Panic and anxiety have swept across the nation’s Telecoms sector as President Bola Tinubu approved top appointments in Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST).
The appointments were contained in a press release issued by presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale cutting across agencies under the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy as follows:
(1) EVC / CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) — Dr. Aminu Maida;
(2) MD / CEO, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) — Nkechi Egerton-Idehen;
(3) DG / CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) — Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi;
(4) National Commissioner / CEO, Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) — Dr. Vincent Olatunji; and,
(5) Postmaster General / CEO, Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) — Tola Odeyemi.
Furthermore, the press release said, in line with President Bola Tinubu’s determination to maximally leverage on Nigeria’s proven technological and digital economic prowess to reposition the nation’s economy toward greater financial inclusion, he has appointed a new Special Adviser to the President
on Technology and Digital Economy in the person of Idris Alubankudi.
The appointments take immediate effect according to Ajuri Ngelale.
Daily Spokesman’s checks moments ago revealed that Dr. Maida, until his appointment, was the Executive Director, Technology & Operations at Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS), with over 15 years’ cognate industry spanning national and international climes in Financial Technology, Telecoms & Enterprise Technology.
Until his appointment at NIBSS, he was CTO at the Nigerian based FinTech Arca Payments Network and Senior Manager at Cisco Systems UK.
Aminu holds an Masters degree in Engineering in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath in the UK.
