The newly appointed Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi has said that his vision for the regulatory agency is to make it smarter in operations and also to ensure it lives up to its mandate to regulate and inspire a positive growth in the industry.
Abdullahi made this known during his first official meeting with the agency’s staff even as he charged them to up their game and deliver on their official responsibilities.
The appointment of Abdullahi makes him the fifth Director-General of NITDA and the youngest so far at 39 years of age. He succeeded Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, who is now the Minister of Communications.
Until his appointment, the NITDA’s boss was a principal officer at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and was on secondment to NITDA as a Technical Assistant to Pantami, which should afford him significant knowledge to understand and manage the agency.
Describing himself, the new NITDA boss said he is one opened to ideas and challenged the staff to work as a team.
He said, “My vision for NITDA is to completely transform the agency into a smart organisation,” said Abdullahi adding that: “working as a team, everyone has a role to play, from those at the top to those at the bottom of the ladder.”
The new boss of NITDA comes to office with over 15 years of experience in IT operations, business transformation and solution architecture, across both private and public sectors. A graduate of Computer Science from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, he worked in Galaxy Backbone and held various positions including IP Network Field Engineer and Senior Solution Architect & Lead, before leaving for the CBN in 2014 as a ‘technology architect developing technology architecture repository that gives 360 view of the bank’s IT infrastructure and easy decision on new IT investment.
