baliyubla:
What is it with the Lifeless and Religious fanatics heading our ministry of communications? From sheikh Adebayo Shittu to Sheikh Ali Pantami.

The ministerial nominee, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami was born on October 20, 1972 in Pantami area of Gombe Division of the defunct Northeastern State to late Malama Amina Umar Aliyu and Malam Ali Ibrahim Pantami.

He started his education in the traditional Islamic School for memorizing the Qur’an, called ‘Tsangaya School.’ He later joined Pantami Primary School where he got his Primary School Certificate and also obtained his Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) from Government Science Secondary School, Gombe.


He proceeded to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, University (ATBU), Bauchi and bagged a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science in 2003 and a Masters degree in 2008, before obtaining a PhD from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Sheikh Isa Ali Pantami, as he is popularly called, began his career at ATBU, Bauchi where he taught Information Technology before joining the Islamic University of Madinah as Head of Technical Writing in 2014.

In 2016, he left lecturing after he was appointed as the Director General/CEO of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) by President Muhammadu Buhari on September 26, 2016. Dr Pantami is a fellow of both British Computer Society (FBCS) and Nigeria Computer Society (FNCS) in addition to many fellowships to his credit.


He is also an Islamic scholar and has been leading the Juma’ah prayer for over 20 years in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. He serves as a member of Shari’ah Board of Jaiz Bank. He is also a Shurah member and Deputy Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Shari’ah (SCS) in Nigeria. In 2008, he debated with the founder and leader of Boko Haram, late Mohammed Yusuf, on the Boko Haram ideology and Salafism.

Bizmagnet:

Many animals have been making money even before she was born. Go to zoo and see how her counterparts are generating money even for a whole nation as a tourist attraction centre. She's not the first and never going to be the last.

The Aliko Dangote Foundation has renewed its commitment to entrepreneurship development in the country with a N340 million Micro-Grant Empowerment Programme for beneficiaries in Katsina State.

The programme aims at empowering 1000 beneficiaries from each of the 34 local government areas of the state to establish businesses and be self-employed.

While inaugurating the committee that will select the beneficiaries, the deputy governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu, hailed the initiative as a welcome development, adding that the majority of the target beneficiaries are women.

Yakubu revealed that the foundation recently donated 340,000 packages of food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state and charged the committee to select the beneficiaries of the micro-grant empowerment prrogramme to ensure only appropriate persons would benefit from the gesture.

In her remarks, the chairperson of the committee and permanent secretary in the state ministry of lands and survey, Hajia Rawantu Lawal, promised to conduct the assignment diligently to justify the confidence reposed on the committee.

kennygee:


Most of you who shout "feminism" all over the cyber space don't even know what it is.

Is there anything wrong in noticing that it is only one female in all the pictures posted?

Bitter men every where.

Omashe o.

Excaperx:
Including the middle belt States, I think Christians Makes up 35% of northern population.

Christians in Adamawa,bauchi,taraba,benue,plateau are quite many

XhosaNostra:


Didn't one throw away her newborn in a rubbish dump not too long ago?
I wonder how many of them go to such extreme measures just to keep up appearances.

XhosaNostra:


The note was in Hausa though, but what do I know? So Igbos are also Muslims?

LuciferPastor:
Seeing as Italy is a Christian nation, Salah will be handed match bans & severe fines should he attempt to perform his heathen head slamming goal celebration.


*spits

Peter Obi, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has explained why he invested $30million of Anambra State funds in a company owned by his family.

He stated this in response to a question by Kadaria Ahmed, host of ‘The Candidates’, a presidential town hall co-production between Daria Media and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), with support from the MacArthur Foundation, held in Abuja on Wednesday.

He claimed that the company belonged to his parents, and he had no dealings in it after he became a public officer.

His words: “I brought International Breweries into Nigeria and as a Governor of a state, they built a greenfield facility in the state and they came to me and said ‘as our partner, we want you to own 15 per cent of this company’, and I said to them ‘No, right now, I am the Governor of a state. I know the future of this brewery, and I want the state to own 10 per cent and since I’m no longer involved in the company, they can own five per cent’. I put in $30million of state money there, it’s now worth $100million and it’s still there. No other state in this country has such investment.

“Personally, I have no investment; not even one Naira. Go to Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) today, if you will see Peter Obi as owner of one share; it doesn’t exist. Next is a family company started by my own parents and as their child, I ran it at a time, and when I became Governor, I had nothing to do with it till today.

“I also invested $50million of Anambra State money in the power sector. I invested several billions in banks, including banks where I have shares. I was investing for the future of the state; it doesn’t matter whether I have shares or not. If I have the opportunity of building the future of the state, wouldn’t I have done that?

“I left office in this country, leaving Anambra State with investment in cash of N75billion. The day I left office, we had $56million, N12billion in Fidelity Bank.; in Diamond Bank, $50million, N12billion; in Access Bank, $50million, N12billion for Anambra State. Show me in the history of this country where anybody has left 10 per cent of that.”