Yemi Adebowale | Breaking Times
President Muhammadu Buhari’s newly appointed head of Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Tunde Fowler is parading a fake honorary doctorate certificate from the Irish International University, Nigerian online newspaper Sahara Reporters reported on Thursday.
According to Sahara Reporters, the Irish International University is a phony University in England that had been on Government blacklist since 2005.
FLASH: Man @MBuhari just appointed to head FIRS, "Dr" Babatunde Fowler, has a fake honorary doctorate degree from "Irish Int. University"
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) August 20, 2015
FLASH: Babatunde's "Irish International University" is a phony University in England that had been on Government blacklist since 2005.
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) August 20, 2015
Further investigations by BREAKING TIMES on Thursday revealed that Degrees from the Irish International University are not accredited nor recognised in the UK, US or Ireland.
It will be recalled that Fowler’s former boss when he served as head of the Lagos Inland Revenue Service (LIRS), ex-Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu was enmeshed in a certificate forgery scandal regarding his purported degree from a Chicago university.
In one instance, Tinubu, on 10/4/93 forfeited to the US government the sum of $460,000 held in his name, in his account no. 263226700, at First Heritage Bank. The records go further to explain that the funds, forfeited to the Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, were seized by the Us government because they were acquired through the distribution of hard drugs.