HOW NOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER, ONYEKA NWELUE WAS BOOTED OUT OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES FOR FALSELY CLAIMING TO BE A ‘PROFESSOR’

A Nigerian author who claimed to be a professor at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has lost his academic visitor status after students alleged he “fabricated” his role. Onyeka Nwelue, a writer and filmmaker, was invited to join the African Studies Centre at Oxford as a visiting fellow for the 2021-22 academic year. Posts from a Twitter account, which has since been deleted, show that Mr Nwelue claimed to be a professor at both Oxford and Cambridge. However, neither university could acknowledge this academic status, an investigation by Cherwell,…

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