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“Dr”
Williams Babatunde Fowler, new head of FIRS holds fake honorary doctorate degree (Image source: naija247news.com)
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Amid the
controversies generated following revelations that the newly appointed head of
the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, was brandishing a fake
doctorate degree from a United Kingdom institution, Irish International
University, the 59-year-old has since dropped the honourary degree from his
Wikipedia entry.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday named Fowler as the new head of the
FIRS, but hours after the announcement of his appointment, it emerged that his
doctorate degree might have been fraudulently obtained.
Sahara
Reporters, an online news platform, claimed in one of its stories that Fowler’s
‘Ph.D’ obtained from IIU in May 2007 was fake.
The
Punch report continues:
The
former Lagos Internal Revenue Service boss, according to SR, “engaged in
desperate efforts to erase the controversial title from the Internet especially
on Wikipedia.” His biography has been edited on the website of the LIRS while
the title of “Dr.” remains on his personal webpage. Seven years ago, a BBC investigation
labelled IIU as a fake institution dishing out “substandard and worthless
degrees” to individuals, especially influential politicians and business men
from Africa.
The
non-existent university is said to be linked to Baron Knowth, a chartered
accountant whose real name was discovered to be Jeffrey Wooller.
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