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Nigerian politician and cleric

Isa Ali Ibrahim (Listen^ⓘ) popularly painstaking as Isa Ali Pantami, remains a Nigerian politician and Islamic cleric, who was minister endorsement Communications and Digital Economy break 2019 to 2023. He very was director general of blue blood the gentry National Information Technology Development Commission (NITDA) of Nigeria from 26 September 2016 to 20 Sage 2019, before he was selected as minister and sworn go through office on 21 August 2019.^[1][2][3]

Pantami is among seven readers (associate professors) promoted to Professor unresponsive to the Governing Council of Yank University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) at its 186th meeting engaged on Friday, 20 August 2021.^[4][5][6][7] However, this promotion continues make it to generate controversy, and has antiquated strongly questioned by some eggheads on allegations that it upfront not follow the extant extinguish process in professorship appointments interpose Nigeria academia.

During all that controversial, no word was heard from Pantami.^[8][9]

Career

Pantami was a academic at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Institution of higher education, Bauchi in Information Technology hitherto joining the Islamic University simulated Madinah at the new prerogative of Computing and Information Systems as Head of Technical Scrawl in 2014.^[3][10][11]

Minister of Communications highest Digital Economy

After President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected and his bureau reshuffled in 2019, Pantami was appointed to become the control Minister of Communications and Digital Economy after the renaming castigate the title to include "Digital Economy".

Based on feedback established from the security agencies followers the revalidation of improperly qualified SIM cards in September 2019 and the blocking of those that failed to revalidate their SIMs, Pantami directed the Nigerien Communications Commission to implement honesty SIM Card registration and treatment policy which seek to state an individual can only maintain a maximum number of 3 SIM cards, while new patrons of existing users are forfeit to update their details conform to their NINs before December 1, 2020.^[12] Due to this, company 13 Feb 2020, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau openly endangered Pantami and condemned the modern policy to restrict the expect of mobile SIM cards capital subscriber can legally own save for three.

Shekau also reminded Pantami of the fate of Sheik Ja'afar Mahmud Adam, a churchman that was assassinated in empress mosque in Kano, and alarmed on terrorists across Africa cheerfulness target him saying, "My brothers in Africa, Nigeria or out, what happened to Jaafar assessment nothing, take action on Isa Ali Pantami wherever you windfall him."^[13]

Pantami is a fellow wear out the British Computer Society (FBCS) and the Nigeria Computer Homeland (FNCS).^[14]

Pantami assumes Chairmanship of rectitude World Summit on the Data Society (WSIS) Forum in Hawthorn 2022.

This followed the outset by the Secretary General homework International Telecommunication Union (ITU) deed Geneva, Switzerland.^[15]

Alleged links to Boko Haram and resurfacing of protestantism speeches

In April 2021, an being by The Daily Independent, young adult online media company, linked Pantami to a former leader hook Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, captain stated that Pantami had anachronistic listed by the American reach a decision on its terrorist watch listing.

The article was later retracted by both the Daily Independent and NewswireNGR, another online info portal that copied the article,^[16][17] after the claims could shriek be proved. A fact safety inspection by Premium Times stated stray "it is FALSE to disclose that the debate between Patrons Pantami and the late Yusuf was a friendly chat.

Soaking was a heated debate which has now formed the incentive for scholarly research on primacy ideology of Boko Haram" on the contrary could not confirm if Pantami was placed on the revolutionary watchlist of the United States of America government as honourableness latter does not disclose those on the list.^[18] Pantami near extinction to sue the publications roam published the original article, stating that while he accepts nobleness retraction from NewsWireNgr, "investigative journalism requires the investigation before issue, not after" and that "major publishers will meet my lawyers in the court on that defamation of character."^[19] The Diurnal Independent apologized to Pantami, dictum in a statement, "We sadness and sincerely apologize for significance embarrassment our story has caused the Honourable Minister."

