He said: “It is our collective responsibility to respect the Nigeria internet service point in order to coordinate the activities of internet users in the country. Many illegal online radio and television stations that have sprung up today is due to non-utilization of this point. Most of these online radio and television stations are being abused, used to canvass for agitations and causing disunity in the country, he added.”

Also in the official release made available by NITDA’s Head, Corporate Affairs & External Relations, Mrs. Hadiza Umar, the agency’s boss called for service improvement on the part of the service providers. Pantami urged Galaxy Backbone to prevail on other service providers to adopt various policies of NITDA in the discharge of their services.

He said, “recently we got report from some Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) complaining of poor quality of service and as the regulator of IT in the country, I personally issued a press release on this and we are hoping that service would soon improve,”

“Charity they say begins at home. We are using this visit to also urge you to build on your achievements. We are proud of your recent achievement on the attainment of the ISO 2000 Certification. It is our collective success and I believe we can still do better because there is always room for improvement.

While advocating for the local hosting of data, Dr. Pantami said the recent event that made Microsoft establish a data centre in South Africa is regrettable adding that NITDA is working assiduously to forestall future occurrence of such an action.

“We are seriously putting in place a strong data protection policy that would put a stop to such actions. It will also aim at motivating service providers to host data locally. The issue of data sovereignty is also critical; we are talking with some ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to bring back their data to Nigeria. Some of them have come to our office and we gave them the time frame to achieve this because it is secure, reliable and available for us to host our data locally,” he said.

read more on: http://itedgenews.ng/2017/07/07/pantami-decries-non-utilization-nigerian-internet-service-point/

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