Isa Ali Pantami

He was appointed director general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on 26 September 2016, and on 21 August 2019 became the first Minister of Communications and Digital Economy after the ministry's title was expanded, serving until 29 May 2023 ¹. As minister he drove the SIM-card registration and national-identity linkage policy, and he chaired the World Summit on the Information Society Forum in 2022 ¹. A 2021 promotion to professor of cybersecurity by the Federal University of Technology Owerri drew academic controversy over whether due process had been followed ¹.

Before government office Pantami was known as a preacher and as chief imam of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University mosque ¹. In April 2021 recordings of sermons from the mid-2000s resurfaced in which he had expressed sympathy for the Taliban and al-Qaeda; amid national controversy and resignation calls he publicly recanted those views on 17 April 2021, saying his understanding had changed with new evidence and maturity ¹. The Hausa article describes him as a leading scholar of the Sunnah ², a description of his preaching orientation rather than the naming of a school.

No source used here names a school for Pantami: the English article never calls him Salafi and never names the Izala Society as his affiliation, the Urdu stub derives from it, and Wikidata records Islam only ^{1 3 4}. The museum's data record therefore leaves his school unknown, flagged for the founder, with the movement reading preserved in the record's note.

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