Minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami has expressed optimism that Nigeria’s digital economy will soon be ranked among the best in the world.
Represented by Muhammad Abubakar, managing director of Galaxy Backbone Plc, stated this on Tuesday at the second national conference of the School of Science and Technology (SOST) at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.
The minister said the theme of the conference, ‘The Role of Science, Technology and Innovations in a Digital Economy: Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, was timely in relation to the objective of digital economy.
NAN quoted him as saying: “It is quite important because our nation Nigeria is at a point where it is evolving into one of the nations that will in the next couple of years be regarded as one of the leading digital economies in the world,”
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“This is the desire of the ministry and President Muhammadu Buhari that all agencies under the ministry of communications and digital economy, private sector and stakeholder companies are working towards Nigeria’s digital economy.
“Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are seen as the main enablers of realising some, if not all, of SDGs such as ending hunger through agrictech, no poverty through ICT, good health, among others.”
