Confirming this at the group’s recent meeting at Southern
Sun Ikoyi-Lagos, the newly elected chairman of NCCF-ICT Sectoral Working Group,
Mr. Pius Okigbo Jnr, who doubles as the Chief Executive Officer of InfoSoft
Nigeria Limited, charged the team to populate the working group to the
stakeholders across the country.
He gave an all-encompassing Terms of Reference (TOR) as “To
design a proposal for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and
Stakeholders’ Mobilisation for Engagement and Promotion of Local Content.”
In his acceptance speech on behalf of his team, Mr. Nweke
who also is the Lead Consulting Strategist at DigitalSENSE Africa, assured of
their readiness to assist the sector by contributing their quota especially at
this time.
Also, he called for the support of team members and the
entire working group to make certain they deliver on their mandate to the
benefit of the ICT sector.
Recall that Okigbo Jnr, a former President, Institute of
Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) recently took over the NCCF-ICT’s
mantle from the Executive Director at Systemspecs, Mr. Deremi Atanda.
ITREALMS recalls that NCCF as enshrined in Section 57 of the
Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010, is a platform for
information sharing and collaboration in the Nigerian oil and gas industry with
respect to upcoming projects in the oil and gas industry, Information on
available local capabilities; and other policy proposals that may be relevant
to Nigerian content development.
The NCCF-ICT, therefore, is made up of key industry stakeholders, government and regulatory agencies, with key objectives including identifying issues and responsibilities; to propose interventions that could address issues and harness opportunities; to recommend the necessary policy changes required to influence Nigerian Content growth and capacity development; and to develop programmes and projects for the execution of identified interventions.
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