate was withheld,” she said.

A narrative of lies

[size=15pt]It is not clear what Mrs Alison-Madueke’s motivations were for backdating her year of graduation in her personal records.[/size] Mrs Alison-Madueke and her spokespersons would not comment for this story. The minister refused to respond to telephone calls and text messages seeking her comments. When NEXT contacted Malachy Agbo, her spokesperson, he listened patiently to our enquiry and promised to get back with his response. He did not as at the time this newspaper went to press. He also did not answer subsequent calls made to his mobile telephone.

[size=18pt]But sources suggested that she could have used it to curry favours in the early years of her life.[/size]

“You know when applying for jobs, some employers demand for some years of post-graduation experience. She probably did that to prove she had some years of experience in her early post-graduation life,” a source close to the minister told NEXT.

“By claiming that she graduated earlier than she actually did, the minister has fooled her previous employers, and enjoyed an unfair advantage over those who competed for positions with her,” said an official at the Ministry of Petroleum, who did not want to be named for fear he might be victimised. “What she has done is perjury. It is criminal and such a person is not fit to hold public office.” In her most widely circulated curriculum vitae, which she also provided to senators for her confirmation hearings, Mrs Alison-Madueke claimed she attended Howard University between 1983 and 1987 for a five-year professional degree in architecture, a statement her publicist repeated in a press release after she was reappointed minister early this month.

Post graduation, Mr Agbo claims in the release (find it here http://www.randburg.com/nigeria/diezani-alison-madueke.asp), Mrs Alison-Madueke worked at American Interior Builders Inc. as Project Engineer before joining Furman Construction Management Inc. Rockville, Maryland, as Design Coordinator in 1988. Her CV claims she returned to Howard University as an in-house Project Manager and a member of the Planning and Development team in 1990 and then joined Shell Petroleum as Head, Projects Unit, Estates, Lagos.

Mrs Alison-Madueke’s critics say this career narratives are now in doubt.

“You can’t build something on nothing,” said an official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, who is peeved that President Goodluck Jonathan proceeded to reappoint the minister despite the weighty allegations of corruption hanging on her neck. “Since she lied about her graduation date, she must have lied about her work history as well.” Going by this new revelation that she only made it out of the university in 1992, Mrs Alison-Madueke has barely one-year post-graduation work experience before she was hired as a unit head in Shell.

“This is unbelievable,” a former lawmaker exclaimed in an interview with our reporter. “I am suspicious that her claim that she graduated five years earlier than she actually did, must have misled Shell into giving her that position.” But by the time she became petroleum minister in 2010, Mrs Alison-Madueke momentarily appeared to have grown weary of lying about her graduation date. In the version of her CV she provided to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the minister was silent on when she passed out of Howard, although she stated clearly in the same document that she obtained an MBA from the University of Cambridge in 2003. But the falsehood appears to have continued, as shown by her resume recently circulated by her aides.

A curious sex record

[size=15pt]Another bizarre aspect of Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s record with Howard was that the university believed she was male until she applied for a change of status sometime in 2010.[/size]

When we first contacted her in May, Ms Hamilton explained that Mrs Alison-Madueke enrolled into the University as a male, saying the minister “is a male according to our records.”

In a subsequent correspondence, the Howard University spokesperson further explained, “our alumni database shows an update to married and female in 2010.” “This database,” Ms Hamilton stated, “is different from the records database. It is most current. The records database showed what applicants indicate prior to enrolling.” It is not clear whether Mrs Alison-Madueke deliberately applied to Howard as a male or whether it was the university that jumbled her records. The minister rebuffed an opportunity to state her own side of the story.

Her conduct is criminal

Some critics say the jumbled dates do not detract from her need to answer questions about her past.

“That is false and fraudulent representation and it is a criminal offence,” said Jiti Ogunye, a Lagos based lawyer.

Mr Ogunye explained that if the minister secured the public offices she has held based on the fraudulent information she provided, she could be prosecuted.

Bamidele Aturu, another lawyer and human rights activist, was unequivocal in condemning Mrs Alison-Madueke’s conduct.

“It is immoral. The person has misled the Senate, has misled the nation. It does not show that the person is a good example to our young people,” Mr Aturu said, while explaining, “Since the information was not made on oath, it cannot be considered an offence before the law.” A series of investigations by NEXT has shown that Mrs Alison-Madueke’s leadership of the petroleum ministry has been characterised by monumental corruption. This involves arbitrary awards of crude lifting contracts to obscure companies, fraudulent assignment of prospective rights in five lucrative oil blocks to two barely established companies and extortion of bribes from marketers.

^^^^

UK--->Cambridge, Massachusetts, ------>  Williamstown, Massachusetts?USA


You got it made!

or is it:

UK---> Williamstown, Massachusetts ------>Cambridge, Massachusetts ?USA

Irrespective, you are set for life.

If i were ileke, I'd all over your dyyyck!

I have to be honest, this is awesome

Long Live Ghana

The OP is very stupiddddddd.


How much do you want them to pay you?


How much did you pay for your degreee?

As far as I am concerned, 60000 naira per month is enough, too much self for the education you got.


yeye people, you for ask for a million per month Ole oshi

ola olabiy:
We live on the same street in America, mate.

And, we attend the same Ile-Ife meeting

I now live in Canada.

But which street BTW? And there is no 'mate' in North America. Only stupidddddd people from London say such.

ola olabiy:
I studied something close to economics.

I am not in Nigeria.

I see. makes sense!

Londoner?

okooyinbo:


China does not use YEN. That is japanese currency. YUAN (Rim'bi) is China's money.

Dont mind all these internet goons, very stupid people I tell ya

cap28:
which manufacturing industry?  hasnt the US out sourced the bulk of their manufacturing capacity to the Far East?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

You read too much junk news