IT & Telecom Digest Announces NITTA 2004
This year's edition of Nigeria's premiere awards for the information and communications technology industry, the Nigerian Information Technology and Telecom Awards (NITTA), will hold at the Grand Ballroom of the Le Meridien Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, on November 5, 2004. It will be NITTA's third edition.
Organised by Nigeria's award-winning frontline ICT magazine, IT & TELECOM Digest, this year's awards ceremony, according to the organisers, will attract the cream of the ICT world, including representatives of the International Telecommunication Union and the Economic Commission for Africa.
Editor-in-Chief of IT & TELECOM Digest, Mr. Mkpe Abang, said in a statement that as standard practice with NITTA, competitive categories would be advertised for corporate bodies and individuals to make entries or nomination as the case may be. Some of the categories for which individuals and corporate bodies will enter or be nominated for the competitive segment include: Best Telephone Company, Best ISP, Best indigenous software, IT/Telecom personality of the year, Best Computer Company, Best prepaid phone card company, Best ICT Reporter (print), Best ICT Reporter (electronic) and Best Mobile Phone Company of the year.
The Awards were instituted to recognise and honour those who have contributed to the growth and continuous dynamism in the Nigerians ICT industry. And as an on-going annual exercise, the Awards will engender competition by rewarding future looking people and companies whose products or services continue to contribute to the growth of the sector through hard work. NITTA also seeks to promote healthy competition, quality of service delivery and competitive prices among operators in the ICT industry.
Last year's NITTA awards ceremony, chaired by former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Victor Odozi, attracted the cream of the ICT industry in Nigeria as well as many high fliers in the society. They include the Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel who was the father of the day, two federal ministers, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, of communications, who was special guest and Prof. Turner Isoun, of science and technology, who bagged the "Man of the Year" award as well as Nigeria's Mr. Telecom, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, who won Man of the Year award at NITTA 2002.
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