The last few weeks have been taken over by the controversy over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his certificates. Did he or did he not attend school? If so, which schools, when, where and how? Did he or did he not have certificates? If so, what certificate, when and which school or schools? How did he attend school: As a …

Even as those who flew thousands of kilometres across the Atlantic, drove several kilometres and walked a million steps in search of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s status at the Chicago State University (CSU) are back – empty handed – and the chief mourners and their bitter sympathisers have refused to go home, it is fit and proper to intervene in …

Former Vice President and roundly defeated presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was a pitiful sight to behold on Thursday at the Shehu Yar”Adua Centre, Abuja as he sat like a wreck after addressing what he called a world press conference. He had gone on a wild goose chase to the United States in search of President Bola Tinubu’s certificate. The …

The Chicago State University (CSU) has said that the diploma certificate submitted by President Bola Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was valid. CSU’s Registrar, Caleb Westberg also said that President Tinubu graduated from the institution on 29th June 1979. According to Westberg, whatever discrepancies that may exist in either date, font, signature or seal in the earlier …

Both pro- and anti-Tinubu news outlets and blogs are selectively reporting the documents that Chicago State University (CSU) handed over to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday. Here are six non-partisan tidbits I discovered from poring over them: 1. CSU’s Office of the Registrar affirmed that Bola A. Tinubu indeed attended the university “from August 1977 through June 1979” and …

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago has ordered Chicago State University (CSU) to produce President Bola Tinubu‘s “only all relevant, non-privileged documents” academic records to Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. In her ruling on President Tinubu’s emergency application in case No. 23 CV 05099, Judge Nancy L. Maldonado  directed CSU …

The CSU certificate issue poses a huge burden to Tinubu and Nigeria’s value system. How far he goes in handling it, will go a long way in determining his reputation in the court of public opinion. By Emeka Alex Duru No matter how one tries not to bother at the certificate issue involving President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chicago State …

The Chicago State University (CSU), on Thursday, confirmed that President Bola Tinubu attended the institution and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor’s degree. In a statement issued to CBS Broadcasting Inc. (generally referred to as CBS News), one of America’s biggest and most influential news network, the institution pointed out that United States’ federal law, prevents it us from providing …

English humorist, satirist, and author Terry Pratchett once said: “If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong”. Origins are important because they give a sense …