Mr. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi has been appointed as the new Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). The appointment takes immediate effect according to a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media & Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu.
The appointment comes as part of ratified replacements for heads of federal government agencies that were recently appointed as ministers.
Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed has been appointed Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons. He replaces Sadiya Umar Farouk.
Dr. Chioma Ejikeme has been appointed Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, replacing Sharon O. Ikeazor, while Adeleke Moronfolu Adewolu is to replace Sunday Dare as Executive Commissioner (Stakeholder Management) Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). President Buhari has forwarded Adewolu’s name to the Senate for confirmation as a replacement for Sunday Akin Dare.
The newly appointed NITDA boss takes over from Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, the outgoing director-general of the agency who was appointed the new minister of communications of the Federal Republic.
Abdullahi was previously the principal officer at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who was on secondment to NITDA as a Technical Assistant to Pantami.
