Onyekwere lauds IXPN, NIRA collaboration on LICF

L-R: Vice President, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Engr. Sunday Folayan,

Representative of DG NITDA, Mr. Aristotle Onuma, Special Assistant to the Minister of

Communication  and Technology, Engr. Seyi  Onabanjo, Representative of Chairman, Internet

Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN),  Engr. Sam Adeleke and Representative of NCC,

 Dr. Sylvanus Eliliohia, during the Local Internet Content Forum  (LICF)  on Sustaining LIC,

 the way forward for Nigeria in Lagos.

Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), Deacon Chima Onyekwere, has commended the collaboration between IXPN and Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA).

Speaking at the openings session of the two-day forum on Local Internet Content (LICF) jointly hosted by the two organizations, Onyekwere, who was represented by another member of IXPN Board, Chief Sam Adeleke, former president of the Internet Service Providers Association of Nigeria (ISPAN) told DigitalSENSE Business News at the MUSON Centre, venue of the forum in Onikan-Lagos, that both organizations have not lost their objectives.

 “… So it was not surprising that this forum on Local Internet Content is happening today,” he asserted.

According to him,

The sole objective of Local Internet Content Forum, he highlighted, was to create a mind shift for the local content producers from hosting outside the shores of Nigeria to localizing home grown contents.

He also expressed the hope that LICF would achieve this through correcting some misguided opinions about the reliability, security, and stability of .ng domains by NIRA and readiness of IXPN to assist in keeping the local internet traffic local within the country.

According to him, presently, IXPN has built and still committed in the process of building more regional sites in all the geo-political regions of the country, with connection to a Point of Presence (POP) at Saka Tinubu, while the Abuja and Port Harcourt POPs have also been commissioned.

He pointed out that IXPN Network Infrastructure consists of the Network Operation Centre cum Switch Room (NOC/Switch) which is the hub of operations with secured access facility with fire suppression system and fully redundant power system, whereas operating a 24/7 support services.

Remmyy Nweke/DigitalSENSE Business News

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