NITDA attracts global investors to Nigeria’s growing digital market

*Kashifu Inuwa, CCIE, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, welcomes the Seidor Team, led by Juan Seli, Spanish Ambassador to Nigeria, emphasising the IT regulatory agency is collaborating with the group on key areas, including Talent Management, Innovations, Local Content and Capacity Building, among others

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

In a strategic partnership move to bolster up Nigeria’s standing in the global digital market, Malam Kashifu Inuwa, CCIE, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has reiterated that the country is open to investors and investments.

Inuwa, who stated this after giving a nod to the collaboration request pitched by Seidor Team led by Juan Seli, Spanish Ambassador to Nigeria,  who were on a courtesy visit to the Corporate Headquarters of the Agency in Abuja, FCT.

The Information Technology (IT) sector regulatory agency, in a statement, said the Director-General of NITDA, represented by Dr. Usman Abdullahi Gambo, Director of Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Solutions (ITIS), asserted that Nigeria is unarguably, inching towards joining the community of digitally driven nations.

Inuwa, who described the team’s visit as historic, stressed that the areas to collaborate on are vast, especially as there are multiple projects that NITDA is driving from organisational point of view and others driven on behalf of other agencies of the Nigerian Government.

Major areas of partnership with Seidor Team, by NITDA CEO

Enumerating key areas of partnership, which include Talent Management, Innovations, Local Content, Capacity Building, among others, the NITDA Chief Executive also informed the delegation that the creation of the National Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR) underpins government’s determination to develop a suitable environment for discovering and harnessing the limitless ingenious ideas of Nigeria’s teeming youth population for national growth through the promotion of innovative technologies.

Inuwa stated: “With the actualisation of the centre, the youth segment of the population is constantly being challenged to channel their ingenuity towards preparing solutions that seek to address challenges across all sectors of the economy, immediate and future problems that have global impact.

“One of the initiatives of the Honourable Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani, is for us to be able to build the capacity of 3 million Nigerians.

“That’s the 3MTT programme by the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, which is expected to generate a pipeline of technical talent in line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s vision of creating 2 million digital jobs by 2025.”

He further assured the visiting team of the Agency’s readiness to deepen discussions in furtherance of the collaboration, and expressed optimism that the partnership would be mutually beneficial to all parties.

Earlier in his remarks, Juan Sell, leader of the delegation and Ambassador of Spain to Nigeria, while facilitating the collaborative talks, noted that the partnership would deepen the already existing bilateral relations between the two countries.

Sell said: “We are here to facilitate and we will be following up on your proposal to organise further technical meetings or focus.

“And as I said, we are open to any recommendations because we are aware of the central role that you play in the ecosystem.”

The Ambassador of Spain to Nigeria also stated: “As for other meetings that the team would have outside the agency with other potential partners in the public sector or the private sector, we will be very grateful and look forward to receiving your recommendations and advice on the best approach to hit the ground running.”

The meeting also featured slide presentation from one of SEIDOR’s representatives, Jaume Feuntes, who explained the fact that SEIDOR is a technology consulting company that promotes the competitiveness and the transformation of organisations, based on the opportunities presented by technologies and business knowledge, always focusing on the value of the human factor and committed to talent hunt and social development.

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