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| Mr. Lanre Ajayi giving his acceptance speech@5th NIRA, AGM |
Nigerian Council member to the Generic Names Supporting
Organization (GNSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), Mr. Lanre Ajayi has been elected into the Executive Board of the
Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA).
DigitalSENSE
Business News gathered that Mr. Ajayi was the immediate past president of
the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) and current president of the Association of
Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON).
A former vice president, Internet Service Providers
Association of Nigeria (ISPAN), and holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in
Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos.
Responding, Mr. Ajayi appreciated the support received so
far from members and executive board of NiRA towards his appointment into the
GNSO till date and promised to bring about global perspective to domain name
management into NIRA, as the association grow its market share and
acceptability across the globe.
Ajayi’s election came through after the fifth Annual General
Meeting, proceeded by the elections into some five vacant positions in the
Executive Board of NIRA, which also saw to election of the Messrs Abimbola
Olayinka, Sikiru Shehu, Biyi Oladipo and Akinbo Cornerstone Adeolu.
While Mr. Ajayi, who is the managing director of PiNet
Informatics joins the board, alongside Abimbola Olayinka, who was the former
treasurer, Messrs Sikiru Shehu and Biyi Oladipo emerged as the pioneer
Financial Secretary and new Treasurer respectively. While Mr. Akinbo Adeolu joined
from Board of Trustee for a two-year tenure.
On the other hand, Mrs. Mary Uduma and Messrs Sunday
Folayan, Muhammed Rudman, Remmy Nweke and Tope Fashedemi retained their
positions as the president, vice president and executive board members of NIRA
for another term of two years.
This is coming as all subsisting members of the Board of
Trustees were returned for the second term in addition to adoption of the
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) into the BoT to
represent the interest of the government of the federation, more so as the
supervising agency.DigitalSENSE Business News
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