Stella Oduah, Nigeria's Minister of Aviation
who is embroiled in a scandal of towering
proportions in the ministry, faces new
integrity questions as her Masters' degree
has been challenged by the United States
school which supposedly awarded it.
Her resume, which she presented to the Senate
as a ministerial nominee in 2011, indicated she
obtained a Master's degree in Business
Administration (MBA) from St. Paul's College
Lawrenceville, Virginia, United States.
But SaharaReporters has learned from the
President of the college that it has never in its
125-year history had a graduate school or
graduate program.
The Provost Vice President of Academic Affairs,
and the Vice President of Institutional
Development said in response to our inquiries,
"We don't offer any graduate programs here."
Similarly, the school's website states: "Saint
Paul's College is accredited by the Commission
of Colleges of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate
[bachelor's] degrees." There is no mention of
graduate degrees.
The Minister's documentation shows she
received an undergraduate degree in accounting
from the college in 1982, but Dr. Claud Flythe,
St. Paul's current president, could neither
confirm nor deny this during a phone
conversation with SaharaReporters. Further
verification with the Office of Alumni Affairs is
also currently impossible, the school said,
because the college has been closed since June
2013 to loss of its accreditation.
"[Oduah] realized very early in life the
indispensability of a sound education in her
growth plans in life and therefore pursued her
education with all diligence and sense of
purpose," her documents claimed, adding that a
determination "to have the best education at
the highest level" prompted her stay at the
Virginia college in 1983 for the MBA programme.
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