Nigeria’s Newly Appointed Head Of Federal Inland Revenue Services Removes Fake Honorary Doctorate From Wikipedia

The so-called university was long exposed as a fake degree mill, akin to the equally phantom “Buxton University” named by Senator Andy Uba, former domestic aide to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the source of his “PhD.”
In announcing Mr. Fowler’s appointment yesterday, President Buhari’s spokesperson had claimed that Mr. Fowler “had his higher education in the United States where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Business Administration degree from the California State University.”
An official statement issued by Mr. Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, also claimed that Mr. Fowler holds an “Honorary Doctorate Degree of the Irish International University”.
The listing of Mr. Fowler’s academic degree raised eyebrows among Nigerians, especially on social media after SaharaReporters sent out a tweet exposing Mr. Fowler’s link with the fake university, an award that gave him the entitlement to refer to himself as “Dr. Fowler”.
Stung by the revelation, Mr. Fowler whose appointment as the head of the FIRS was reportedly facilitated by Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, has edited his bio on the web pages of the Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS)http://www.lirs.gov.ng/mr-babatunde-fowler-full-resume/ but Mr. Fowler’s handlers are yet to remove his “Dr” title from his personal webpage http://meetfowler.com/aboutme.html.
A Facebook post by a US-based academic, Farooq Kperogi, typified the critical response to the controversial appointment of Mr. Fowler. “After months of delays, ostensibly to properly vet his appointees, President Buhari just appointed somebody that may turn out to be a total fraud,” stated Mr. Kperogi, who earned a Ph.D. His Facebook post added that Mr. Buhari “appointed a certain ‘Dr.’ William Babatunde Fowler as the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).  Mr. Fowler has changed his bio on the website of the Lagos Inland Revenue Service Sahara Reporters Media
Mr. Fowler’s lower degrees appear legitimate. Biographical entries on Wikipedia state that Mr. Fowler “obtained his first Bachelors’ degree with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a minor in Political Science in 1978. He completed a second bachelors’ degree program at California State University, Los Angeles and also a Master of Business Administration degree program at California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1981.” As at yesterday Wikipedia listed Mr. Fowler’s so-called “Honorary Doctorate Degree” from the Irish International University on their page but overnight efforts were made to remove any reference to the Irish International University honorary degree from Fowler’s Wikipedia entry.