Germany: 100 Professors in Bribes Scandal

[I Love Nigeria]

AND, So there is decay and corruption in Germany? In academia no less? Hmmm? So corruption is not a Yoruba word after all? Not an Igbo word? Not an Hausa word? How come? Those must be Germans of Nigerian descent! -ILN

But I Am Told That Corruption Is Exclusive An Afrikan Disease, No?

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[B]100 professors suspected of Ph.D. bribes[/B


By DAVID RISING (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press

August 22, 2009 11:45 AM EDT
BERLIN - German prosecutors are investigating about 100 professors across the country on suspicion they took bribes to help students get their doctoral degrees, authorities said Saturday.

The investigation is focused on the Institute for Scientific Consulting, based in Bergisch Gladbach, just east of Cologne, which allegedly acted as the intermediary between students and the professors, said Cologne prosecutor's spokesman Guenther Feld.

Feld confirmed reports of the investigation in both Focus magazine and the Neue Westfaelische newspaper, but would not give further details.

The Institute for Scientific Consulting did not answer its phone Saturday.
According to the two publications, students paid between ?to ? ($5,700 to $28,500) to the company, which promised to help them get their doctorate degrees through its extensive contacts within university faculties.

The Neue Westfaelische newspaper reported that "hundreds" of students were involved, and that the company paid professors between ?to ?when their clients had successfully received their Ph.D.'s. It was not clear whether the students knew that bribes were being paid.

The professors are being investigated on suspicion of fraud, Feld said.
"The supervision of a Ph.D. thesis is a public service, and one is not allowed to take money for it," Feld told the newspaper.

So far, evidence points to the involvement of about 100 professors across the country spanning "numerous disciplines," Feld was quoted as saying. Most are people teaching classes on a contract basis, rather than full-time professors, he said.

Focus reported that the investigation involved universities in Frankfurt, Tuebingen, Leipzig, Rostock, Jena, Bayreuth, Ingolstadt, Hamburg, Hannover, Bielefeld, Hagen, Cologne and Berlin.

The investigation was opened last year after another probe of the Institute for Scientific Consulting in connection with a similar scheme.

After authorities searched the firm's headquarters in March 2008, the company's head was charged with paying bribes in a case involving a Hannover University law professor. The man, whose name was not released in line with German privacy laws, was found guilty and sentenced in July 2008 to 3 1/2 years in prison, and fined ?.

The professor, whose name was also not released, was found guilty as well and sentenced to three years in prison for accepting the bribes.

The professor confessed in court to accepting nearly ?0 to serve as a faculty adviser to more than 60 doctorate students between 1998 and 2005.
The professor said he needed the money to renovate his Hamburg mansion.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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AND, So there is decay and corruption in Germany? In academia no less? Hmmm? So corruption is not a Yoruba word after all? Not an Igbo word? Not an Hausa word? How come? Those must be Germans of Nigerian descent! -ILN

ALMOST everybody (including the fellow German citizens of those professors themselves, along with the rest of their industrialized western counterparts, from the United Kingdom to the United States) accepts that corruption is NOT unique to Africa/ns from Yorubaland or Hausaland or Igboland or Zululand - that corruption is and unfortunate global 'phenomenon' that spares NO society or people - not even the Pope's Holy See in Rome.

And that is the God-honest truth; most people know that NO peoples or culture or society in this world has any monopoly on these vices per se - none! It is therefore highly convenient for any bloody citizen with a signboard name as "I Love Nigeria" to arrogate unto himself the position of "Defender of the Bullied and Oppressed" where there's little or no need for such - especially from people like him, who exploit the world's imbalances for personal recognition.

It is easy to accept that there isn't much of any negative campaign against Africans/Third World countries besides the reality that those parts of the world happen to have a FAR higher level of graft or corruption which, in many cases, are so blatantly daring that honest people appear as outcasts or aliens in those societies. This is why some of these third-world societies appear to stand out more than the rest of the societies where corruption happen.

So let no bloody unrepentant apologist for one of the more corrupt, egomanic, incorrigible and law-breaking government heads like Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo pretend to speak for the less privileged societies of this world, for in hailing and praising basterds like Obasanjo throughout the duration of their ignominous reign, these folks helped sustain the negative reputation that the tenures of leaders like Obasanjo bequeathed our societies, from Oduduwaland to Ijawland!

In other words, shut-the-fcuk up, Paul "I Love Nigeria" Adujie!

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[I Love Nigeria]

Afu-Specious again huh Sigh-Yawn
Ewu-madu kobu! he is foolish human being!

[Auspicious]

Afu-Specious again huh Sigh-Yawn
Ewu-madu kobu! he is foolish human being!

Is that all? No PDF Copy-and-Pastes? NNNNNno Way!

And you, ILN, are a walking Personification of Idiocy, my fren.

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[docokwy]

Ok, at least the Germans are trying the corrupt professors and putting them in jail? Where are the Nigerian corrupt lecturers in jail? That, Mr ILN, is the difference. Nigeria is washed out with unbridled corruption and no amount of embellishement will suffice.

[agensheku]

Scratch those german professors skins well well,nija blood must flow out from some of them.we hold the copyright to corruption,anyone trying it is a copycat!look around you for proofs.are we not the ones who give loans to bad debtors and before alarm blow,we don pick race and begin go court from yonder!if we are clean,lets stay back and face the laundryman.are we not the ones awarding first class hons degrees to people,some of whom when they get to interview panels can not answer questions properly?!