Nigeria
Internet Registration Association (NIRA) has elected Mr. Sunday Folayan as its
3rd Executive President at the 7th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of
the association, as it adopts a change of status from an Internet Registration
Association to Internet Registry Administrators, ITRealms reports.
Folayan,
who was handed over the mantle of leadership by consensus of NIRA registrars
and financial members, ran for the office unopposed, with three other members,
Muhammed Rudman, Sunday Olutayo and Segun Akano, elected into the board.
Highlighting
most of her achievements, out-going
president, Mrs. Mary Uduma, said the
association has fared well under her leadership. “Most importantly”, she said,
“is the purchase and renovation of
the
NIRA Office Complex, where most Committee and Executive Board of Directors
meetings are now been held.”
Mrs.
Uduma also noted that her regime recorded a growth in registered domain names.
She said, “Newly registered domain names in the year stood at 18,870, with a
marginal growth from 16,911 in 2013”.
The
New President is also the Chief Executive Officer of General Data Engineering
Services, SKANNET. In his acceptance speech, he promised to use his wealth of
experience in the industry to ginger effective participation of entrepreneurs
and registered businesses in Nigerian.
“We
would first create the need and the demand, we would ensure that people have
their own personal domains, either in the name space or .ng space; and also
ensure we work with appropriate authorities to empower more businesses to be
able to run their own domain names.” He said.
Similarly,
the association in line with its mission to be the administrator for the
Nigeria Country Code Top Level Domain (.ng ccTLD), unanimously adopted a
proposal to change its status as Nigeria Internet Registration Association to
the Nigeria Internet Registry Administrators.
The
reason for the change, according to the association, is central to the
understanding of the word ‘association’, which to them reflects an entity
without a long life span. Stating that an association is an organization that
can be here today and be born elsewhere tomorrow.
ITRealms learnt that the newly elected
President is the immediate past Vice President, Executive Board of Directors,
and the Chairman of the Africa Network Information Centre (AfriNIC), also a
member of the Board National Information Technology development Agency (NITDA)
and Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN).
Nsolibe
Daniel/Ed, Ops.
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