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An interesting news item in a Nigerian newspaper, ThisDay caught my attention. It reported that by last week, 2,047 people had signed a petition asking Yale University to withdraw the honorary doctorate degree awarded to Nigeria’s Economy and Finance Minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The minister, alongside eight others, had been awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters on May 18 during Yale’s Commencement ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut.
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