[Aftld-discuss] [Excom] NITDA, Nira Sign Pact On Nigeria Web ..

[Victor Ciza]

Great news! Congratulations to NiRA and NITDA.

Victor.
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Subject: [Excom] NITDA, Nira Sign Pact On Nigeria Web ..


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> NEWS
> 17 January 2008
> Posted to the web 17 January 2008
> Lagos
> National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigerian 
> Internet Re-gistration
> Association (NiRA), yesterday in Abuja, signed a memorandum of 
> understanding MoU for management of
> the nation's web domain.
>
> The address of the country's web domain is .ng. The MOU gave NiRA the sole 
> authority to administer
> the Nigerian Country Code Top Level Domain (cctld).ng.
>
>
> Professor Cleopas Angaye, NITDA Director General, said at theceremony, 
> that "with this development,
> all government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) should take 
> measure to establish their
> presence on the web."MDA's should ensure that any existing web sites are 
> migrated to the country's
> top level .ng domain. Section 17(4) of the Information Technology Act 
> makes it an offence for anyone
> to disregard such guidelines issued under the act," he said, adding that 
> NiRA would facilitate the
> tracking of "419" mails emanating from the country.
>
> Mr Ndukwe Kalu, NiRA President, said the Association would work to ensure 
> that the .ng domain
> competed favourably with other domains globally and appealed to Nigerians 
> both at home and in the
> Diaspora, whom he claimed owned over a million domains, to migrate to the 
> .ng domain.
>
> "The .ng domain will present a platform for an internet revolution on the 
> African continent," he
> said.Kalu said the network would have multiple servers hosted in serval 
> points, both in and outside
> the country to ensureoptimal operation.
>
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