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INVESTIGATION: How Anthony Kila falsified all his academic qualifications – from Bachelor’s to Doctorate
This newspaper's enquiry into Mr Kila's academic credentials began five months ago with a probe into his professorship, a rank he publicly claimed for many years.

However, after investigating his professorship, this newspaper contacted the universities again.

In the emails, this newspaper also asked the universities to clarify whether they ever offered the academic programmes he claimed and whether he obtained them during the period he claimed. PREMIUM TIMES told the universities the information sought was in the public interest and for fact-checking.
This time, most replied, including City St George’s University of London, Aston University, the University of Perugia, Università per Stranieri, Perugia, and Università per Stranieri, Siena.

Universities disown Kila’s degrees
In its reply, Aston University disclaimed Mr Kila’s 2002 Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree.
“There is no record in Aston University’s student registry of an Anthony Kila studying for an MBA,” an Aston University spokesperson told our reporter in an email.

Aston University disown Mr Kila’s MBA
The City St George’s University of London told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Kila’s claims differ from its records. The institution, which said it provided the information only in the public interest, said Mr Kila enrolled in a one-year Banking and International Finance programme in 2000 but was ‘deregistered’ and didn’t complete it.

“They (Mr Kila) began their degree on 18/09/2000, with an expected end date of 31/10/2001,” the university’s press office told PREMIUM TIMES.
‘Their actual end date was 30/06/2001, and were deregistered from their course the same year. So, it appears they were on a one-year course that they did not complete.” It remains unclear which bachelor’s degree Mr Kila used in enrolling for the course and why he was deregistered.

Mr Kila also said he got a Postgraduate Diploma in Media and Communication from the University of Essex in 1992. But the university told PREMIUM TIMES that it doesn’t offer a PGD in Media and Communications and has never offered the programme. “We do not offer this course, and we have not offered this course in the past,” the university said in a live chat with our reporter.


While other universities did not respond specifically to Mr Kila’s case, they confirmed they do not offer the programmes and qualificationss he claimed from them.
For instance, the University of Perugia, where Mr Kila claims to have obtained his PhD in Political Economy in 1997, told this newspaper that its economics department does not award doctoral degrees in political economy. It also directed our reporter to its website, where it lists all its academic programmes.

“The Department of Economics offers a PhD programme in Economics – Institutions, Business, and Quantitative Methods,” the university said in an email to our reporter. The university’s website also shows it has never offered a doctorate in political economy.

The university’s political science department offers a PhD in four specialities: Legality, Political Cultures, Democracy and Politics/Public Policies/Globalisation. There is none in political economy. Mr Kila also claimed to have obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classic Studies from Università per Stranieri, Italy, in 1989, and a Master of Arts in European Studies from the same institution in 1991.

PREMIUM TIMES found more than one Università per Stranieri in Italy. There is one in Perugia and one in Siena. Although Mr Kila claimed he attended the one in Perugia, we contacted both. “At the following link you will find all the information relating to our undergraduate and graduate degree programmes,” the Perugia-based university told our reporter in an email.

A review of the institution’s historical records shows that it has never offered a BA in Classic Studies or an MA in European Studies. Yet, Mr Kila said he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the university. Our investigation revealed that the university never offered Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes during the period he claimed to have attended.

The university offers BA courses in International and Advertising Communication, Italian Language and Culture in the Digital World, Made in Italy, Food and Hospitality, and Social Sciences for Sustainability and International Cooperation.

The university offers Master’s courses in Advertising, Communication, Storytelling and Image Culture; Italian for Teaching Foreigners; International Relations and Development Cooperation; Italian Food Management and Culture; Teaching Italian as a Non-Native Language; Contemporary Journalism; and Urban and Territorial Regeneration and Resilience.

According to the university’s historical archive, it began offering Bachelor’s degrees only in 1992 and postgraduate degrees after 1999, following the implementation of the European Bologna Process, which established the modern two-year graduate degree framework. Before then, it only offered non-degree courses in Italian literature, the history of Italian art, and the history of Italian music. Yet, Mr Kila claimed he earned a BA from there in 1989 and an MA in 1991.

Even if Mr Kila claims he attended the Università per Stranieri in Siena, the courses he claims to have studied have never been offered there either. The university told PREMIUM TIMES in an email that it offers three degree programmes: Italian Language and Culture; Linguistic and Cultural Mediation; and Multilingualism, Translation and Interpreting.

At the Master’s level, the courses available are Letters, Teaching and Publishing; Linguistic Sciences and Intercultural Communication; Languages, Cooperation and Diversity; and Archaeology and Art Histories.

PREMIUM TIMES emailed these findings to Mr Kila and messaged him via his known WhatsApp line.
In his email reply, he said he was still contacting the institutions he associated with and couldn’t get the requested evidence in time.
“You are still on my case. I have been reading everything you have posted, and I still wonder who will benefit from my destruction,” he wrote to our reporter.

“I am currently putting together my academic and professional documents, and they will be ready soon. I started contacting the institutions I am associated with on Monday, and these documents cannot be ready by Thursday, as you are requesting here. As you can imagine, gathering these documents is a top priority for me.”


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Omo 419 dey Nigerians DNA

Was shocked.

The guy practically forged from birth. His Primary and Secondary certificates might even be fake.

Certified Crook

Afriifa:
Omo 419 dey Nigerians DNA

Point of Correction! Not Nigerians, but those People. 95% of them with Phd, answering “Doctor” falsified their results because they want to compete with the Yorubas.

Mr Kila is a creche dropout


“You are still on my case. I have been reading everything you have posted, and I still wonder who will benefit from my destruction,”

the statement dey tell me many things e dey hide.
the thing dey simple. just list your correct qualifications.
this should not take more than 1 day

Anguldi:
Mr Kila is a creche dropout


“You are still on my case. I have been reading everything you have posted, and I still wonder who will benefit from my destruction,”

Omor!
i mean to falsify everything?
na our fault for putting these people with british phoney on TV

na connection put the man up!

MartinCorridon:
Was shocked.

The guy practically forged from birth. His Primary and Secondary certificates might even be fake.

Certified Crook

When I found out that he was Tinubu's brother, I shuck my head.



Do you know the place called Oluwole and the people who invented that place?



This thing is becoming a cultural heritage.



🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very sad indeed so Nigeria has gotten to this level

That is why I love president Peter obi you can never see him associate with this petty criminals. This guy should have joined APC long time ago and his tracks will be covered in gold

the investigation plenti pass this. go read am for premiumtimes website.

e be like book

the man silence just dey raise more suspicion.

Lol… There are many people like him in Nigeria.

Some were born abroad or went to school overseas but never finished their studies or were expelled. Yet, because they speak good English, they forge certificates and return to Nigeria claiming to be experts or professors in certain fields

Majority of the time, they go into the humanities, where they can read a few books, research online, and suddenly start presenting themselves as authorities in a field

In Nigeria, good diction can take you places that actual qualifications and expertise should

do you how many scammers are working in corporate jobs in Nigeria with forge result from abroad, you will be suprised

usually people from wealthy and well-connected families.

we had them in schools, they usually don't study. just partying and eating.

motymop:
Lol… There are many people like him in Nigeria.

Some were born abroad or went to school overseas but never finished their studies or were expelled. Yet, because they speak good English, they forge certificates and return to Nigeria claiming to be experts or professors in certain fields

Majority of the time, they go into the humanities, where they can read a few books, research online, and suddenly start presenting themselves as authorities in a field

In Nigeria, good diction can take you places that actual qualifications and expertise should

do you how many scammers are working in corporate jobs in Nigeria with forge result from abroad, you will be suprised