Sunday, in his petition stated that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is not deserving of the honorary degree as the Nigerian economy has taken a nose dive since she assumed office as Minister of Finance. A thousand Nigerians have so far signed the petition.
His petition below
"YALE UNIVERSITY GAVE ITS PRESTIGIOUS HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE TO AN UNDESERVING NIGERIAN":Ngozi Iweala, the outgoing Nigeria's finance minister was awarded a honorary doctorate degree by Yale University on May 15, 2015.
The citation from the Yale University reads:"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Doctor of Humane Letters. You are a citizen of your country, your continent, and the world. Shaped by challenging experiences during your childhood in Nigeria, you have made social and economic reform your mission. As Nigeria’s coordinating minister of economic development and minister of finance, you have tackled corruption, created a vision and path to long-term economic stability, and worked to build a culture of transparency. At the World Bank, you made food security a priority and provided policy advice and capital for the world’s poorest countries.
With wisdom, a fierce dedication to doing what is right, and unflagging energy, you have transformed the economic landscape of your nation. We are proud to name you Doctor of Humane Letter" This citation from the Yale University does not reflect nor represent everything that has happened under the watch and the supervision of the Nigerian economy by Ngozi Iweala as the nation's finance minister. There is no tangible evidence of any economic development in Nigeria under the leadership of Ngozi Iweala in all reality. Nigeria's economy is still an oil-dependent economy that is debt and borrowing ridden as well as 100% consuming and importing in nature.
Nigeria's debt profile has risen rapidly under Ngozi Iweala and Nigeria has borrowed over $2 billion in the last four months alone to pay salaries of the federal and state civil servants. Our foreign reserves and excess crude oil accounts have both depleted heavily under Ngozi Iweala. The recurrent expenditures in the federal budgets reached the highest levels which made capital development practically impossible in Nigeria under Ngozi Iweala.
The board of regents of this ivy league school missed it completely by awarding their prestigious honorary doctorate degree to an undeserving Nigerian in all truth, honesty and reality. The Nigeria's economy has remained the same under Ngozi Iweala without any evidence of its diversity from oil.
The Nigerian Naira crashed to its lowest value in its history under Ngozi Iweala. The true picture that Yale University missed is the fact that the economy of Nigeria has almost grounded to its final halt today which will makes its a daunting task for the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari to meet its campaign promises.
The menace of official corruption and financial scandals have both reached their peaks in Nigeria under Ngozi Iweala. A central bank governor was fired for disclosing that $20 billion was missing from the federal coffers and this allegation was investigated in a shady and questionable manner. The oil subsidy scam that cheated Nigeria's tax payers of trillions of Naira was coordinated and supervised by Ngozi Iweala.
The culture of official corruption and state resource mismanagement were both honored, celebrated, protected and defended under the leadership of Ngozi Iweala as the supervising coordinator of the Nigerian economy. To give a honorary doctorate degree to an undeserving Nigerian by this world's reknown university is the biggest slap on the faces of the 180 million Nigerians in 2015. I am using this social medium to appeal to the board of regents of this prestigious university to withdraw this honorary degree that they awarded to this Nigerian immediately and without any further delay for the sake of posterity
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 259 of 259rubbish she deserves it. joor. wetin una sabi
silly Nigerians
she has a good record even with the world bank and imf and they still want her to work with them so u guys should stop hating
I agree with Sunday completely
hater will always hate. but God will hold his own high
APC sponsored post, we know your style. U had better lived up to d expectations you guys gave us while campaigning and stop all this "there is no money in Nigerian treasury ". That's my take on the whole matter
Akuko. Yale is not UNN
Let the dram continue ...
Shame on you if they didn't attend to your petition! bunch of sadist!!!
Mr.Sunday, must be a block head. When she helped to get debt forgiveness, was that not to the benefit of our economy?. When our economy grew by 7% and was Africa's fastest and one of the world's emerging markets, what was that?. Someone who is close to him, should go and advice him very well. He should stop making a fool of himself.
Mr. Sunday should stop making a fool of himself. He knows the score.
