Nigeria ICT growth rate, second only to China- Angaye

Prof. Angaye, Director General, NITDA

The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Prof. Cleopas Angaye, has said that the growth rate of the nation's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector is second, only to China.

According to the NITDA boss, the sector is growing at a 30 per cent rate and is expected to boost the outsourcing marketing to between $1.65 trillion, about N256 trillion and $1.8 trillion, about N283 trillion from its present $500 billion, about N78.6 trillion.

Speaking recently at the software competition conference organised by Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) in Calabar, Prof. Angaye attributed the success of the industry to the efforts of the agency in partnership with the private sector.

Prof. Angaye also said that the National Software Policy Committee (NSPC) set up by the agency is to develop a National Software Policy (NSP) which will serve as a blueprint to provide a roadmap to make the nation a competitive country in software engineering and development.

”When the policy is eventually launched it will provide the much needed impetus for the rapid development of the software industry in Nigeria,“ he said.

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