Certificate scandals are fun in Nigeria. Remember disgraced Nigeriaâs finance minister, Kemi Adeosun? But thereâs a running story of one of Nigeriaâs so-called Amazons, Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke. In 2011, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission had sent a request to the City University of New Yorkâs Graduate School asking to know if the former Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Okereke-Onyiuke, had a PhD.
The response of the schoolâs Director of Student Services and Senior Registrar of CUNYâs Graduate School, Vincent De Luca, was startling.
The statement of the school obtained from the website quoted De Luca as saying, âOn January 18, 2011, I caused a search to be conducted of our student records (including graduation records) at The Graduate Center, at the request of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, to determine if Ms. Ndi OkerekeâOnyiuke was ever enrolled in the PhD programme in Business and if she
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