NITDA TO PARTNER NASARAWA STATE ON ICT CAPACITY BUILDING
October 05, 2019
In order to build and develop the ICT capacity in his state, the Executive Governor of Nassarawa State, his Excellency Engineer Abdullahi Sule today paid a courtesy visit on the Director General/ CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency ( NITDA) Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CIIE at NITDA’s Corporate Headquarters in Abuja.
The Governor, while delivering his address, applauded the efforts of the Agency in actualizing its mandates, stating that ICT is one of the fundamental pillars that leads to diversification of the economy.
The Governor stated that his visit was to solicit for partnership in the area of capacity building through ICT for indigenes of Nassarawa State in order to enable them key into information technological skills that will advance the state.
He added that most of the tertiary institutions and even primary schools in the state are now been introduced to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to prepare them for the era of innovation in ICT.
The Director General of NITDA, Mr Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi CCIE while responding said;
“We are proud to have a governor like you with passion and readiness to work for the growth and development of the country through ICT”.
“We at NITDA normally appreciate any institution doing things in the development of ICT because automatically it is like helping the Agency to achieve its mandate”, he added.
The DG assured that any policy implemented by NITDA is targeted at changing the way things are done for effective and efficient service delivery to the general public.
Inuwa stated that the Agency’s doors are always open for progressive partnerships that will elevate the ICT sector, create jobs and revenue flow for the country. He promised to explore ways of partnership with the state that will ensure mutual benefit.
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