Who is really a professor? The Kila case and the cost of unverified titles, By Sunday Ogunlana
One widely followed Nigerian activist has used “Dr” “Professor Mgbeke” since 2013 on the strength of a conferment from a body that is not a university, and her own biography says she was “appointed Professor” at a small for-profit American school two years before she completed a doctorate.
A false title survives for exactly as long as no one asks for the record, and in Nigeria we have stopped asking.
The question for every editor, appointing authority, and governing council in the country is simple: why did no one ask?
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