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Abuja

Published on
August 6, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Salisu Buhari, speaker of Nigeria's house of representatives and constitutionally the country's fourth most senior citizen, has resigned after falsely claiming that he had received a degree from the University of Toronto in the late 1980s. He was fined 2,000 naira (Pounds 12).

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