Isa Ali Pantami
FNCS, FBCS, FIIM, MCPN, CON.
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy
In office
21 August 2019 – 29 May 2023
Preceded byAdebayo Shittu
Succeeded byBosun Tijani
Director General of the NITDA
In office
26 September 2016 – 20 August 2019
Preceded byPeter Jack
Succeeded byInuwa Kashifu Abdullahi
Personal details
Born
Isa Ali Ibrahim

Gombe State, Nigeria
RelationsMarried
ResidenceAbuja
Alma mater

Isa Ali Ibrahim (Listenⓘ) popularly known as Isa Ali Pantami, is a Nigerian politician and Islamic cleric, he served as minister of Communications and Digital Economy from 2019 to 2023. He also served as director general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) of Nigeria from 26 September 2016 to 20 August 2019, before he was nominated as minister and sworn into office on 21 August 2019.[1][2][3]

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(Associate Professors) promoted to Professor by the Governing Council of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) at its 186th meeting held on Friday, 20 August 2021.[4][5][6][7] However, this promotion continues to generate controversy, and has been strongly questioned by some intellectuals on allegations that it did not follow the extant due process in professorship appointments in Nigeria academia. During all this controversial, no word was heard from Pantami [8][9]

Career

Pantami was a lecturer at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi in Information Technology before joining the Islamic University of Madinah at the new faculty of Computing and Information Systems as Head of Technical Writing in 2014.[3][10][11]

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy

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

Based on feedback received from the security agencies following the revalidation of improperly registered SIM cards in September 2019 and the blocking of those that failed to revalidate their SIMs, Pantami directed the Nigerian Communications Commission to implement the SIM Card registration and usage policy which seek to ensure an individual can only have a maximum number of 3 SIM cards, while new users of existing users are expected to update their details with their NINs before December 1, 2020.[12] Due to this, on 13 Feb 2020, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau openly threatened Pantami and condemned the new policy to restrict the number of mobile SIM cards a subscriber can legally own to three. Shekau also reminded Pantami of the fate of Sheikh Ja'afar Mahmud Adam, a cleric that was assassinated in his mosque in Kano, and called on terrorists across Africa to target him saying, “My brothers in Africa, Nigeria or elsewhere, what happened to Jaafar is nothing, take action on Isa Ali Pantami wherever you find him.[13]”

Pantami is a fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and the Nigeria Computer Society (FNCS).[14]

Pantami assumes Chairmanship of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum in May 2022. This followed the inauguration by the Secretary General of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at Geneva, Switzerland.[15]

He is exceptional! May Allah bless him.

References

  1. ^ "Buhari swears in ministers (LIVE UPDATES)". Premium Times. 21 August 2019. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  2. ^ "21 August 2019". No. 21 August 2019. Punch Newspapers. 21 August 2019. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b Meet the New NITDA Director-General-Dr Isa Ali Pantami Archived 30 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Sahara Standard
  4. ^ "Communications Minister, Pantami Becomes Professor of Cyber Security". PRNigeria. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Pantami promoted to professor of cyber security". Guardian Newspapers. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  6. ^ Malumfashi, Muhammad (6 September 2021). "Isa Pantami ya zama Farfesan Jami'a yana rike da kujerar Ministan Gwamnati a Najeriya". legit.hausa.ng. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Aisha Buhari Pantami: President Buhari wife explain why she use Prof. Isa Pantami video on Nigeria security". BBC News Pidgin. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  8. ^ "Pantami's fake FUTO professorship joins other intellectual frauds". 11 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Definitive case against Pantami's FUTO fraudfessorship". 18 September 2021.
  10. ^ Pantami Archived 13 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine, National Information Technology Development Agency
  11. ^ "Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami". islamicmarkets.com. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  12. ^ Ekine, Moseph. "Why you no go fit use pass three SIM Cards for Nigeria". BBC Pidgin. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  13. ^ Haruna, Abdulkareem (15 February 2020). "In new video, Boko Haram leader Shekau threatens minister, journalists". BBC Pidgin. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, PhD, FNCS, FBCS, FIIM". NITDA. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  15. ^ "ITU appoints Pantami as chairman of World Summit on Information Society Forum 2022". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

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