The federal government of Nigeria has revealed plans to establish an ICT hub in the nation’s capital city of Abuja. The move, according to the government agencies that are involved in the project, is an effort aimed at bringing about technological advancement of the FCT.
The establishment of the ICT hub is being undertaken by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA). Both agencies reached agreement following a courtesy by Mallam Arabi Tukur, executive chairman of Abuja Enterprise Agency, to the headquarters of NITDA in Abuja.
The hub is expected to become the IT and innovation hub for the northern region of the country.
Tukur said, “It is high time the agency and NITDA came together to consider the establishment of the hub.”
According to him, there facilities in FCT that could be leveraged upon to provide the hub for IT innovation adding that his agency could availed the parties the office complex that could be used for the take off of the hub.
Responding, Peter Jack, Director General of NITDA, said the agency would partner with the AEA to explore some of the opportunities it presented. Acknowledging the investment of ICT in entrepreneurship, the DG said the relationship between NITDA and AEA has been nurtured over time and it high time it became beneficial to the country at large.