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Tuesday, August 24, 2004.
Science and Tech minister lauds
NITTA 2004
By Emma Okonji
IT. Telecom Reporter, Lagos
Minister
of Science and Technology, Prof Turner Isoun has joined others ministers and
corporate organisations to boost activities for the third Nigerian Information
Technology and Telecom Awards
(NITTA 2004). Besides, the minister declared his ministry’s support for
the initiative and affirmed that he would personally attend the event. Isoun made the declaration when
he received Mr. Mkpe Abang, editor-in-chief of IT & Telecom Digest magazine, organisers of the event,
in his office in Abuja.
Abang was intimated of the support when he presented
the minister with a letter inviting him as special guest.
Isoun
emerged as ‘‘Man of the Year’’ at NITTA 2003 for
spearheading and seeing to the launch of Nigeria’s first satellite, Nigeria
Sat1, amid other accomplishments.
Recently, the Communications Minister, Chief
Cornelius Adebayo commended IT & Telecom Digest, Nigeria’s foremost ICT
magazine for the initiative in instituting the awards.