The Chief Software Architect and Chairman,
Programos Software Group, Mr. Amos Emmanuel, Commissioner for Telecommunications
& Information Technologies at ECOWAS, Dr. Isaias Barreto da Rosa, Group
Chief Executive Officer, eTranzact Global, Mr. Valentine Obi, are leading the top
five awardees for the 2017 NationalInformation Technology Merit Awards (NITMA), reports ITRealms.
Others are the Chief Strategy Officer
& Cyber Security Leader, Deloitte West Africa, Mr. Tope Aladenusi, and Chief
Executive Officer, Precise Financial Systems Ltd, Dr. Yele Okeremi.
Disclosing this to ITRealms,
the President, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and organisers of NITMA,
President, Prof. Adesola Aderounmu, said the award is scheduled
to hold at the MUSON Centre, Onikan Lagos on Thursday, November 30, 2017 by
5pm.
He noted that annually, NCS recognizes,
celebrates and rewards outstanding excellence and exceptional contributions in
the Information Technology field through the unique national platform NITMA provides.
“Our focus as a society is progress for
the sector in particular and for the nation as a whole,” he said, stressing
that as the acknowledged professional authority facilitating the development of
an inclusive, globally competitive, prosperous and knowledge-based Nigeria, NCS is committed to
recognizing and rewarding outstanding hard work and excellence in accelerating
IT development.
Prof. Aderounmu
also told ITRealms that in
choosing the awardees, the key areas and issues affecting growth in the sector
and society are addressed.
“For all awards, key criteria include IT
specialisations, NCS standards and global best practices,” he said.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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