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July 8, 2019
Director-General, National Information TechnologyDevelopment Agency, NITDA Isa Pantami says the federal government will continueto leverage on technology to foster sustainable national development.
He stated this at an award ceremony in Abuja tocelebrate the outstanding performance of Nigerian students at the Global Finalof the Huawei ICT Competition held recently at the company’s headquarters inDongguan, China.
In a communique made available to newsmen, heassured that the country, at the heart of its development, was playing a keyrole in representing Africa on the global scale of ICT knowledge and capacitybuilding.
A team of three Nigerian students, in May, emergedamong the top three in the Global Final of the Huawei ICT Competition, with 49other teams and a total of 147 students representing 30 countries racing forthe global trophy.
Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian, notedthat Nigeria had experienced exponential growth in the past 20 years sinceHuawei came into the country.