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After noting the Institutions he attended and the qualifications he obtained, as per the NNPC website information, we can then correspond the two qualifications in focus, that is the Diploma in Petroleum Management and the Diploma in Business Management, which were said in the news below, to have been obtained from the "prestigious" Havard University and the University of Oxford. Can you spot it? Havard said, the ONLY Diploma they offer is MBA, as you can see above.

As per NNPC website

His qualifications are;

B.Sc (Hons) Chemistry
Diploma in Petroleum Management
Diploma in Business Management
Diploma in Process Engineering Design

He attended the following schools;

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Havard Business School, Boston, USA
USA International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland
College of Petroleum Studies, Oxford, UK

Note the above institutions.

Let us see what is presently on his profile page of the NNPC Website

There are 3 scenarios here;

1. It is either he did not attended University of Oxford and Havard University but the webmaster was confused with the CV passed on to him and he erroneously put University of Oxford instead of College of Petroleum Studies, Oxford (which is a training institute, not a University, and should not come up on one's academic section of CV). ~~~ In this case, the webmaster is responsible for not clearing things up before publishing. But then what about Havard?

2. He may have enrolled in University of Oxford and/or Havard University but failed to pass the requirement to be awarded with a Honours Degree or is unable to complete some of the courses required to get awarded. ~~~ In this case, the qualifications shouldn't have there unless he wanted to lie.

3. He have never attended any courses in University of Oxford and/or Havard University, but faked his credentials to show that he has attended those schools and get awarded with those qualifications. ~~~ In this case, he should resign immediately, and face the necessary actions by the court of law.

[quote author=Jon.Bee link=topic=793189.msg9460929#msg9460929 date=1320171096]@Auwal87,

I can understand your bitterness. How dare a man from the "Slavish Bastard-North" (remember banza Bokwai) be the head of NNPC.
A position that well befit a true son of Arewa's "Royal-North" (remember Hausa Bokwai)

If Barkindo leave the stage, it's only make sense to replace him with "born-to-rule" Danbaba.
The rest of us can see through your gimmicks. You idiots only cry marginalization of the north when a position is not being held by an Hausa man; and when that position is given to someone from the middlebelt region of the north, you go sour. Hypocrite northener!

If Austen Oniwon is guilty, let him face the law.
Until then, your campaign of calumny and slander ain't worth shyt unless you can authentically back it up.
Until then, up you poop with a scoop, you self serving tribalist.[/quote]It has absolutely nothing to do with this. Period.

I have been asked by some posters here to present some evidence of email from Havard, that they do not offer any Diploma in Business Management. But only an MBA. Here it is;

[quote author=musiwa,,. link=topic=793189.msg9455427#msg9455427 date=1320104648]did you call harvard university and ask. ? You see, why dont you first do the right thing. Havard university may have had the program before and cancel it. It is not nigeria, when a course have nobody wanting it. they cancel it. they may have cancelled the course.

this is why i dont associate so much with you nigerian, you are always looking for ways to pull people down. have you ever thought about building up people. rather than destroying them. think about this. life is to short for hate.[/quote]Yes, bob answered, he said they do not have any Diploma in Business Management.

Ok, next election don't tell us Jonathan holds a PhD therefore he qualifies as the thread keeps appearing above about Credentials. You have said it all.

Afterall, I am not claiming his qualifications are too low for the position he is holding, I am simply exposing the facts mentioned on the NNPC website that he studied at Harvard University and University of Oxford to obtain a Diploma in Business Management and a Diploma in Petroleum Management respectively.

The facts remain, explain where he got those qualifications, but not Oxford or Harvard as claimed. Simple.

I am not doing this because I want to paint one tribe with black paint, I am no fan of that. I am supporter of Buhari to the core, but cast doubt on him when he publicly deny that he is trying to Islamize Nigeria, which is untrue. As a Muslim, I know it is our duty to promote our religion, uphold our values, and what ever capacity we find ourselves. But he reject it because he is running for election, and he doesn't wan't to lose credibility. Anyway, I went off topic.

I will remain active in this investigation, as so far more itches have been found related to his work at NNPC and will be revealed soon.

[quote author=Francis-1 link=topic=793189.msg9454927#msg9454927 date=1320097549]deleted[/quote]Deleted from where?

Oniwon - 34 years experience, BSc, Diploma?
Philip - 34 experience years, MEng, BSc
Yusuf - 31 years experience, PhD, MSc, BSc
Arokodare - 29 years experience, MBA, BSc
Babakusa - 23 years experience, MBA, BSc

Complete profiles > http://www.nnpcgroup.com/AboutNNPC/ExecutiveManagement.aspx

emiye:
This should be further probed, if he is found wanting, then he must face the music.