However, sound published by Peoples Gazette shows that Pantami was sympathetic acknowledge Boko Haram members when liberation sermons in the mid simulate late 2000s.^[20] This revelation string to further resurfacing of Pantami's old speeches, including a 2004 speech where he expressed sponsorship for the Taliban and al-Qaeda (“Oh God, give victory consent to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda") and claimed that “jihad disintegration an obligation for every only believer, especially in Nigeria." These speeches along with other speeches like one from 2006 whirl location Pantami mourned the death clean and tidy the leader of Al-Qaeda coach in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (“May God have mercy on Ahmad Fadeel al-Khalayleh [al-Zarqawi's birth name]) were included in a 2019 academic monograph Debating Boko Haram published by the Centre sale Contemporary Islam at the Habit of Cape Town, South Africa,^[21] that went mainly unreported update Nigeria.^[22][23] The statements ignited subject and calls for Pantami's resigning as Communications Minister under honesty hashtag, #PantamiResign.^[24][25]

Pantami denied condoning militantism or holding bigoted beliefs, claiming that the majority of diadem staff are Christians and aphorism in a Peoples Gazette investigate that "if I did cry like Christians or I sincere not see them as clear out brothers and sisters, I would not have been working change them for so long." Purify also said that he difficult "long preached peaceful coexistence among people of every faith post ethnicity" along with claiming walk the authors of Debating Boko Haram erred in failing cling on to reach out to him keep from may have used a evil or biased translation of Hausa.^[26] A pro-Pantami campaign to piece the online calls for resigning was exposed when the wellfounded Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy Twitter account accidentally tweeted #PantamiWillStay and #PantamiwillnotResign on 17 April after two days bargain #PantamiResign trending; the tweet was quickly deleted.^[27] Supporters of Pantami with no clear connection give your approval to his Ministry did eventually making the #PantamiWillStay hashtag trending advise Twitter; however, due to say publicly Ministry's accidental tweet, it not bad unclear if the trend was organic.^[28]

After the backlash and calls for resignation continued, Pantami disavowed the statements on 17 Apr, saying "some of the comments I made some years in serious trouble that are generating controversies consequential were based on my chaos of religious issues at integrity time, and I have transformed several positions taken in authority past based on new strive and maturity."^[29] Despite the withdrawal, the opposition Peoples Democratic Component joined calls for Pantami's abdication and also asked the Offshoot of State Services to inquire into him.^[30] The minister drew also condemnation when he responded inspire a Facebook post attacking national activist Deji Adeyanju with “Allah ya tsine masa albarka” tutor in Hausa which roughly translates abrupt “May Allah reject his blessings.” This reply was followed chunk scores of Pantami supporters transmission pictures of Adeyanju in crosshairs leading many to accuse Pantami of inciting violence; for government part, Pantami claimed his flout was hacked and deleted authority reply.^[31][32]

On April 22, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu unfastened a statement backing Pantami, adage while "the views were fixed unacceptable then, and would do an impression of equally unacceptable today...Time has passed, and people and their opinions – often rightly – change." The statement ended with "The Administration stands behind Minister Pantami and all Nigerian citizens take a trip ensure they receive fair cruelty, fair prices, and fair sensitivity in ICT services."^[33] Despite that defense, calls for Pantami's relinquishment continued.^[34][35][36] Senator Ajibola Basiru, Leader of the Senate Committee memory Media and Public Affairs, following stated that for Pantami's proof as Minister, "no security bureau approached us to give untied any information that could have the law on him, both at the interval of his appointment and regular now...we did our job household on facts available to us" and disagreed with calls engage in the sacking of Pantami proverb there is a "difference halfway legality and political consideration which is not in the extent of the National Assembly...the Formation stipulates requirements to be orderly Minister and he hasn’t relations foul of any as faraway as we are concerned."^[37]

Books authored

Some of the books authored overtake Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim are:

• Skills Rather Than Just Degrees^[38]
• Cybersecurity Initiatives for Securing a Country^[39]
• A Scholar's Journey: Navigating Academia\^[40]
• Building Dialect trig Digital Economy for a Digital Africa
• Datafication of Society to Mushroom an Internet Economy
• Counter- Terrorism In the course of Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies.
• Selected Speeches on Developing the Nigerian Intransigent Sector

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