President Muhammadu Buhari has approved new appointments in 13 Federal Government agencies.
The appointments according to a statement by the Director (Press) in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Bolaji Adebiyi, include Mr. Joseph Ari as Director-General of Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) as Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
According to TechCabal, Dr Pantami is a professor of Computer & Information Systems.
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Dr. Pantami, who is currently a professor of Computer & Information Systems at the Islamic University of Madina, will be taking over from Dr. Vincent Olatunji, who resumed as the Acting DG earlier this year in January. The previous DG, Mr. Peter Jack was suspended in January over allegations of illegal employments amongst other wrong doings.