Wonders will indeed never end as the management of the Lagos State University (LASU) has withdrawn the PhD certificates of some of its members, including the Chairman of ASUU, LASU branch, Dr. Adekunle Idris.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Lagos zonal Coordinator, Dr. Sola Nasir, confirmed this development at a press briefing held at the old LASU Sociology Department lecture hall. He said it was necessitated due to errors discovered in their Phd.
He said there are 14 other lecturers with such errors on their Phd and that for LASU Senate to have made those errors, it places a question mark on the people that make up the Senate as he sees it as victimization some of the affected people.
Reacting to the development, Dr Adekunle Idris who was one of those affected, said he concluded his PhD in 2011 and was issued the certificate in 2012 which was signed by the current Vice Chancellor, Prof John Obafunwa and the former Registrar, Lateef Animashaun.
According to him, he fulfilled all the conditions before being issued the PhD certificate and is surprised that they are now withdrawing it which he says is a backlash of the last ASUU strike as accreditation is coming up in December and 5 of the lecturers whose certificates were withdrawn are from a department that will face the National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation team. He also sees this as an act of victimization as Dr Idris has a PhD is in Business Admin (Marketing).
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as PhD, Ph.D., D.Phil., is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and a person who attains a doctorate of philosophy is automatically awarded the academic title of doctor.
However, in the context of academic degrees, the term philosophy does not refer solely to the field of philosophy, but is used in a broader sense in accordance with its original Greek meaning, which is "love of wisdom". It is usually required for the student to hold an Honours degree or a Master's Degree with high academic standing, in order to be considered for a PhD programme.
A candidate must submit a project or thesis or dissertation often consisting of a body of original academic research, which is in principle worthy of publication in a peer-reviewed context. In many countries a candidate must defend this work before a panel of expert examiners appointed by the university.
What exactly is going on in LASU? why all this at this time? is there really a check and balance system operated in such situations? I wonder how all this will pan out eventually.
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