Professor Aize Obayan, a former Vice Chancellor of Covenant
University, Ota has been suspended from her position as director of
the Education Commission of the Winners Chapel by the church's general
overseer, Bishop David Oyedepo.
Ms. Obayan was suspended for reportedly altering examination results
for several students in the department of Mass Communications. Among
the students who benefited from the former VC's grade alteration was
Ms. Obayan's own daughter.
The former VC's daughter graduated with a Second Class Upper Division
in Mass Communication and is currently doing her National Youth
Service Corps service.
A source at the university revealed that Ms. Obayan inflated all of
her daughter's scores, otherwise the young woman would have earned a
Third Class degree.
Our source added that the former VC had re-introduced make-up
examination without proper authorization – and after the university's
Senate had abolished the option. "She introduced make-up exam to
enable her daughter [to] retake the course she failed," said a source.
Recently, a Dr. Omojola, a lecturer in the Department of Mass
Communication, petitioned the Chancellor of the University after his
first protest was suppressed by the then VC. In his protest, Mr.
Omojola alleged that Nnamdi Ekeanyanwu, the acting Head of Department
of Mass Communication, had engaged in extensive alteration of
students' examination results. The petition led to Mr. Ekeanyanwu's
removal as Head of Department. Dr. Stanley Ngoa replaced him, but
spent only the 2011-2012 session at the helm, before the former VC
reappointed Dr. Ekeanyawu to return as departmental head.
Our source indicated that, with Dr. Ekeanyanwu's return, the
fraudulent practice of grade alteration worsened in the Mass
Communication Department and across other departments of the
university, including Chemistry where one student's score was raised
to 45% from 5 %, an outright failure. Associate Professor Taiwo
Abioye, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, headed a panel
appointed by the Chancellor, Professor C.K. Ayo, to investigate the
case. Dr. Ekeanyanwu was summoned by the panel to defend himself on
charges of altering examination scores of students, including Miss
Obayan, for monetary benefits. He not only accepted his guilt for all
the charges, but also confessed that he acted in collusion with the
former VC, Professor Obayan.
Ms. Obayan was also invited to appear before the Abioye panel, but
she reportedly offered no defense.
Pastor Faith Oyedepo, wife of Bishop Oyedepo, has taken over the
duties of Ms. Obayan at the church's secretariat. SaharaReporters
learned that plans were underway to return Dr. Daniel Rotimi to the
Education Commission. Mr. Rotimi was a one-time registrar of the
University. SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Rotimi, who is a pastor,
last year married a second wife (a former student at Covenant
University) in his quest for a male child. He and his first wife had
only girls. A lecturer at Covenant University told SaharaReporters
that he wondered whether the university could really realize its much
touted claim of raising a new generation of African leaders when top
officials at the school offer examination grades for sale?
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