No sacred cow is allowed. All talks about 34, 100 years or whatever experience is a no-no. Those kind of talks are poo.

Exactly my friend! Big No!

harambe:
The smartest and most practical solution is two-folds. (a) The first is to abolish the local government system. (b)The second is to create new regional governments above current geopolitical zones with minor boundary adjustments to reflect reality and address concerns that arise from this. The Fed govt should allocate all funds to the regional governments which should then decide how to share it within the regional states. Any region can create any number of states or counties  or development areas it chooses. The regions can decide to create police forces at the regional and/or state levels, and they must fund them completely. Regions should control resources and pay 50% or less to the fed govt. This strategy would face the least resistance from current "eaters".

It is either this or separation? The current system does not work, and will never work for the diverse country like Nigeria.

nakedall:
if the one he got from ABU is okay then what is the issue. afterall all degrees and certificates are useless to our development since we still need chincoman to train us how to push the button in our energy plant.

nakedall:
if the one he got from ABU is okay then what is the issue. afterall all degrees and certificates are useless to our development since we still need chincoman to train us how to push the button in our energy plant.

No, if guilty, then he must resign and face charges.

KnowAll:
^^^^^^
@awwula87

You are missing d point, d top executives of d top 100 companies in Britain are run by people who has just first degrees in some instances no degree at all. Having said that this guy does not have to lie over one non existent Oxford degree, his experience is enough to see him through if anything.

What if he lied to get there?

He is not an entrepreneur, he didn't own the NNPC.

The fact is, if those qualifications were faked, how can the government trust him to become NNPC chief. They do not know, they should know, if nothing is done, them savvy, afterall, Nigeria is already in more big shit than the NNPC's boss qualification. Who knows how many people are out there holding big posts with fake certificates. Don't be surprised that even the easiest to confirm waec certificates are been faked, and nothing is done. I am all telling what I saw, and if I kept silent then I am falling in the traps too. Again, he might have used juju to silence people who will want to confirm his qualifications, it do happens, and it will keep happening, as long as we keep on keeping quite and silent over what we can solve by ourself. It is an all out war against corruption, fraud, it is a crusade, Nigerians must fight for the country, you are deceiving yourselves if you think someone from heaven can come down and rescue the country from the mess it is in now.

My words are reserved.

Not only in Nigeria, in Iran 2008, a minister faked an Oxford qualification;

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/08/13/iranian_interior_ministers_fake_oxford_diploma

It isn't a matter of he got experience, GEJ would have handed over to IBB if really experience matters. It is about honesty, he is handling the nation's wealth.

eGuerrilla:
I think you need to be careful here, Auwal87, in order to avoid conflating distinct issues.
I say this because I have seen 1st degree holders in different fields of engineering describe themselves as 'engineers', when nothing could be further removed from the truth. What you've brought into shape focus now is a very Nigerian disease, unique and location-specific only

It should have a cure.

eGuerrilla:
Wait a minute.
The origins of the Oxford Princeton Programme lies in two entities known as: The College of Petroleum and Energy Studies (Oxford, UK) and Princeton Energy Programme (Princeton, New Jersey, USA). This much I wrote earlier.
Back to a question I posed a short while ago; what triggered this scrutiny of Mr Oniwon's credos?
Is this intended as pay back of some sort?
You are a brother from the North, right?

What triggered this scrutiny?

Ans. A fellow looking to enrol his son on the paths of the NNPC's GMD. Both University of Oxford, Havard University, does not offer any of the qualificationa that Austen claimed to have, more so, it was never on their inventory of programs offered by the Universities.

Whether he is ebira, hausa, yoruba, igbo, or any other tribe, the fact is that he is Nigerian.

Even the Oxford Princeton does not offer a "Diploma in Petroleum Management".

Havard also have never offered any program "Diploma of Business Management" or BSc or MA, or any MBA with concentration in Business Management. It is simpler if he had an MBA to just call it MBA rather than putting a Diploma in Business Management. I have seen many who put MBA after their name, if he really had any, he too could have put it there. At least I know. So : .

Call Havard Business School on 1-617-495-6555
Call Oxford Saïd Business School on 44-186-527-8804

In case you don't know, Havard's website address is 'www.harvard.edu' and Oxford's website address is 'www.ox.ac.uk'.

