PRESIDENT GOODLUCK FINISHED HIS PHD THESIS: - University of Port Harcourt The University of Port Harcourt, has debunked rumors that President Jonathan did not finish his Ph.D thesis in the institution. The university said the rumors were baseless. The University’s Deputy Registrar (Information), Dr. William Wodi, in a statement, said, “The authorities of the University of Port Harcourt are aware of rumours that are now spreading like harmattan fire over the doctoral degree status of President Goodluck Jonathan. “The allegations have neither legs nor grounds to stand on and we hope that its purveyors will now rest in silence. “For the avoidance of doubt, the authorities of the University wish to state without equivocation that Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, as he then was, was among 422 students, who matriculated in 1977. He was admitted into the then Department of Zoology, now Animal and Environmental Biology in the then School of Biological Sciences, now a Faculty in the new College of Natural and Applied Sciences. “At the end of a successful residency period, Jonathan was awarded the Bachelor of Science (Upper Division) in 1981. It was rumoured among students that the young university was reluctant to award the First Class to its pioneer class in an effort to consolidate its academic profile.” According to Wodi, President Jonathan later enrolled into the postgraduate programme and obtained the Master of Science degree in Hydrobiology and Fisheries in 1985 and crowned his academic pursuit in the University with the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Zoology in 1995. Wodi added that the institution remains proud of President Jonathan. “From the above account, it has become obvious that Dr. Jonathan successfully completed the prescribed courses and programmes as specified by the Senate of the University of Port Harcourt to earn his degrees from the university.” “We have absolutely nothing to hide as an institution that has a statutory mandate to advance the frontiers of knowledge,”. [QED]
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:58:30 +0000
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