Director-general, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isah Pantami said the agency has saved over N13 billion for the federal government through its information technology project clearance for ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
Speaking in an interview with LEADERSHIP on the sidelines on the ITU Telecom World 2018 which held last week in Durban, South Africa, he said MDAs are mandated to come to NITDA for their IT project clearance. “Firstly, what we usually do is to ask if there is value for money in the project itself.
“We make reference to the previous budget because some MDAs would continually repeat the same project every year. In IT, when you do a project, the next year you are to sustain and maintain it, but we don’t have that maintenance culture.
“The same project would be repeated every year, you see N1 billion, N1.5 billion, N2 billion, the amount is being incremented every year for the same project and that is the…
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