{"id":107677,"date":"2021-11-15T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=107677"},"modified":"2021-11-15T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:00:11","slug":"asuu-sets-up-committee-to-investigate-pantamis-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/15\/asuu-sets-up-committee-to-investigate-pantamis-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU sets up committee to investigate Pantami\u2019s professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday disclosed it is setting up a committee to investigate how the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Ali Pantami was appointed Professor of Cyber Security by the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO).<\/p>\n<p>ASUU President Prof Emmanuel Osodeke made the disclosure while briefing journalists in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to Osodeke, the controversial appointment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/08\/us-based-nigerian-professorkperogi-reacts-to-futos-asuu-panel-validating-pantamis-appointment-as-professor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pantami<\/a> by FUTO followed advertisements in some national dailies on September 2, 2020, with Pantami purportedly applying for and being awarded the position.<\/p>\n<p>Osodeke expressed displeasure over the issues and noted that the minister was only promoted to the rank of Lecturer 1 in 2013 before he left the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the minister allegedly skipped three positions \u2013 Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor \u2013 with each position requiring at least three years of experience.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Osodeke said that information at his disposal revealed that the minister resigned from the Abubakar Tafewa Balewa University Bauchi in 2015 and moved to a University in Saudi Arabia as an Assistant Professor, the equivalent of an Assistant Lecturer in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The ASUU president also recalled that Pantami left academia to become the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There are serious doubts and unanswered questions bordering on the qualification of Dr Isa Pantami for the position,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The attention of ASUU has been drawn to the controversy generated by the recent appointment of Dr Isa Pantami, the current Minister of Communications and Digital Economy as a Professor of Cyber Security by the Federal University of Technology Owerri,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018From 2013 to 2016 when he ceased to be an academic is just three years which means if Futo said he is right, it means the man moved from becoming Lecturer 1 to becoming a Professor within three years which is against all rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In view of the foregoing and having rejected FUTO Committee\u2019s report, NEC set up an independent committee to go to FUTO to investigate fully and get all the data so that we can put it to the public, the role of FUTO on how this person who spent three years during Lecturer 1 and Professor, how did he become a professor.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The ASUU president assured Nigerians that the outcome of the probe would be made public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday disclosed it is setting up a committee to investigate how the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Ali Pantami was appointed Professor of Cyber Security by the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). 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