GITEX 2022: Pantami inaugurates Exhibition Pavilion as Four Nigerian Start-Ups Battle for Final Honours

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has inaugurated the exhibition pavilion of Nigeria at the ‘2022 Gulf Information Technology Exhibition’ (GITEX).

This year’s edition of GITEX 2022, an annual enterprise technology and global digital transformation event, which began today at the Dubai World Trade Centre, the United Arab Emirates, UAE, will end on Friday, October 14, 2022.

Prof. Pantami, while inaugurating the pavilion, announced that four Nigerian tech innovators and start-ups have already booked their spots in the final of the GITEX tech-invention competition.

Prof. Pantami, said: “I am confident that the four Nigerian start-ups and innovators will surely give their foreign counterparts a run for their money. And will cart away the prizes at stake, during the grand finale of the exhibition”.

The Director Generals of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA; Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC; National Identity Management Commission, NIMC; and Galaxy Backbone, together with some Nigerian private sector ICT entrepreneurs, joined the Minister in officially opening the pavilion for delegates, and foreign guests, at the event.

Prof. Pantami, revealed that the federal government, in the last three years launched several programmes, policies and projects that have boosted the Nigerian digital economy sub-sector.

According to the minister “We have recorded significant milestones and great accomplishments in our bid to drive Nigeria’s economy digitally. And our amazing successes are verifiable”.