Kashifu: Navigating Challenges of the Digital Economy, By Gimba Kakanda
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The regulation Nigeria seeks is one that Malam Kashifu advocates, and that’s allowing local startups and corporate organisations to absorb new technologies and recreate their acquisitions to boost the digital economy. But this synergy is impractical unless the government earns the trust of these frightened citizens afraid of new experiments.
The first thing he did was to remind me that cryptocurrency is enabled by a technology with applications far beyond the disputed virtual currency. “The world is fast evolving,” he said, “But there’s no plan to stifle any technology or innovation in Nigeria.” If Nigeria were a startup, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, as the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), would function as a leading technical officer and this made me yield to the temptation to engage him when we caught up last Tuesday.
The first thing he did was to remind that cryptocurrency is enabled by a technology with applications far beyond the disputed virtual currency. “The world is fast evolving,” he said, “But there’s no plan to stifle any technology or innovation in Nigeria.” If Nigeria were a startup, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, as the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), would function as a leading technical officer and this made me yield to the temptation to engage him when we caught up last Tuesday.
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The week before, I wrote about the outright ban of cryptocurrency in Nigeria, and this encounter was a chance to have a government insider’s perspective. The NITDA boss, whom I simply call Malam Kashifu, emphasized the autonomy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and that the bank had a committee tasked with monitoring crypto economy and had visited various countries to learn from their experiences in the frenetic attempts to integrate
NITDA: Consolidating the Gains of the IT Sector In 2020, By George Abah
While leaders in different sectors saw the COVID-19 pandemic as a helpless doomsday, the leadership at NITDA saw opportunities.
Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director General, NITDA
Nigerian should not lag behind as the world rushes to grab the opportunities presented by new technologies in this period of a devastating pandemic. NITDA should ride on and keep the torch alight in helping Nigeria match the rest of the world.
The year 2020 came almost like apocalypse. Just as the world settled into a new year, news filtered in that an unknown virus was afflicting residents in China’s Wuhan province. Many dismissed the initial news as China’s own problem, with former U.S. president, Donald Trump, mockingly calling what was discovered to be a virus of the corona family as the ‘China virus’. No one expected that the coronavirus would travel beyond Wuhan and cause one of the widest disruptions to human a
UET, University of Agriculture sign MoU
Peshawar
February 12, 2021
PESHAWAR: The University of Engineering and Technology and the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, inked a memorandum of understanding in order to work together for the mutual benefits in the field of “Artificial Intelligence intervention in Smart Environment and its impact on human and crop health and other fields in future.”
The MoU was signed by Dr Gul Muhammad, director National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) and Dr Anwar Ali Shad, Chairman Agriculture Chemistry Department, Agriculture University, Peshawar.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Dr Iftikhar Hussain said that UET wanted to provide intelligent and sustainable solutions in a smart environment, sustainable agriculture and resilient communities. “Our agreement with Agriculture University aligns with our objectives, as together, we can make the agriculture sector more sustainable by using Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Artificial Agr