Nigeria is currently shining at the on-going public
policy forum on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
as Revd. Sunday Folayan was re-elected as the chairman of the African Network Information
Centre (AFRINIC) for another term of one year, reports ITRealms.
Also on the board of AFRINIC as gathered by ITRealms is Seun Ojedeji, while other
Nigerians equally playing actively in this industry include, Mr. Wale Adedokun who
is the chairman of the Nomination Committee (NomCom) and Dewale Ajao as
chairman, Policy Development Working Group at AFRINIC, whereas Omo Oaiya, is
representing AFRINIC at the Advisory Committee, Address Supporting Organisation
(ASO-AC) of ICANN.
The re-election of Folayan came at the AFRINIC pre-event
session which comprised holding of its general election.
Equally, AFRINIC reconstituted its three board standing
committees, namely Remuneration, Finance and Audit respectively.
The four-man
Remuneration Committee consist of Lucky
Masilela, Sunday Folayan, Serge Ilunga and Alan Barrett. While the Finance Committee is made up of Haitham El
Nakhal, Subramanian Moonesamy, and Alan Barrett; just as the Audit Committee comprised Christian
Bope, Abibu Ntahigiye and Seun Ojedeji.
ITRealms recalls
that Folayan is also the president of the Nigeria Internet Registration
Association (NIRA).
In addition, AFRINIC
is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa with headquarters in Ebene
City, Mauritius with Alan Barrett as the chief executive officer.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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