A Facebook user claims that the daughter of Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) recently graduated from the University of Chicago.
The post, which has since been widely shared and republished by bloggers, sarcastically congratulates the president of ASUU and thanked him for keeping students at home while his daughter studied abroad.
Attached to the claim is a collage of pictures showing a lady who took a pose with non-Nigerian students. The same attachment also featured Mr. Osodeke. The claim is FALSE.
Here is what we know …
Mr. Osodeke via a telephone call debunked the claim. Says he does not have a daughter. So if he does not have a daughter, how will she then graduate from school?
He also said that his salary of 400 thousand Naira a month cannot pay the school fees which are tens of millions of Naira. These are just the tactics of the government employed to create confusion within the system instead of solving the problem, He concluded.
This is further confirmed by a BBC Pidgin profiling, that he does not have a female child and published sometime in 2021.
Furthermore, we cropped the collage pictures attached to this claim into segments and made reverse image searches on the individual results.
Upon completion, the first photo was traced to a 2014 publication of ”My School Gist”, a blog that praised one Anita Osariemen Omonuwa for being “the first black woman to graduate from the University of Reading UK with a first-class degree”.
Ekiti Princess, the author of the controversial post wrote a follow-up comment that further proved the information shared untrue.
In it, she apologized to Nigerians for the post made earlier.
Conclusion
Aside from that, the pictures attached to the claim were obtained from different websites, and the ASUU president has confirmed that he has no daughter. Therefore, the claim that his daughter has graduated from the University of Chicago is false.
