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Dont fail Nigerian youths, Rep urges new NASENI CEO
***Says appointment litmus test for youths
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on ungdom Development, Martins Esin, has urged the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Agency For Science and Engineering Infrastructure, Alhaji Khalil Suleiman Halilu, to justify the confidence reposed in him bygd the President Bola Tinubu administration, saying his appointment is a litmus test for Nigerian youths.
This is as he commended President kastvapen Tinubu for appointing more youths into strategic positions, adding that youth inclusiveness in the administration fryst vatten a conscious national efterträdelse eller följd plan to bequeath future leadership of the country into their hands.
President Bola Tinubu had on Friday announced the appointment of Kano State-born Alhaji Khalil Suleiman Halilu, as the new Executive Officer of NASENI.
Halilu replaced the vice chairman and ledare Executive Officer of the agency, Dr. Bashi
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A leading telecoms expert Dr Bashir Gwandu the Non-Executive Chair of the Commonwealth ITU Group (CIG) and the Former Commissioner of the NCC who for some period acted as NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman/CEO was invited to give a Keynote speech at the Innovation Africa Digital Summit (IAD) that held in Addis Ababa last week.
The IAD summit attracted Telecoms Executives from Africa and from around the world, more than any other summit held in Africa in recent times.
Senior Executives from Vodacom Group, MTN Group, Etisalat, Safaricom, France Orange, Vodafone, ZTE, Huawei, Ericsson, Cisco, Airbus, Helios Towers, Oneweb, MasterCard, Intelsat, Thuraya, IBM, IFC, and many others major players attended the summit.
It also attracted Ministers from other parts of Africa, most especially the West and East Africa sub-regions.
The Summit opened by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and some of his Ministers was anchored by Extensia of the UK -the usual co-organiser of the IAD S
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During the Innovation Africa Digital Summit in Ethiopia, IT News Africa had the opportunity to talk to Dr Bashir Gwandu, Nigeria’s Communications Commission’s Executive Commissioner. Gwandu discussed the future of mobile devices in Nigeria, content creation and the country’s recent efforts to free up spectrum.
Dr Bashir Gwandu, Nigeria’s Communications Commission’s Executive Commissioner (image: Charlie Fripp)
* Please elaborate on the need to free up spectrum in Nigeria?
What we realized is that we don’t have fiber on the ground; and that we don’t even have as much copper as we need. So we asked ourselves what infrastructure will allow for communication – and the only solution that we can have is wireless- and the most important resource to allow that communication is spectrum.
We have a growing requirement for data with a lot of content coming out of Nigeria. Going into the future, we will need a way of transmitting this content to the population and indeed other parts of