--My People:Two versions of a letter responding to the same person to the same question from the same source? And the person is still alive and well? Who to believe?Lord have mercy: I am frightened for my country - our tendency for desperation and "crookery."I really want these elections over with - their prelude could could get uglier if the dates were extended by one day.Only the truth shall set us free.....and Pointblanknews.com has done the right thing.And there you have it.Bolaji AlukoShaking his headAnd Scratching it_______________________________________________________________Who Doctored A Cambridge University Response To Hausa Language Exam in 1961?
Two version of a an alleged response from the Cambridge Univeristy to one Sodiq Alabi who sought to know if indeed Hausa Language were offered in the 1961 West Africa School Certificate, WASC, is currently in circulation.
Alabi in an email to Pointblanknews.com said the original response he got
from the University confirmed that Hausa Language was indeed part of the
1961 WASC exams.He said another version claiming that Hausa Language was not offered in
the 1961 WASC exams "grossly misrepresents my exchange with Cambridge."We serve our readers with the two versions as a responsible media outfit
and indeed apologize to Mr. Alabi if we have been misled into publishing
the doctored document
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From Sodiq Alabi facebook https://www.facebook.com/sodiqoalabiSee in particular: https://www.facebook.com/notes/973399802688470/?pnref=storyQuestion: Did Cambridge really confirm that Hausa language was an exam subject in 1961 WASC?
Answer: YES.
How do I know? Because I am the one who sent them an email asking for confirmation and I got a positive response.
Why did I send them an email?
Because since General Muhammadu Buhari's Statement of Result (SoR) was released on January 21, his detractors have been coming up with some truly, embarrassingly pathetic arguments in their bid to dismiss the authenticity of the SoR. Bucky Hassan, a private citizen like myself, has dismantled all their puerile arguments in this brilliant post (https://www.facebook.com/buckyhas/posts/10152808456886676 ).
However, not withstanding Ms Hassan's intervention, the anti Buhari crowd continue to spread their lies. As a fine user of Google (if I do say so myself), I thought I should subject what I consider their most unfounded argument to a basic scrutiny, which is the argument that Hausa was not an examination subject in 1961. They even went further to claim that no Nigerian school was teaching Hausa as of 1961. Some of them said that it was until 1971 or so that Hausa was taught and examined in schools.
I didn't have to use Google to know that they were wrong on all counts. Anybody with the slightest interest in Nigerian History would tell you that there was no time in the 20th Century that Hausa was not taught and examined. Please read this work on how Hausa became a subject taught and examined in Nigeriahttp://org.uib.no/smi/sa/15/15Philips.pdf. Hausa Language became part of the school curriculum in the early part of the 20thcentury, at least before 1930 (Toyin Falola, Culture and Customs of Nigeria, page 60- available online)
Anyway, I took their claim to Google and it fell apart. I was able to get the email of the Cambridge Assessment Archive Service fromhttp://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/our-research/archives-service/ and I sent them this email at 1:31 pm of January 22:
From: sodiq alabi [mailto:sodiqalabi@hotmail.com]
Sent: 22 January 2015 13:31
To: Archives Team
Subject: 1961 WASC
Sent: 22 January 2015 13:31
To: Archives Team
Subject: 1961 WASC
Hello,
I will like to confirm if your examination body offered Hausa Language in the 1961 West African School Certificate examination it organised.
Thank you.
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And this is the response I got three hours later:
Dear Sodiq Alabi
According to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa were set for the West African School Certificate.
Jacky Emerson
ArchiveService Delivery Officer
CambridgeAssessment Archives ServiceAnd this is what I did next:
I made a Facebook post about my findings https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200156831681062&set=a.1039486204946.5438.1759279248&type=1&theater , and I attached a screen grab of my email exchange with Cambridge. The post and the picture have made their way around Naija cyber space like wildfire. They have been correctly used by couple of online media including Sahara Reporters and naij.com.
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