The Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, met with Justin Reynolds, Director for Tech Policy at the US Department of State. They discussed enhancing Nigeria-US collaboration on critical tech issues, emphasising responsible Artificial Intelligence and cyber governance for a

On April 25th, amidst the atmosphere of International Girls in ICT Day, we marked a significant milestone aligned with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda.

In collaboration with Illimi Children Fund, NITDA concluded a Digital Literacy Training Programme, where 100

Warning: Brute-Force Attacks Targeting VPN and SSH Services on the Rise ⚠️⚠️

Cisco Talos has raised concerns over a rapid increase in brute-force attacks targeting various devices, including Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, web application authentication interfaces, and

The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, attended the National Stakeholders Workshop on Economic and Financial Inclusion held at the Banquet Hall, State House Abuja, to deliberate on modalities in tackling poverty and

The Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, visited the National Institute of Security Studies Abuja to strengthen the existing partnership between the two organisations and delivered a lecture to 92 participants from various security agencies undertaking a training programme

The Technical Working Group (TWG) roundtable discussion on 'Collaboration Towards Digitalisation and Entrepreneurial Evolution” organised by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), is currently underway in Gombe, covering both Bauchi and Gombe states.

The

The Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, received the Country Director for Social Good Fund, Joledo Oyewole, and his team on a courtesy visit at the Agency's Corporate Headquarters Abuja.

The team's visit was centred on collaboration to support tech innovators for job

As a high velocity organisation, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) held a two-day 'Working Backwards Engagement' workshop with Amazon Web Service (Amazon Web Services) at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja

Guided by pillar 8 of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led

I want to thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the support and encouragement to chart this course. His vision and desire for a truly inclusive digital economy has been a significant motivation for us.

Thank you also to all the partners, agencies and facilitators who contributed

ANNOUNCEMENT 4 - NCAIR Relaunch

Finally, we are also pleased to announce the relaunch of National Center for AI and Robotics, Nigeria. with improved capacity with the support of @CISCO.

NCAIR - The National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics - a first of its kind in Africa, special purpose

ANNOUNCEMENT 3 - Nigerian Multilingual Large Language Model

The launch of Nigeria’s first Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) through a partnership between Awarri, DataDotOrg, NITDA Nigeria and National Center for AI and Robotics, Nigeria..

The LLM will be trained on 5 low resource languages and

ANNOUNCEMENT 2 - Nigeria’s Computing Infrastructure Pilot

Our second announcement was the partnership between 21st Century Technologies, Galaxy Backbone and National Center for AI and Robotics, Nigeria. to accelerate the development of Artificial Intelligence projects of national interest.

21st Century

After an exciting week of co-creation with over 120 ArtificiaI Intelligence experts, we not only have an initial draft of our National AI Strategy, we also announced some significant developments and partnerships that will lead us towards accelerating the development of AI in

ANNOUNCEMENT 1 - The launch of the Nigeria AI Collective

The AI Collective is a community of practice collaborating towards accelerating our collective prosperity through an inclusive AI Ecosystem. The collective, which is sponsored by Luminate will be hosted by

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The Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi received representatives from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) led by Mr Josh Woodard who were at the Agency to discuss partnership in the area of food security in Nigeria and Africa at large through the use

To further strengthen Nigeria's digital economy in line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and NIMC has announced a collaboration on National Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Digital Public