WaltherPPK:
The man is not an Engineer, he did not do any engineering course nor pass any professional exams. He is only a graduate of chemistry.Being a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers those not make him one either, as COREN is the only body that can register engineers in Nigeria.So anybody who is not registered by COREN ( Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria) should not be addressed as such.

Gbam!

Beaf:
I am yet to see any proof that the mans credentials are fake. Where are the copies of the email you received from the schools in question?
You just can't wake up one morning to blacken anybody's name by rumour, that is a very dangerous path. Back up your claims or be prepared to be forever seen in very bad light.

Proof? I am no better than you as a Nigerian who wants the country to become a better place to be.

Even if Andrew Hamilton, the VC of Oxford come here to claim that Austen was never a student of the University, you will still find something to say.

So, done mine already, and I didn't kept silent, already reported. Left to them, do something or ignore. But I will keep exposing bad elements where ever possible.

By hiding this under carpet, it will encourage many others to follow the same path, thereby filling the country's workforce with bunch of fraudsters and thieves in addition to what we got already.

Frendys:
Fake certificates or not, fuel is available readily throughout the nation.

A man should be judged by his work and result not by his certificates. This overemphasis on certificates has been one of the reasons for our backwardness.
I respect your findings but for now that is not what we need in Nigeria.
WE NEED STABLE POWER SUPPLY!
Afterall, where were the Harvard and Cambridge gurus when the economic depression set in?
Oniwon and his team under Diezene Maduaeke, the Minister are giving us unrivelled result thus far. Let them keep it up.

See you, do you know what it takes to obtain qualification from high ranking universities, the time and money?

If this man can fake his way to become NNPC boss, there is no doubt he can fake his way to lift a million barrel of crude oil every month.

How can Nigeria move forward with this type of people?

[quote author=musiwa,,. link=topic=793189.msg9450984#msg9450984 date=1320061319]i dont if this is a fraud, but over here they call certificate as diploma.[/quote]Lol, you also do not get it, I know about the educational systems of UK and US, and I know what they call them, the issue is, whatever name you choose to call it, Petroleum Management and Business Management is not offered in those Universities he claimed to obtain them from.

Not a Diploma, not a Certificate, not a Bachelor, not a Master, all not offered.

The college of petroleum studies does not even exist in Oxford which the guy claimed to have studied in.

I got banned because of posting this truth.

What happened to the Freedom of Information Act?

lagerwhenindoubt:
In Harvard parlance it is called a B.A Degree Diploma The Word Diploma is the actual Paper Certificate given to you not a Study Classification

[url]http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/07/the-ba-diploma-from-a-to.html
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[url]http://www.hbs.edu/mba/registrar/alumni/alumni-diplomas.html
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Lol, I know that already, the whole Havard have no program title like Business Management.

lagerwhenindoubt:
@Op take ya time ooh no pour sand for my garri. abi dem send you    

Do you know any authority to report this?

lagerwhenindoubt:
@Op take ya time ooh no pour sand for my garri. abi dem send you

Do you know any authority to report this?

https://www.nnpcgroup.com/Portals/0/ogoni.jpg

This man

Austen Oniwon is a fraud!

A fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, FNSChE, Oniwon holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He also holds a Diploma in Business Management from the prestigious Harvard University, USA and Diploma Petroleum Management from Oxford University, UK.

1. Havard University does not offer any Diploma in Business Management program.

2. Oxford University does not offer any Diploma in Petroleum Management (I confirmed this myself) and their answer was simple "no we do not have any program in Petroleum Management".

http://www.nnpcgroup.com/PublicRelations/NNPCinthenews/tabid/92/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/52/EngrAusten-Oniwon-is-New-GMD-of-NNPC.aspx

koruji:
[size=14pt]It is either you want to be an Islamic proselyte or you want to lead a multi-religious nation - you can't do[/size] both.

The main issue is getting the right person in the right place. Afterall, there is no compulsion in religion, at least in Islam. Separation of church and state is not feasible in Nigeria.

GenBuhari:
Buhari does not want to islamize Nigeria, don't forget he was a Head of State and his focus then was the economy, so I do not understand your point.
Furthermore Buhari married a Christian wife, and his driver is a christian.
Buhari also chose a christian pastor as a running mate in the recent presidential elections.

But Buhari is not the mystry leader that this thread is about.

I am not sure whether you are Muslim yourself or not, and what you define Islamization as.
But if it means promoting Islamic values and teachings, then yes, Buhari cannot deny, it is his duty.