If I hear say den withdraw am
Nigerians are very stubborn people including this so called lawyer that wrote the petition. This same lady tried to save our neck in so many ways but we refused. My man ask Ameachi what happened to the monies from the excess crude account that should have been saved for the rainy day?. The governors asked for it to be shared amongst them. Chop chop chop chop chop. The money don finish. He came again 2 days ago to ask the finance minister for a $20billion they had already spent. Amaechi is a wizard, the antichrist. Okonjo Iweala said that she will publish figures from the federation account in a few days time so that everybody will know the truth. While at it Amaechi should also give stewardship of his stay as governor of Rivers state and publish his state account. Thief.
Is Okonjo Iweala Minister of Power or Minister of Petroluem. Abeg they should leave this woman alone. She don try.if it was a military administration she would have done better because she can not force her recommendations on us.
I laugh when I here say dem give her award. Make I go sign too. Yeye dey smell.
From the comment I read here, its obvious Nigerian not tired of their suffering yet. Someone should point out what is not true this post rather than just ranting.
Udom will just shut up your fat stinking mouth! What do you know? Ehn? Idiot
It has nothing to do with the yorubas, she doesn't deserve it. Period!
Stop bringing tribe to this matter abeg.
Bad belly!! You can go and collect the award from her.You that is frett like this you can not do better if her work is given to you.
We are watching the margic that will happen
THE BITTER TRUTH IS THAT OKONJO'S PERFORMANCE ON THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY IS BELOW PAR.
SOME PEOPLE WILL HASTILY BRAND THIS GUY A "BAD BELLE" AND IGNORE THE COGENT FACTS HE HAS PRESENTED.
BECAUSE IT IS THE "FIRST TIME" A NIGERIAN IS GETTING IT, IS NOT A JUSTIFICATION FOR CONDEMNING THIS MAN.
Everybody agreed Dora Akunyili worked in all position she held in this country. How will our leaders start taking us seriously when we cannot use the powers we have against them. The withdrawal of this award will not reduce Ngozi Iweala but it will send a message that Nigerians have had enough
Yale will not pay attention to one Yoruba tribalist who thinks that it is only Yoruba people that are supposed to be controlling Nigeria's economy. Since Yoruba's have been ministers of finance what happened? This is pure jealousy and tribalism to an Igbo woman. By and large whoever this Iwalaiye is, this will hunt him in life. Yale knows what stuff Ngozi is made of and will pay no attention to any gibberish.
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala keep soaring high, haters gonna hate, that's the world we live in. Heart of man is desperately wicked. Yale won't even look at the so called piece of trash they petitioned.
This one is isale-eko blogging o.. The article doesn't even have the petition link to prove authenticity of the tori.
Exactly you know absolutely nothing about economics so shut shut up. She is the most deserving Nigetian for the award and anyway all the bad belle of some Yorubas and Hausas put together will not change a thing. Hahahahah
BY AWARDING SOMEONE LIKE MADAM NGOZI, A LOT IS LEFT TO BE CONCLUDED FROM THE INTENTIONS OF THIS OYINBO PEOPLE.
OBVIOUSLY IT'S AN ORCHESTRATED EFFORT TO DECEIVE NIGERIANS. THEY ENJOY WHEN WE ACCEPT AND EMBRACE MEDIOCRITY OR EVEN FAILURE.
EVEN MY DOGS KNOWS MADAM NGOZI HAVE SCORED BELOW ZERO IN TERMS OF MANAGING NIGERIAN ECONOMY.
HER TENURE IS A GRAND FAILURE THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR GENERATION AND GENERATIONS TO COME IN THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA
You really do sound daft.
Thank you o..jealousy go die...osuimi go quench.
Jealousy go kill you. Idiot. Suddenly you know more than a 314 year old institution.
That award should be withdrawn ASAP for the sake of posterity. Very corrupt woman. Nonsense. I think people should should stop this tribal sentiment to justify rubbish!
Isha said;
Iyoruba and their tribalism and hatred to other, only God can help them.
Bad belle all over the place. I wonder if they can see anything good in this great woman called Okonjo Iweala.
