₦airaland Forum

caye:
How did we get to this point?

If you read Tai Solarin's autobiography; To Mother With Love, he said a stranger took him on a very long journey to see his father, who he never knew from birth as a primary school kid, yet the man ( a driver) never thought of using him for blood rituals.

Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe was sent abroad by community funds. Those were signs of love and care within the Afriqan community.

To now get to a point where we leave ourselves to die on the road, shows that " Things have fallen apart, and the centre cannot hold " anymore.

it's just so terrible. Any body I told said the same thing "you're lucky and need to be careful, police would have pinned it on you"

What I experienced yesterday was worse. I was coming back from work in a a commercial bus suddenly the driver stopped, apparently there was an accident, a bike man was hit by a car who ran away we were told and people were just there taking pics and feeling pity for the guy (some persons even knew him from conversations ongoing there). I quickly rushed down and told the driver to discharge every other passenger and we tried to put him in the small bus.
At that point his body was straight like who is dead but I can't really tell if he's still alive so I was to sit at the edge of the bus putting is leg on my leg while someone else hold his head. To my surprise everyone started leaving the scene and said I'll put myself in trouble that police will pin everything on me and the driver. The driver and I pleaded with them that if like 10 persons follow us to the hospital and explain the same thing, that cannot happen but our pleading fell on deaf ears. We had no choice than to drop him back beside the road. I've never been so close to a "lifeless body" in my life. I felt traumatised and helpless.

I can't raise kids in this country. People are mentally dead.

Focusmind:
Just find a way of "ass licking" them. My first boss when I joined the banking sector was a woman. I would praise her to high heaven. Sometimes she came with food from home and while eating it, I would be like, " Madam, this food smells nice and your husband must be enjoying". She would laugh and always found ways of trying to tell me things so that I would give her the kind of answers she would want.

I would praise her and her kids to high heavens to the extent that I had to come to her house to coach her son that was preparing for Federal government college entrance exam then. She was so impressed that I was favored among the staff under her. She was mean to the core and was dreaded by all, but I found favor with her. Sometimes, she sent me to her house with driver to pick up something and I practically warmed myself to her. It was a game I played very well since I could not change or select my boss. She was the one doing appraisal and a lot of things are taken into consideration. If you have been into corporate world, you would understand.

There was time she did 10 years marriage anniversary and invited everybody, including staff. I was practically serving food, doing every chore. When people left that Sunday evening, I went to the back of the house and started washing plates and coolers with her Nanny. She came to the back of the house to drop some plates and found me and shouted that I should leave the place and stop washing the plates. I said, " madam, don't worry, it was nothing." She stood there and was looking at me.

It was around, 8:30pm and I was about to go. She was staying in a massive duplex in festac, while I was leaving at Ire-Akari estate. She insisted that I should not go, that I should go and sleep at their boys quarter. But I told her that tomorrow was Monday and I needed to go home and prepare for work. She said I should not bother coming to the office in the morning and should take two days off. I did stay in their house, helped her kids with their weekend homework and other things.

In the morning, before leaving, the husband gave me N10k and one new Turkish suite that he has not used before. The man is well to do anyway. Since that day, I was one of the most favored staff, recommending me for promotion. This was someone that everybody saw as "wicked" and feared by staff. She could shout to people anyhow and woe to you if you fail to balance your investment account after close of business.

When an opportunity came for someone to be recommended for a new project, she didn't waste time and put me forward. It was not that I was not good on my job, but I needed to build good relationship with her to help my career. In life and in corporate world, your boss can determine the trajectory of your growth. You must manage the person and play to his/her sentiments and massage ego.

But you must know your job and be dedicated. Adding interpersonal relationship and managing difficult bosses are just the icing on the cake.

one major reason I'm not built for corporate world. I can't asslick. I'm planning on resigning my current job too. It's just not meant for me

