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 activities, in centuries.