The National Universities Commission
(NUC) has disclosed that, contrary to claims
in some quarters, any certificate obtained
from the Kaduna Satellite Campus of the
Ambrose Alli University is fraudulent and a
scam.
Deputy Director Press of the NUC, Ibrahim
Yakassai disclosed, this to The Nigerian
Times when our reporter called to confirm
the status of the institution and certificates
earned from it.
He said: “It is fraudulent and a scam. There
is no such thing like Ambrose Alli
University, Kaduna Study Center. The NUC
is not aware of such.”
The Nigerian Times recalls that the Sunday
Trust Newspaper in the story, ‘Now, Hajiya
Aisha Buhari steps out’, published January
18, 2015 had reported that the beautiful
wife of General Muhammadu Buhari, the
presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), had bagged a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ambrose
Alli University, Ekpoma (Kaduna satellite
campus). She later proceeded, based on the
same degree, to obtain a Master’s degree in
International Affairs and Strategic Studies
from the Nigerian Defence Academy,
Kaduna.
The NUC in a directive in 2001, under
former Executive Secretary Peter
Okebukola to all Vice-Chancellors, had
directed all university satellite campuses to
be shut down. While most Universities
complied, few others were adamant,
leading to another directive by the present
Executive Secretary Professor Julius Okojie,
to re-affirm the initial directive that all
universities in the country running
external campuses (satellite campuses) be
shut down.
A satellite campus, according to the NUC
guidelines on which basis the illegal ones
were closed down, “must not be more than
200 kilometres from the main campus,”
“must not be located in a state outside the
state in which the main campus is located,”
“must have staff of the satellite campus
directly or indirectly appointed by the
main campus in line with laid down
academic standards.”
According to Sunday Trust, Mrs. Buhari
enrolled in the undergraduate programme
of the Ambrose Alli University and received
lectures at its Leventis Building satellite
campus, Kaduna.
The Newspaper also reported that she holds
a National Certificate in Education (NCE)
from the National Teachers Institute (NTI)
alongside a Diploma in Beauty Therapy at
the Carlton Institute of Beauty Therapy,
Windsor, in the United Kingdom and a
certificate course from the French Beauty
School, Esthetique Academie Dubai. She is a
member of the United Kingdom’s
Vocational Training and Charitable Trust
and the International Health and Beauty
Council.
Speaking to The Nigerian Times, a former
coordinator of one the satellite campuses of
the university who asked to be anonymous,
said while some campuses were able to
insert records of some students of the
satellite campuses into the general
students’ records at the main campus,
others were just issued certificates without
recourse to the parent school.
He said while the certificates of those
whose records where successfully entered
into the school’s main record could claim
some level of validity, the others remain
invalid.
He said: “The campuses started in 1998 and
were all officially closed in 2002.
“Some of the campuses at the earlier stages
would get someone from the main campus
in Ekpoma to invigilate the examinations
and under some arrangements would then
register the students’ particulars in the
record of the university. After this, those
certificates got a value of validity.
“However, after sometime some centers
started issuing certificates to their students
in the name of the parent university
without any recourse to record keeping
and so when employers or schools of post
graduate studies contacted Ekpoma for
verification, the records of most of them
were not found. These developments
finally led to the NUC’s hammer on those
centers.”
Every effort to get responses from the
Registrar of the University, Mr. Ojo Maliki
and Public Relations Officer of the
university, proved abortive. While mails
where not responded to, calls from our
reporter were treated with rude and
evasive responses. A University officer,
who craved anonymity, told this newspaper
that Edo being an APC state, the authorities
are extremely careful not to get caught in
Nigeria’s fractious political scandal

Hmmmmmmmmm,the game now getting dangerous.

Hmmm. All diz lies u people are sharing...........
.....Diaris God ooo!

Certificate no certificate oo..she is our. First lady

Like Husband Like Wife



GEJ till the Buharis go to sch

All political propaganda..

What's our business worth her certificate? is she contesting any post? Our Mama Peace whose certificate is original has been killing other people's children educationally as we learnt she was a biology teacher in a school before her husband joined politics. I beg, cut the Buharis some slack.