In2systemsTech:
There are basically three legitimate ways to become a professor: by climbing the professional ladder in a university; by being appointed to the position from outside academia in recognition of vast and varied industry experience or artistic wizardly in a field; and through a courtesy appointment. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami’s record does not qualify him for any.
Let’s start with the first. Pantami’s undergraduate degree in computer science from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, was earned in 2003. That’s less than 20 years ago. When he started his academic career as a Graduate Assistant at ATBU in 2004, the computer science department that awarded him his bachelor’s degree rejected him because his degree was “weak”; he was instead employed in the Information Technology section of the Faculty of Management where he also got his master’s degree in 2010/2011 and got promoted to Assistant Lecturer.
In 2011, he got the Petroleum Trust Fund Development (PTDF) scholarship to study for a PhD at the Department of Management in the Aberdeen Business School of Robert Gordon University, which he earned in August 2014.
Upon his return to ATBU, he was promoted to Lecturer 1—skipping one rank. He requested to be promoted to Senior Lecturer but was denied because he had insufficient publication record to justify his request. He resigned in protest and took up an appointment at the Salafist, male-Muslim-only Islamic University of Madinah as an Assistant Professor of Information Science.
In 2016, he accepted a government appointment as DG of NITDA and has never returned to academia since then.
Now, three criteria are used to promote academics: teaching, research, and service. Pantami’s entire university teaching record is less than 10 years—if you consider that he never taught either at ATBU or at Robert Gordon University (although he lied that he did during his senate confirmation hearing) during his three years of doctoral studies.
His research output is even more underwhelming. Although he brags about having “over 160 publications,” his actual scholarly output is really thin for someone who wants to be a professor. When I checked SCOPUS, the well-regarded database of top-level, peer-reviewed academic journals, using his legal name, that is, Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami is the name of his neighborhood in Gombe town, which he doesn’t legally bear), only three articles and one citation came up.
Of the three articles, he is the single author of one (which is actually only a 2-page country report) and a distant co-author in two. All three articles were published between 2018 and 2019 while he’s in government.
But SCOPUS can be unjustifiably exclusionary, so I looked him up on Google Scholar, a more expansive and laissez faire database of scholarly articles and books. He has exactly 10 articles and 39 citations there. Of the 10 articles, he is the first or sole author of 5 and a “tag-me-along” co-author of 5.
Sadly, at least 5 of his 10 articles are in dubious, pay-to-play, predatory journals that would destroy the academic career of any scholar in a serious country. Most of the articles were accepted and published in the same month that they were submitted! Since peer review typically takes months, the articles were clearly not peer-reviewed.
Evidence of a lack of peer review is evident in the fact that several of the articles are riddled with avoidable proofreading and grammatical errors. Plus, many of them, such as one that was basically an unimaginative 7-page rehash of publicly available facts about NAFDAC, are flat-out scholarly scams that a serious undergraduate won’t even be caught committing.
He published only two scholarly articles—in 2013 (from his PhD thesis) and in 2015—before he came to government, which explains why ATBU refused to promote him to senior lectureship. By 2014 when he wanted to be a Senior Lecturer, he had only one notable publication.
There is no serious university in the world that can legitimately promote a former Lecturer I (at ATBU) or an Assistant Professor (at the Islamic University of Madinah) overnight to the position of professor with only 10 substandard publications in predatory journals and 39 citations. The minimum number of publications required to be promoted to professorship in most Nigerian universities is 15. A professor should ideally have at least 100 citations.
Plus, Pantami didn’t spend up to a year as Lecturer I. Nigerian academics are required to spend at least 3 years in a rank. Three years as a Lecturer I, 3 years as a Senior Lecturer, and 3 years as a Reader would give you 9 years. That means he needs to spend at least 9 years in the university after his ministerial appointment— and publish a few more articles— to be qualified for promotion to professor. In Saudi Arabia, it would require at least 8 more years.
(Of course, if he was actually employed by FUTO that “promoted” him, his unmerited professorship wouldn’t have attracted any notice since there are several such examples of perversions of traditions all over Nigerian universities. It’s the absurdity of being promoted to a professor at and by a university he was never affiliated with while he’s a serving minister that made the fraud stick out like a sore thumb.)
Also note that Pantami’s PhD is in management, a social science discipline, not in computer science or cybersecurity. So, it’s doubly fraudulent that he has been “promoted” to the professorship of a discipline he didn’t study or publish in extensively.
His doctoral dissertation, titled “A theoretical and empirical investigation of the barriers to the adoption of state-of-the-art information systems by Nigerian indigenous oil companies,” which is freely available on the Internet, is basically a survey of employees of Nigerian oil companies on their perceptions of IT policies in their places of employment. It’s a social scientific study that any political science, sociology, or economics graduate can conduct.
Now that I have established that he can’t legitimately be a professor anywhere in the world on the basis of his scholarship and pedagogy, can he be appointed a professor on the strength of his industry experience? No! The only other job Pantami has ever done outside of government and his less than 10 years of university teaching is being the Imam of ATBU. He has never invented any cybersecurity patent and has never worked in a cybersecurity company.
The only discipline that can validly appoint him as a professor of practice is Islamic Studies. Say what you may about him, he is one of northern Nigeria’s most prodigious and consequential Islamic exegetes. His oeuvre in Islamic exegesis is unquestionably worthy of a professorial appointment in Islamic jurisprudence. That’s the path of least resistance he should have taken since he desperately desires to be addressed as a professor.
In defense of Pantami’s professorial fraud, one Professor Tukur Sa’ad hashed over a litany of people who became professors without terminal degrees and without prior teaching experience, as if I didn’t already make that point and called it an example of what we call a “professor of practice” in American academe.
In my December 20, 2015 column titled “A Comparison of Everyday University Vocabularies in Nigeria, America, and Britain (II),” I gave an even more dramatic example than Sa’ad’s in the late Maya Angelou who was a lifetime endowed professor of American literature at Wake Forest University but who didn’t have a bachelor’s degree.
Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, JP Clark, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and a host of other literary icons didn’t have—and didn’t need to have—a PhD to become professors. Apart from the fact that they didn’t climb the professorial mountain from the top (they started from lectureship), their path-breaking and prodigiously creative outputs are equivalent to—and in some cases exceed—a PhD.
In North American universities, it's called "Research and Creative Activity" for a reason. Wole Soyinka, Achebe, JP Clark, etc. had vast and varied oeuvres in "creative activity" before they became professors. Plus, during their time, the possession of a PhD was not a requirement to move through the academic hierarchy.
Pantami does not come even remotely close to their record in the field FUTO awarded him a fraudulent professorship. In any case, Soyinka, Achebe, etc. taught at the universities where they were professors. Pantami is a serving minister.
How about a courtesy professorship? Pantami isn’t qualified for that, either. A courtesy professorship is a professorial appointment given to distinguished professors at other universities who need not be at the universities that appointed them.
It’s called an “honorary professor” in some UK universities, an “extraordinary professor” in South African universities, and a “professor-at-large” in others. It’s basically an honor given to people who’re already professors elsewhere, so you can’t become a courtesy professor at another university if you are not already one somewhere else.
Some people said Pantami’s “achievements” as a minister are worthy of a professorial appointment. Haha! OK, so people who imagine themselves to be successful in whatever they do should now apply to FUTO for a Pantamized fraudfessorship to aggrandize their insecure egos?
Look, I’m calling out Pantami’s professorial fraud not in spite of my being a Muslim and his friend but because I’m a Muslim and his friend. My father, who was a Hafiz like him, would disown me if I ignored or gave comfort to fraud.


