There
are indications that Nigeria will soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with Chad in a bid to deepen ICT penetration, strengthen and expand
potentials of ICT in both countries, DigitalSENSE Business News authoritatively
reports.
This
is coming as the Secretary General of the International Telecommunications
Union, ITU, Dr. Hamadou Toure, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for
his vision and leadership which has kept Nigerian in the forefront of ICT
development in Africa and his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan for being ITU’s
ambassador and patron of the international agency’s child online protection.
Dr.
Toure who made these known at an international conference on Information
Communication and Technology, recently in Chad, disclosed that Nigeria has
remained at the top of the group of countries with the highest ICT development
in Africa.
“For
five years running, Nigeria remains the number one country in ICT development
in the continent.
To
have won it five times in a row means you must have done something right. This
is due to the leadership and the vision that you have in your country, and I
would like to thank you on behalf of the ITU.
In the past few years she has been the patron
of our child online protection initiative, protecting children in the cyber
space, which is the greatest challenge we face as we enter the cyber world", he said.
Giving
insight to the deal by both countries, President Jonathan pointed out that
“With
over 10 terabytes of undersea cable landing on our shores we are, through the
bi-lateral Nigeria /Niger Joint Commission extending that capacity to Niger and
we are in the process of entering into an MoU with the Chadian Government to
interconnect the optic fibre networks of Chad and Nigeria.
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