Group accuses FUL VC Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi of Corruption, awards of Honorary Doctorate degrees for Financial Donations”

Group operating under the aegis of Transparency Movement team has faulted the conferment of honorary doctorates degrees by the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) to five prominentNigerians during the 5th Convocation Ceremony of the Institution. It alleges that they were done for financial donations and contravening policies against the award of Honorary degrees to serving government officials, amongst other reasons advanced.

The group further accused the School Vice-Chancellor of the Institution, Prof. OlayemiAkinwunmi, of corruption.

In a statement made available to journalists in Lokoja and jointly signed by Cosmas Timothy and Ali Bawa Musa, respectively, the group called on the anti-graft agency to probe the activities of the Vice-chancellor of the University as they ignored all widely held academic practices endorsed by the Universities regulatory body in the Keffi declaration of Universities in the award of Honorary degrees and instead allowed their inducements by financial donations to proliferate and determine the choice of so-called cash for carry honorary doctorate recipients.

They said the call was necessary because of the high level of alleged corruption currently ongoing in the University.

The group beckoned on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission to hearken to them

The statement reads that during the 5th Convocation Ceremony of the Federal University Lokoja (FUL), five (5) prominent Nigerians were conferred with Honorary Doctorate Degrees (Honoris Causa) by the Institution

We have it on good authority that the Institution Vice-Chancellor demanded some financial gratification from the beneficiaries as a basis for awards.

There is serious Corruption in FUL as the VC of the Institution Prof Olayemi Akinwumi has proliferated awards of honorary Doctorate Degree for Financial Donations, ignoring academic practices in the procedures for selecting awardees, contravening the maximum number of awardees in convocation and dishing out degrees in courses, the University lacks the license to award Doctorates and awarding honorary degrees to cronies who are serving government officials. This practice is dangerous for our educational sector. We are appealing to anti-graft agenciesand regulatory body the National Universities Commission (NUC) to investigate this act, the group further alleged.

It could be recalled that the following person conferred with honorary doctorates degrees by the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) recently, the includes

1 AIG (Rtd) Cornelius Kayode Aderanti, SSA to the President of on Special Duty: Doctor of Science in Political science (Honoris Causa)

2. Dr Innocent Ozoemana Ezuma, the Lord Mayor in the Ancient Kingdom of Arondizuogu: Doctor of Science in Geology (Honoris Causa)

3. Alhaji (Dr) Sani Zangor Daura CON, Danmasanin Daura: Doctor of Science in Political Science (Honoris Causa)

4. Jibril Lawal Tafida, Chairman/CEO of JITA Group of Companies: Doctor of Science in Economics (Honoris Causa)

5. Professor Toyin Falola, Professor of African History and Jacob and Frances Sanger MossikerChair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA: Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa).

https://leaders.ng/group-accuses-ful-vc-prof-olayemiakinwunmi-of-corruption-awards-of-honorary-doctorate-degrees-for-financial-donations/

Whether true or false, curruption has gone deep in to every sector in Nigeria.

Can't tame it but can mend it.

J

Naija my country
Well corruption is inherent in every one just that the baton has not been passed to you and I yet...
If the baton enter my hand ehnnnn.... Chaiii

I

Thunder fire Zenith bank. Very useless bank.

Waste side professors and criminal tendency are like dicck and pusssy , they go together.

Not surprised sha, our next incoming president is from the waste side and a legendary thief at that.

Fraud in the academia

Fraud everywhere in Nigeria.
Corruption, fraud, insincerity, bad leadership are the major problem in this country.
Haaaa Nija

Wetin Musa no go see for gate

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Apart from one of them in active political service, I do not see any other one there.

It might just be the work of some disgruntled people who perhaps feel they or their people should have been given also.

Cotonou pro max

Bad belle. How much where you paid for this

Those space bookers up there sha

Vc sef nah scammer

Professor Toyin Falola, Professor of African History and Jacob and Frances Sanger MossikerChair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA: Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) is an accomplished scholar.
What does he need an Honorary Doctorate Degree for?
University of Texas at Austin is one the best universities in the world founded in
1883.
As of November 2020, 13 Nobel Prize winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, two Turing Award winners, two Fields medalists, two Wolf Prize winners, and two Abel prize winners have been affiliated with the school as alumni, faculty members or researchers. The university has also been affiliated with three Primetime Emmy Award winners, and as of 2021 its students and alumni have earned a total of 155 Olympic medals.

End time vc

He did it. He can't deny it. I saw him

All these egbira and igala hungry groups

IbileIfe:
Professor Toyin Falola, Professor of African History and Jacob and Frances Sanger MossikerChair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA: Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) is an accomplished scholar.
What does he need an Honorary Doct.orate Degree for?

That should tell you that jealous infidels are behind the faceless translucent group

Hmmm

Money don change hand

Praxtech:

That should tell you that jealous infidels are behind the faceless translucent group

Pull him Down (PhD) group against the VC?

Sighssssss

Is there any place corruption has not creeped into in Nigeria?

The obsession for quick money doesn't know degrees anymore

goodrad:
He did it. He can't deny it. I saw him

Keep your evidence. U will present it in court. Will send u court invitation as soon as the case begin

AnonPoet:
Group accuses FUL VC Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi of Corruption, awards of Honorary Doctorate degrees for Financial Donations”



https://leaders.ng/group-accuses-ful-vc-prof-olayemiakinwunmi-of-corruption-awards-of-honorary-doctorate-degrees-for-financial-donations/

E get anywhere wey corruption never enter for Naija?

cpu2006:


Keep your evidence. U will present in court. Will send u court invitation as soon as the case begin

Okay

Ok