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ASUU’s national council rejects FUTO chapter’s report endorsing Pantami’s professorship

November 16, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

A report submitted by Federal University of Technology (FUTO) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), endorsing the appointment of Nigeria’s minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami, as a professor of cybersecurity, has been rejected by the body’s National Executive Council. Adddressing journalists in Abuja on Monday November 15 at the end of a two-day […]

I’ll stand with Nnamdi Kanu as long as Northerners stand with Pantami, Gumi, Miyetti Allah ―Bishop of Methodist Church

July 7, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Bishop of the Methodist Church, Onitsha Diocese, Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Biereonwu Livinus Onuagha, says he will stand with the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, as long as Northerners stand with Pantami and Gumi. He said that Nnamdi Kanu might have exhibited youthful exuberance but that he is representing 99.9 percent of […]

Pantami: Between Honour and Responsibility, By Onikepo Braithwaite

May 1, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Last week, those in charge of the railway in Egypt were sacked by their government, after two train derailments occurred within a period of one month – no excuses. Closer to home, Kemi Adeosun, the former Minister of Finance, resigned from her position in the face of her NYSC Certificate scandal. Yet, here we are […]

Pantami in the Eye of the Storm, By Simon Kolawole

April 25, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, has been at the centre of a litany of controversies for two weeks non-stop — an unusually lengthy period in the Nigerian news cycle. A newspaper had reported that Pantami, who is also an Islamic cleric, was on the US terror watch list because of […]

CSOs, Nigerians can use court to compel Malami to prosecute Pantami for terrorism ―Ozekhome

April 24, 2021April 24, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Senior lawyer and human rights activist, Mike Ozekhome SAN, has called on civil society organisations and Nigerians to approach the court to compel the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami SAN, to prosecute Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, for acts of terrorism. Ozekhome also lambasted the Nigerian Presidency for exonerating Pantami’s past […]

Pantami is My Friend, But He Can’t Be Defended, By Farooq A. Kperogi

April 20, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

This is a difficult column to write because although scores of people have importuned me to intervene in the controversy regarding Communication and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami’s utterances before he came into government, my wife, who knows Pantami is my friend, pleaded with me to stay out of it. But I would […]

Kukah, Pantami, and Self-Interested Government Critics, By Farooq A. Kperogi

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Bishop Matthew Kukah’s Christmas message, which called attention to the deepening depths of death and despair that Nigeria has been dangerously degenerating into in the last few years, attracted the commendations of critics of the Buhari regime and invited the condemnation of regime honchos and defenders. The impassioned, partisan responses the bishop’s message provoked was […]