{"id":83536,"date":"2023-09-15T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=83536"},"modified":"2023-09-15T21:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:22:44","slug":"again-chicago-state-university-reasserts-tinubus-graduation-in-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/again-chicago-state-university-reasserts-tinubus-graduation-in-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Chicago State University Reasserts Tinubu’s Graduation in 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There has been controversy surrounding Tinubu\u2019s academic record with the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filing a lawsuit in the US to compel CSU officials to turn over Tinubu\u2019s academic documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, CSU told CBS that it was confident in the veracity and integrity of its records regarding Tinubu\u2019s completion of graduation requirements and degree certificate, but was restrained by the United States federal law to provide any further information about Tinubu\u2019s record, without consent or unless allowed to do so via court order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement from the Chicago State University on Tinubu published by CBS on Thursday reads, \u201cAs an educational institution, we are sometimes asked to provide information related to student records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFederal law known as FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) protects the privacy of student records and limits what an institution can release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn August 2023, a request was made in U.S. federal court for the university to provide information related to educational records concerning Bola Tinubu, the President of Nigeria, and a former CSU student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe university has confirmed Tinubu attended CSU and graduated in 1979 with a bachelor\u2019s degree. Federal law, however, prevents us from providing any further information without consent or unless allowed to do so via court order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCSU is confident in the veracity and integrity of our records regarding Tinubu\u2019s completion of graduation requirements and degree certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe university is not a party to the Nigerian legal proceedings that spurred this request, and a U.S. federal judge will determine whether the university will provide further requested information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur response to the request for Tinubu\u2019s academic records has been entirely consistent with our practices, policies, and federal law. We would respond in exactly the same manner for any request for any student information by a third party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chicago State University confirmed to American news network, CBS, that President Bola Tinubu graduated from the institution in 1979 with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Business and Administration. There has been controversy surrounding Tinubu\u2019s academic record with the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filing a lawsuit in the US to compel CSU officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,3],"tags":[2500,6826],"class_list":["post-83536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-tinubu","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83538,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536\/revisions\/83538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}