NITDA Boss Bemoans Non-Utilization of Nation's Internet Service Points.
The Director General, NITDA, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami made this known Thursday in Abuja.
The NITDA boss, in a statement issued by the Director, Media and External Affairs of the Agency, expressed his dismay with the non utilization of the Internet Service point at the Galaxy Backbone Headquarters in Abuja saying, this gave room for many illegal online news, radio and television stations across the country.
"It is our collective responsibility to respect the Nigeria Internet Service point in order to coordinate the activities of internet usage in the country. Many illegal online radio and television that have sprung up today is due to non utilization of this point", Dr. Pantoami said.
According to the NITDA CEO, "most of these online radio and television stations are being abused, used to canvass for agitations and causing disunity in the country".
Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami called for service improvement on the part of the service providers especially Galaxy backbone and urged the company to prevail on other service providers to adopt various policies of NITDA in discharge of their services.
"Recently, we received report from some Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) complaining of poor quality of service and as the regulator of IT in the country, I personally issued a press release on this and we are hoping that service would soon improve", Pantami said.
According to the NITDA CEO, "Charity they say, begins at home. We are using this visit to also urge you to build on your achievements. We are proud of your recent achievement on the attainment of the ISO 2000 Certification".
Dr. Pantami stated that, "it is our collective success and I believe we can still do better because there is always room for improvement".
Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, while advocating for the local hosting of data, said recent event that made Microsoft to establish a data centre in South Africa is regrettable.
He added that NITDA is working assiduously to forestall future occurrence of such action.
"We are seriously putting in place a strong data protection policy that would put a stop to such action. It will also aim at motivating service providers to host data locally. The issue of Data sovereignty is also critical; we are talking with some Ministries Departments Agencies (MDAs) to bring back their data to Nigeria. Some of them have come to our office and we gave them time frame to achieve this because it is secure, reliable and available for us to host our data locally", Pantami said.
Reiterating the need for collaboration between NITDA and Galaxy Backbone, NITDA's Director General and Chief Executive Officer said it is now compelling more than before for the two organisations to strengthening the existing relationship between them because of the very wide scope of ICT sector adding no agency can do it alone.
"We need to support each other, strengthen our relationship and advise ourselves on how to move the industry forward and deliver on our mandates to Nigerians", he stated.
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