The decision was announced by the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE.
Browsing: Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi
Abdullahi early in the year disclosed that to keep up with the pace of innovation that has swept the country, there should be a realignment of the Act with “tenets and ideals of the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and Nigeria’s Digital Economy Policy.
This was discussed when the DG and CEO, NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, received the DG of NEMA, Mustapha Habib Ahmad
Interestingly, before his appointment, Abdullahi was serving as Technical Assistant to the immediate-past Director-General of the agency, now Minister of Communications, Dr. Isa Pantami.
Abdullahi made this known during the staff general meeting held at the agency’s corporate headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.
The Country Director of Global IT, Rasheed Bakare, in a commendation letter to the President, applauded the appointment of 39-year-old Abdullahi, who they described as “a digital guru and industry key player” with passion to expand his predecessors’ achievements in NITDA.