Pantami inaugurates two ministerial inter-agency committees on completed projects

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has inaugurated two inter-agency committees with the mandate to review, collate, commission and communicate in local languages Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects implemented for Nigerians under President Muhammadu Buhari.

The two Ministerial committees which are Completed Projects Review Committee and Committee on Media Engagement in Local Languages are chaired by Ayuba Shuaibu Executive Secretary, Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) and Dr Usman Gambo Abdullahi, Director, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) respectively.

Memberships of the committees are drawn from all the five agencies supervised by the Ministry including NCC, NITDA, Galaxy Backbone, NIGCOMSAT and NIPOST.
Pantami, who inaugurated the Committee in Abuja, stated that while the Ministry and the agencies had successfully complemented a number of projects across the geo-political zones in the country which have great benefits to Nigerians, the existence of these projects have not been sufficiently communicated to the public in our local languages.
“There has not been so much awareness creation on the presence of these projects among Nigerians who are the ultimate beneficiaries”, he noted.