NiRA Sets Up Stakeholders Engagement Committee

Nigeria internet Registration Association (NiRA) executive board of directors had at its quarterly meeting last week, reviewed its plans and noted the various successes recorded in the quarter.

At the meeting, the Board also approved the setup of a Stakeholders Engagement Committee and has charged it with the responsibility of further deepening the engagement of NIRA with its various stakeholders, including Registrars, Government, Civil Societies, Organized Private Sector, Women and the Youths of the Nation.

This was disclosed by Sunday Folayan‎, NiRA president in the Association’s eNewsletter, adding that the Committee is expected to engage with stakeholders in the promotion of .ng domain name registration.

Folayan also said he was privileged to discuss about NIRA with the Board of the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the Government Agency directly responsible for the activities of NIRA.

He said, “NITDA has been very supportive of NIRA activities. Apart from financially supporting NIRA, NITDA also partners with us in the SwitchTo .gov.ng campaign amongst Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

The new Committee, the President said, will be headed by Mr. Temitope Fashedemi, who is the Director of e-Government in the Federal Ministry of Communications Technology.

Other members include Mrs. Mary Uduma, NiRA’s Immediate Past President, Mr. Sikiru Shehu, the Registrar of CPN, Mr. Seinde Akinnusi, Past Director of IT in the Office of the Secretary General of the Federation (oSGF), Mr. Sunday Olutayo a member of the Board, as well as Yours truly. This action of active engagement will complement our publicity efforts and further grow NIRA.

He is also leading the Nigerian Delegation that the African Internet Summit (AIS) in Tunisia.

At the Summit, Folayan will be Chairing the Annual General Meeting of the AfriNIC Ltd, the IP Address Registry for Africa. NIRA is also a member of AFRINIC.