‘Why LASU awarded 19 PhD certificates in error’

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The Lagos State University (LASU) has said that it decided to withdraw the 19 PhD certificates suspected to be awarded in error in order to check the “certificate mess” in the institution.

Briefing journalists at the weekend, the LASU Vice-Chancellor, Prof John Obafunwa, said that the errors in the certificate were discovered when one of the owners refused to collect hers on the grounds that she was awarded PhD certificate in the programme she did not enrol for.
The VC also said the “certificate mess” was part of the rot in the university, adding that the Senate of the institution was committed to streamlining the problems of “double honours” in the certificates and rectify those awarded for the programmes not run by the university. He said: “Somebody complained to the university’s Senate that she was given a PhD in certificate in a programme that she did not enrol in.
Specifically, she said that what she enrolled for was MPhil/PhD International Business. She told the Senate that she was given a PhD certificate in Business Administration and Marketing and that person refused to collect the certificate. “I didn’t even know anything about it until it came to the fore.
The case came to the Senate not to Professor Obafunwa. And the Senate directed the Dean of Post- Graduate School, Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences to go and bring all the materials relating to these things.
The PhD certificates that they have awarded over the last three to four years. We asked them to let us look at the documents and they came with 19. “The Senate spent about three hours debating this particular issue.
Members of the Senate were able to categorise everything into about three groups. I think about eight of them or so, virtually have no problems. “Although the Senate decided that it will like to see their certificates of conversion and what they were admitted for in the first instance. Eight of them were given PhD in the areas they actually enrolled for, but the Senate wanted the documentation.http://newtelegraphonline.com/why-lasu-awarded-19-phd-certificates-in-error/