its SAHARA REPORTERS again
http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/21/nigeria’s-newly-appointed-head-federal-inland-revenue-services-removes-fake-honorary

Following an investigation by SaharaReporters
which disclosed that Williams Babatunde Fowler,
tipped yesterday by President Muhammadu
Buhari to head Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue
Service (FIRS), claims an honorary doctorate
degree from a shady institution in England known
as the “Irish International University”, Mr. Fowler
has engaged in desperate efforts to erase the
controversial title from the internet especially on
Wikipedia.
The so-called university was long exposed as a
fake degree mill, akin to the equally phantom
“Buxton University” named by Senator Andy Uba,
former domestic aide to ex-President Olusegun
Obasanjo, as the source of his “PhD.”
The listing of Mr. Fowler’s academic degree
raised eyebrows among Nigerians, especially on
social media after SaharaReporters sent out a
tweet exposing Mr. Fowler’s link with the fake
university, an award that gave him the
entitlement to refer to himself as “Dr. Fowler”.
Stung by the revelation, Mr. Fowler whose
appointment as the head of the FIRS was
reportedly facilitated by Bola Tinubu, the National
Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
party, has edited his bio on the web pages of the
Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS)http://
www.lirs.gov.ng/mr-babatunde-fowler-full-
resume/ but Mr. Fowler’s handlers are yet to
remove his “Dr” title from his personal webpage
http://meetfowler.com/aboutme.html.
A Facebook post by a US-based academic,
Farooq Kperogi, typified the critical response to
the controversial appointment of Mr. Fowler.
“After months of delays, ostensibly to properly
vet his appointees, President Buhari just
appointed somebody that may turn out to be a
total fraud,” stated Mr. Kperogi, who earned a
Ph.D. His Facebook post added that Mr. Buhari
“appointed a certain ‘Dr.’ William Babatunde
Fowler as the Executive Chairman of the Federal
Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Mr. Fowler’s lower degrees appear legitimate.
Biographical entries on Wikipedia state that Mr.
Fowler “obtained his first Bachelors’ degree with
a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a minor
in Political Science in 1978. He completed a
second bachelors’ degree program at California
State University, Los Angeles and also a Master
of Business Administration degree program at
California State University, Dominguez Hills in
1981.” As at yesterday Wikipedia listed Mr.
Fowler’s so-called “Honorary Doctorate Degree”
from the Irish International University on their
page but overnight efforts were made to remove
any reference to the Irish International University
honorary degree from Fowler’s Wikipedia entry.
Our correspondent’s check on the self-styled
Irish International University showed that it is a
fake “university” linked to Baron Knowth, a
chartered accountant whose real name is Jeffrey
Wooller. In 2008, the BBC exposed Irish
International University as [a] fake university
offering “substandard and worthless degrees.”
Mr. Wooller, “a member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants, owns a £1.2m
townhouse in Kensington but spends most of his
time living as a tax exile in Monte Carlo,” the BBC
reported.
Our investigation also revealed that several
Nigerian politicians, prominent among them
former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos
State, had received honorary degrees from the
Irish International University. Mr. Tinubu, who is
the National Leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), is believed to have pushed for
Mr. Fowler’s appointment.
In addition to Mr. Tinubu, other Nigerians like
broadcaster Bisi Olatilo, the owner of UK-based
BEN TV, Alistair Soyode, politician Timi Alaibe,
Senator Grace Bent, and a traditional ruler, Oba
Fredrick Obateru Akinrutan of Ugbo Kingdom in
Ondo State, received fake honorary degrees at a
shady event orchestrated by the fake university
in London. Forbes magazine named Oba
Akinrutan the second richest monarch in Africa,
behind the King of Morocco. The ostentatious
monarch often boasts to reporters about his $1
million wristwatch and his fleet of cars, including
a Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
Mr. Fowler claimed to have received his so-called
honorary degree from the Irish International
University in May 2007.

K

Hmmm...

So its true!!!!!!!!. Ah I thought buhari said is taking his time to appoint saint like him but why this then?.

jcross19:
So its true!!!!!!!!. Ah I thought buhari said is taking his time to appoint saint like him but why this then?.

and where did they mention in the article that he is corrupt ?

tucky200:
and where did they mention in the article that he is corrupt ?

a man with a fake honorary certificate is a big fraudster and that mean is corrupt.

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