Achievement our backside!!!!!! all of what she's being honored for is a liar from the pit of hell, she achieved nothing for nigeria
This petition will not erased the fact that Okonjo Iweala created a strong and viable economy that will stand the test of time. Okonjo Iweala will continue to be honoured by Nigerians and foreigners for her work as the Finance Minister of Nigeria.
What is the essence of this petition? It is nothing but an attempt to rubbish the hard earned reputation of Okonjo iweala. By God’s grace, her reputation will remain intact.
Useless yoruba man, jealosy and and envy will soon kill you. Dr Iweala is worlf recognised economist, top of the tops and there is nothing you or your tribal bigots can do to change that.
Na wa o Linda,u sha managed to filter all d comments against NOI & just showing those in support of her. Comments i made against her before any comments were visible are not showing. Don't start bothering on junk journalism & tribal sentiments,its a show stopper...a word they say is enough for d ...
JOBless and Ugly ass hater, IWEALA IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE AN ACHIEVER!!
Bad belly you Yoruba's. Coward yorubas
She is evil in nature, sincerely speaking she does not deserves it
Anonymous you sound dumb,daft and senseless.
Don't be silly. My comments have not been uploaded too and i support Okonjo Iweala's honorary degree strongly. The fact is that more people support her because not every body is as daft as you are shmm!
YOU JUST SAID IT. YOU ARE AS STUPID AND DAFT AS YOUR DOGS.
Aside 4rm hate or no hate, truly okonjo iweala hs ₳ gr8 A̶̲̥̅̊₪d̶̲̥̅̊ tremendous history amongst women in nigeria buh wђã† I sees in her is al corruption
I dont know about her not deserving
I dont know about her not deserving
Amen haters go hug transformer
Amen
People like you are one of the reasons why Nigeria is the way it is. Clueless, short-sighted and tribalism!! I sorry
Why won't she get an award. thier govt sent her to plunge Nigeria once more into systemic debt, she has delivered. Now she's awarded for it. Smh.
Why won't she get an award. thier govt sent her to plunge Nigeria once more into systemic debt, she has delivered. Now she's awarded for it. Smh.
Defo. Makes no sense countries economy is in ruins
Abdulmumin Jibrin to needs a wake up call
Exactly! She is only seeking relevance
I usually never comment on anything and try to remain impartial in my views but WOW, na wo oo, shooo- I'm actually appalled at this petition. Where are the facts? Evidence? Nothing apart from a whole lot of hearsay. If you have anything against Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and you feel she should pay for whatever she did, this is not the way to do it. For starters carry out investigations, get your facts right - this type of behaviour in Nigeria where everyone and I mean EVERYONE has an OPINION on everything with no limit is unbecoming. Contrary to popular belief, this petition makes us as a people look like we all have Phd syndrome (pull him down).
There is a reason why Okonjo is highly respected in the international field to the point of being a strong contender to be the next President of the World Bank - a financial institution that prides itself on controlling the finance of the world may I add. She gave up all of that to come serve her fatherland and is repaid with this? The least you can give the woman if you have any grievances against her is to respect her with facts not just venomous hatred.
Some people will rather see things destroyed than speak up against their kinsmen. I am still surprised when i hear people say GEJ is the best president Nigeria has produced, despite the fact that they can see things practically crumbling under him. Rather than face facts, they hold on to sentiments. So i am not surprised they are attacking this man over his opinion, he gave reasons why he felt NOK didnt deserve the award, not one of all the people that attacked him countered his claims, all they did was insult him. Just last year sept a pound was equal to 276 naira(it was already bad) and within 7months it had risen to 330naira and we have reports that about N$20billion was missing under this woman's watch,Yet people feel she deserves the award. People should give their reasons why they support she deserves it rather than insult people, their mums and yorubas. Some easterners are quick to bear their fangs and call yorubas tribalistic but they do same. Not one of all the people that insulted WOS apologised even after they found out he was mis-quoted. Until we learn to face facts rather than sentiments, we are not ready to move foward, we are not ready for change.
Linda pls get us the link for the petition. I want to sign. People should not be praised for doing poorly irrespective of tribe.
She deserves no award.
Hmmmm
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