Nigeria, Oct. 13 -- Weighed down by the heavy moral burden of the certificate forgery allegation levelled against him, politician and businessman, Uche Nnaji, last Tuesday resigned his position as Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology.

In his resignation letter to President Bola Tinubu, he claimed that he was "a target of blackmail by political opponents."

But Mr Nnaji was being economical with the truth. The fact, as now irrefutably established, is that he forged two certificates: one, a BSc degree in Microbiology/Biochemistry from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), purportedly awarded him in 1985, even though he never completed his studies there. And another, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate dated 1986....