FEATURE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE ICT SECTOR IN NIGERIA AND ITS ROLE IN INFLUENCING ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
By Ali Afegbua In a chat with Mr Felix Adebayo of First Adsunfix Limited, an ICT expert in Digital Communication Systems (System Design and Implementation, Security and Renewable Energy Systems) he highlighted the problem areas in Nigeria’s navigation towards ICT growth and the challenges in influencing economic prosperity. We touched on many areas and the problems are numerous. Without listing all the challenges Nigeria faces, this write-up looks at the critical issues and how to turn things around for an Industrialised Nigeria, by looking way ahead of our current realities. Mr Adebayo began our chat by commenting on the current state of the countries ICT sector; ‘Looking at the ICT developments recorded in Nigeria over the years, there have been several growth spurts in the number of small businesses in that space which is good for Nigeria’s economic growth. The main challenge is the government’s lack of awareness of how revolutionary the Information Communication Technolog