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Professor Ibrahim Bello Kano (IBK) on Pantami's book, "Scholar’s Journey: Navigating Academia".

"My two quick comments on Mr. Pantami's book (it's unlikely that I would ever bother to read it). First, the definite article is missing: "navigating THE academia" is the proper syntactical combination. He couldn't possibly have been at Academia but possibly one that could be regarded as part of the academe.

Second, the word (here it's a verb) "navigating" is a piece of journalistic usage, not an educated one. Even as a metaphoric, the word is misplaced because no one can navigate, or could have navigated, an institution. One can navigate a piece of Island on the sea or the ocean. And since Mr. Pantami was only for the most part a Lecturer 1 or 2 where he first served, and didn't spend a whole working career in the university system or in a university's employment, he was NOT a navigator in that sense but someone passing through or only had a brief stint at university work. Finally, he was "made" a Professor by a university where he never worked, taught, sat in its Senate, worked in its committees, never examined or marked UG or PG exam scripts, and his whose promotion papers were never processed at the departmental and faculty levels, and, indeed, he never had a payroll number... Mr. Pantami was thus never a scholar in the classical or academic sense of that word. I wonder whether he's now teaching or giving classes or seminar papers at any university after his leaving office in May 2023.'

—Prof. IBK"

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