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Feb 14

We Should Thank ASUU on Pantami’s Fraudfessorship
I woke up to the news that the national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has finally officially endorsed what I’ve proved conclusively in a series of articles: that Isa Ali Ibrahim’s appointment as

“professor” of cybersecurity at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, is fraudulent, unmerited, a crying violation of well-established protocols, and should be rescinded forthwith. ASUU should be thanked because I can guarantee anyone reading this that they must have

resisted enormous financial and political pressures to publicize this. I know this because Pantami & his PR team have expended millions of naira to bribe journalists to not expose his fraud, to cajole random unprincipled academics to endorse it, to purchase the silence of people

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Feb 4

Another ASUU Strike?
So, ASUU is going on another strike that will maim the dreams, hopes, and aspirations of our young people, and Education Minister Adamu Adamu is sitting pretty in his easy chair as if nothing is going badly amiss?
And my friend Isa Ali Pantami who loves the

glory of academia so much that he went out of his way to beg FUTO to confer an unearned professorial title on him is also pretending not to see as the university system is about to collapse completely before his eyes. He loves the bragging rights that come with being called a

"professor" but not the sacrifice it takes to save the university system whose highest titular glory he swanks. Adamu Adamu and Pantami are far and away the closest ministers to Buhari. They can get the regime to meet ASUU's demands and save what remains of our universities if

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Sep 20, 2021

Fraudsters’ University of Technology Owerri (FUTO)

In this ongoing Pantamized fraudfessorial saga, the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, which I’ve chosen to rechristen as the “Fraudsters’ University of Technology Owerri” until it rescinds its fraudulent appointment to

Pantami, isn’t getting the deserved censure its fraud invites. In an interview with Saturday Tribune (tribuneonlineng.com/why-we-made-pa…), FUTO’s registrar by the name of John Nnabuihe spouted many outrageous inaccuracies that has caused me to question the very academic integrity of the

entire university. First, he said Pantami was an “Associate Professor” at the Islamic University of Madinah. He wasn’t. Saudi Arabia’s university system is modelled after the American system, and the minimum number of years required to be promoted to an associate professor from

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Sep 14, 2021

Prof. Tukur Sa’ad’s Obfuscation on Pantami’s Professorial Fraud
Someone called my attention to a response to my interventions on Pantami’s FUTO professorial fraud. It was supposedly written by a certain Professor Sa’ad Tukur who identifies himself as “a former Vice Chancellor.”

The long and short of the article is that non-academics with industry experience can be appointed to professorships. Haven’t I written exactly that in all my interventions? Has the man even read my articles before writing his?Or is he just engaging in what logicians call strawman

argumentation, that is, inventing a weak or sham argument that your opponent didn’t make in order to easily refute it? But Sa’ad undermined his own “defense” of Pantami’s fraud by admitting that, “I’m not saying Pantami can fit into the examples I gave.” So, why did he write?

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Sep 13, 2021

Pantami: Congratulatory Letters Don’t Legitimize Fraud

Isa Ali Pantami and the gang of unconscionably mercenary and dizzyingly shallow PR team around him seem to think that if they can get enough people to congratulate Pantami on his fraudulent professorial “promotion”

(or, if you will, "appointment") and say it is “well-deserved,” that it would somehow deodorize its overpoweringly malodorous ethical stench and perhaps even legitimize it.But it doesn’t work that way.Fraud is fraud irrespective of what the beneficiaries of fraud do to defend it.

Someone from Gombe shared with me this congratulatory letter on Pantami’s fraudulent “professorship” that the Gombe chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) was instructed to write😂. I hope it’s a spoof because the atrociousness of the grammar in the letter is

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Sep 12, 2021

Further Thoughts on Pantami’s Fake Professorship
Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami’s distressing professorial fraud is taking on multiple layers of soul-depressing duplicity. I’ll unpack some of them here.

After the unusualness of “promoting” Pantami, a FUTO non-employee, to an unworthy

“professorship” at FUTO was pointed out, his PR team went into overdrive to obfuscate, deflect, and muddy the waters by saying he was “appointed,” not “promoted” to his “professorship.” It’s one of the funniest and most unintelligent subterfuges I’ve encountered in recent times.

But here is the truth. Pantami’s PR firm called PRNNigeria put out a news release—at Pantami’s behest—to news organizations on September 5 saying he had been “promoted” to the rank of professor.guardian.ng/news/pantami-p…. The lead (i.e., the first sentence) of the news story reads:

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