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now, this is journalism.

Gidada:
How can you as a man have no honor, you idiot is the reason people call we Yorubas betrayers and backstabbers. Shame on you ffk shame

Who did he backstab? His defection only surprised 'Nigerians with selective amnesia (which is majority of Nigerians btw). You think it's easy to be in opposition after tasting free money ehn?

The mf has no other means of getting money apart from politics and his kids are growing up fast. Responsibilities boku.. He can't come and kill himself jare.

davodyguy:
He has no idea of what he's saying.

He just went to the internet to lift things and post.

Try Ogudu GRA and Magodo GRA. In Magodo now, a 5 bedroom house on 400sqm of Land goes for about ₦200m, yet this guy didn't mention Magodo.

Shows he has no idea of what he's saying

You know what you're saying!!

ednut1:
The Op does not live in Lagos or these areas clearly. Lekki phase one is just a place in lekki peninsula, refinery is about 1hour 45 mins away from lekki phase one. the lands around the refinery are not choice areas na,
you omitted Magodo and Ogudu estate. see as he dey talk of ikoyi as if land na 50 kobo there

If you're the only one driving on the road, that is, no traffic whatsoever, it will take you nothing less than 2 hours from lekki phase1 to dangote refinery in ibeju lekki

BREYZ:
My people forget about big names like Lekki, VI and Banana Island, consider flood first, clean water too. No be by big names, no buy property for area where u go come dey cry later. My eyes have seen many many things

Not all areas in those places gets flooded and there are many estates in those places you'll get to use industrial water. Just ask the right person to tell you about them.

tega192:
I have 300k naira can I buy a land in lekki

With 300k, you can buy 2sqm in Lekki. Lol!!

