Founded in 1867 as the Cook County Normal School, the Chicago State University is a predominantly black public university in Chicago, Illinois. It was an innovative teachers college. Eventually the Chicago Public Schools assumed control of the school from the county and it became Chicago Teachers College.
The Chicago State University, one of the prominent American Universities, has locked its X account, previously known as Twitter, after Nigerians called out the institution over issues around the certificate issued to President Bola Tinubu.
Founded in 1867 as the Cook County Normal School, the Chicago State University is a predominantly black public university in Chicago, Illinois. It was an innovative teachers college. Eventually the Chicago Public Schools assumed control of the school from the county and it became Chicago Teachers College.
Recently, the institution has caught the prying eyes of Nigerians in diaspora over controversy surrounding the certificate it issued to President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria which has been under question.
There are two diploma certificates purporting to have been issued to Mr Tinubu by CSU on June 22, 1979 and June 27, 1979.
The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had gone to court in United to compel the university to produce Tinubu’s academic records.
In response to the Application submitted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate for the February 25 election, Atiku Abubakar, the university last week gave conditions to grant access to President Bola Tinubu’s credentials from the school.
The University had said until it was provided with concrete reasons on how granting access to Tinubu’s credentials was relevant to the elections, it was only then that it would grant what had been asked.
“The student records Abubakar seeks from the University via a documents subpoena (Doc.1-1) and the information Abubakar seeks the University to provide under a deposition subpoena (Doc. 1-2) concern Tinubu’s private educational records. But since Tinubu has intervened to oppose this discovery, the University defers to Tinubu on the privacy issues implicated by Abubakar’s Application.” the document stated.
It further said, “The University struggles to understand how – given that Tinubu did graduate from the University in 1979 – Tinubu’s grades and other student records from the 1970s and date and signatory information on subsequently issued ceremonial diplomas could have any bearing on a 2023 election challenge in a foreign country.
