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Until the northerners sees education above that their religion. Terrorism and banditry will never end in the north.

Shame on the FG of Nigeria and it shall never be well with you all and your blood sucking demons called bandits you are have been spoon feeding.

Over 30 people were gruesomely murdered in Niger-State just yst. Here we are today. The FG is looking the other way round while some unscrupulous elements are sympathizing with bandits and terrorists.

The fact here remains that no southerner can dare try this. He would have been arrested. Shame on you Gumi. Shame on the failed FG of Nigeria and it shall never be well with you all and your blood sucking demons called bandits you are spoon feeding.

Imagine a southerner saying all these in respect to an IPOB or ESN?

Imagine someone from the East being an apologist or mediator to an IPOB or ESN boys?

Infact, such a person would have rotten in jail by now.

Believe in one Nigeria at your own peril.

Believe that at your own peril... How? Is Maiduguri an oil producing state?

My mum travelled and she was expected to return within a week but unable to return on the due date. After two weeks, no more food at home again. All the money she dropped for us has completely been spent. We searched everywhere, no food,nothing.

To cut the long story short, we saw a four crates of eggs neatly kept somewhere behind the wardrobe in the kitchen, unknowingly she will return in the next two days.

Brothers and sisters in the Lord, we will cook one crate in the morning and another one crate for dinner. That was how two of us consumed two crates of eggs within two days.

What happened when mum returns is unexplainable. We were just messing up everywhere so tey no one ask us before we confessed our sin.

To this man, everything is politics. He has sold his conscience and destiny for a pot of porridge. So, he can't go home again. He is only doing more harm to his fragile region in the name of assilicking his paymasters and for political affiliation's sake.

I can never be surprised if Kyari is back but the fact here remains that FBI is not a beer parlor investigative outfit, FBI is the best investigative outfit in the world and Kyari remains a criminal until he go to the US to clear his name.

Nigeria is not one and it can never be one.

1914 almagamation has since expired.

One Nigeria is not by force.

The question begging for an answer is: Why are the northerners always scared of disintegration?

Remember! A child of a snake, is also a snake.

Another mother of all protest is loading #end EFCC# if the excesses of these guys is not properly put to check. FBI don't operate like, CIA don't operate like this, even INTERPOL cannot in any way descended so low to this level, just in the name looking for an internet fraudsters & not a bandit or terrorist ooo.

Can't we just be professional in carrying out our responsibilities in this part of the world?

The fact here remains that the disbanded SARS operatives might have been incorporated into the Efcc and now giving the noble organisation a bad image. Efcc will soon see the anger of all Nigerians in no distance time if they allow this to continue.

Little thanks to Gen. Sanni Abacha, a one time sanguinary warrior for stealing these monies which should have been stolen by another wicked politician without any traces...

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I have as well confirmed most of his findings:

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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I wish him quick recovery... what a very talented and lovely guy!

I wish him quick recovery... very talented guy.

No any serious or self respected govt will be talking about open grazing in the 21st century.

You have sold your destiny for a pot of porridge and you need prayers before it can be well with you.

supportnija:
This man too useless

No doubt, Ogun-State is a monumental failure in terms of road rehabilitation and construction.
Come to Ojodu Abiodun (Berger side) and see bad roads, thanks to Lagos govt that has reconstructed their own portion right to their border to avoid the monumental shame. Come to Alagbole/Akute and see the failure of Ogun-State govt. Not even a single kilometre has been tared in Mowe/Ibafo in the last 15 years. If you go to Ofada, Sango, Ifo, Papalanto, Atan, Lafenwa, Oja Odan, Ilaro etc. You will weep for that state.

You are absolutely right...

iwaeda:
YES AND YES. Do you want me to say it again, Yes and Yes. One day I drove to Mowe-Ofada recently for an event, when I got to my estate, the security men asked what happened to my car. It was covered in mud. Same bad road in Sagamu, Ifo, Ijebu, Agbara, Ilisan, Remo, Ogere, Papalanto, Atan, Lafenwa, Agbole, Akute, Egbado, Ijebu water side, Ijebu Musin/Ife, Itele, Odogbolu, Ayede, Aiyetoro, Ososa.
Yet you see youth because of hands down will be hailing these people. If we must change things t[b]he revolution start with electing credible people and stop towing religion, ethnic and part lines[/b]

This govt is not serious at all. After 8 years, you are still strugling to complete this road. Mowe/ Ibafo residents as well as others millions of travellers has been suffering on this same road for almost a decade.

Shame on you all and I know all these delays is just to campaign with the road in 2023.

You have sold your destiny for a pot of porridge and it shall never be well with you...

blinking001:
Governor Otom is a proven failure, he has no right to point accusing fingers at anyone, he's a true definition of a retarded vagabond.
Benue state is now a shadow of itself thanks to Governor otom, the terrible roads, bad living condition, poor water supply, etc is a testament to the fact Otom is a bad administrator. His likes are suppose to be arrested and hanged.

Oloriburuku somebody, Tinubu's money is more important than your life.

Wisdom is far away from him. He talks too much and mostly with both parts of the mouth.

You can't win against your clan but I will enjoin you pls thread with wisdom & caution.

His family should pls speak sense into his head.

Those children will never return to this country again.

Never!!!

All what I know is that this bloody fulani govt will soon set the country on fire.

Self determination is a right of every nationality anywhere in the world.

For we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free. The end of Nigeria is knocking at the door and is fast approaching. Why are the northerners always afraid of breaking up from this good for nothing country? Nigeria is not one and it can never be one. One Nigeria is a monumental scam. The fulanis are born jihadist and we dnt share the same culture, beliefs, religion, orientation, education, exposure and upbringing. The 1914 Almagamation was a disaster that befell the country and the end shall justify the means.

The FG should make the registration accessible online pls. We usually pay N25,000 for standard private and commercial number plates against the old rate of N12,500. The officials would ensure and frustrate you to pay it.

While the officials used to collect N24, 000 for driver's licence as against the old rate of N6000.

You have sold your conscience and that of your future for a pot of porridge. Shame on you!

Lifeisgoody:
I can't imagine the day DSS will hold this pastor.
I laugh in Spanish.

Pastor Reno, continue

RIP gallant activist... You will forever remain evergreen in our memory.

Just imagine this little one raping your wife, sister or mother at a gun point? God forbid but that is their way. They were all born jihadist but fact here remains that one Nigeria is scam. We don't have anything in common with this cows in human form?

The end shall justify the means.

Ogun State is a shame in the comity of states in terms of road network in Nigeria. Nothing to show for the magnificent IGR they have been receiving over the years.

Ogun-State is one of the states with worst ever roads in the country.

There is no where you can see a good or motorable road in the entire state except the state capital.

Go to Mowe, go to Ibafo, go Sango-Ota, go to Akute/Alagbole, go to Ijoko, Ilaro and Oja-Odan side.

Ogun-State govt has been doing very badly when it comes to roads network.