Pierocash:
Aside lekki, where do you think there is any available land to buy in the other places you mentioned?

There are many lands to buy in other areas mentioned. You can chat me up, I'm a realtor. Check my signature

The contents under Lekki is for ibeju lekki. They are 2 different places and world apart.

Banana island estate is an estate in Ikoyi too.

If someone is said to last 2 minutes, does it mean after 2 minutes, the man isn't interested again for the whole day or that's just for the first round?

I genuinely pity her. Love has really dealt with to to!!

iamtardey:
I really think so

it is second worst after only the mighty Abia state... At Lagos/ogun border, You don't need anyone to tell you where ogun state starts. It is that pathetic!!

Pls don't touch her. Her time is up and she just needs an excuse to die. My advice? Run away...

Nollywood Don finish me sha. Hahaha

It's the "aboki swag" for me. These guys are in 18th century.

He's just so magnificent

Humanoid01:
I understand that he feels he was no longer considered important, but he shouldn't be sad because he won the UCL in his first season at Chelsea, a title which he couldn't win in his eight year spell at PSG. He has to move on and concentrate on his current family at Chelsea. T. Silva go be like person wey go dey worry too much.

he worries too much really. Good thing he has that his wife by his side

joshmee4real:
" Too Many Ronaldo goals against your team".
Can you mention 3 other goals he scored against Chelsea apart from that of 2008 champions league Final?
I doubt u are a Chelsea Fan

he's not a Chelsea fan

I'm a realtor and If I start to tell you how house seekers, landlords and lawyers frustrate us, you'll really pity us

Hbd Stella's daughter.

Isn't stella a one time campaigner against early marriage??

NGpatriot:
In your warped world and reality, it's a crime to be the son of the president.

It is also a crime for the president's son to mary any woman of his choice.

How sad and pathetic can some of you hateful people be?

Well, I never said that.. Just to read and understand is a big problem to you.

Lol. People want the truth. The truth is bartmoeu doesn't know anything about business and along with his board has destroyed barca by giving players high wages and making senseless overpaid buys (I mean there's a story that he agreed to buy dembele at a higher rate because dortmund was in a hurry to catch a flight) due to which barca is in a debt right now without money and well over the wages they can pay Due to this they can not sign messi not register their new players so ppl who think they'll see depay aguero Garcia emerson good luck with that because it's not happening until players like pjanic umtiti coutinho leave or busquets pique alba roberto griezzman reduce their massive wages So ppl who think barca is playing fifa and can easily sell and buy players good luck with that

Buhari really used this time to cash out.. He secured his children's future by marrying them to rich families.

Everything he couldn't achieve during his military regime, he made sure he did it now.

In his mind, "Bleep Nigeria and Nigerians, they never cared about upright people, I tried to be good and worked towards the betterment of the country the last time and no one acknowledged it, this time, their fadaaaa!!!"

I won't blame him much too, He's just what we represent as a people, difference is he's privileged to be at the top. Many Nigerians will do worse than him..

Let's hope the next person that will occupy that seat be among the very very few God-fearing Nigerian.

This government really dealt with Nigerians and should never be forgotten but unfortunately Nigerians have National Amnesia and will elect this mistake of a president again and again.

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But what right does the US have to arrest a Nigerian criminal who committed the crime in Nigeria

I hate the way Nigerians like bringing down their own. It's pathetic.

He should be prosecuted if found guilty but I must say this "bring him down" syndrome is not okay at all. The level of hate in this country is just too much

Wow!!! I'm so scared of getting married right now.

Kudos to the fg. This is a good one.. I really suffered plying that road that year

Whoever invented gun and bullets is not human

Even if you earn 50k in a job, the stress and frustration is still same or even more. Work stress and frustration doesn't reduce, you just have to grow beyond that stage

Bigajeff:
No matter how justify you are, never raise your hand to beat a woman

but a woman might raise her hand to beat a man. Efulefu simps everywhere