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THE Lead Consulting Strategist and Group Executive Editor of ITREALMS Media group, Remmy Nweke, has been elected to the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association, NIRA, alongside four others.
NIRA, founded on March 23, 2005, oversees Nigeria’s country code top-level domain, .ng, just as registration of domain names are handled by NIRA certified registrars, under its Registry–Registrar–Registrant model in operating and managing the top-level domain.
The other four are the former pioneer technical contact person on .NG, Ibukun Odusote; former Financial Secretary of NIRA, Biyi Oladipo; former NIRA president, Mary Uduma and Executive Director Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, Yunusa Zakari Ya’u.
This is coming as NIRA also at the 15th Annual General Meeting, AGM, cum election held in Lagos on Friday at The Zone, elected Adesola Akinsanya and Murtala Abdullahi as new President and Vice President respectively. They took over from Mohammed Rudman and Toba Obaniyi in that order.
Other members elected into NIRA Executive Board of Directors, EBoD, at the meeting included the Editor of TechEconomy, Peter Oluka, Ebenezer Dare of Hostlag Limited, and Seun Kehinde of QServers Networks Limited.
Recall that Remmy Nweke aka “dotNG Evangelist” is the Group Executive Editor of multiple award-winning ITREALMS Media group and Lead Consulting Strategist at DigitalSENSE Africa. He is currently the Publicity Secretary, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, GOCOP, and chairman, Awareness and Sensitisation Committee, Nigerian Content Consultative Forum on Information and Communications Technologies, NCCF-ICT, Sectoral Working Group.
Remarkable member and former Executive Director at NIRA plus the immediate past Vice President, African Civil Society on the Information Society, ACSIS, Nweke also known in the industry as .NG Evangelist, pioneered the NIRA eNewsletter as the chairman, Publicity and served on various committees, including the Establishment and Finance, Accreditation as well as promoted the institutionalizing of NIRA House and pioneered the NIRA Media College during his term on the board, among other initiatives, with collaboration of EBoD.
At DigitalSENSE Africa, a project of ITREALMS Media group and an ICANN-certified At-Large Structure (ALS), Nweke leads a team that hosts several industry stakeholders since 2009 to the impressive Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum series on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), IPv6 Roundtable, ITREALMS’ E-Waste Dialogue and Digital Rights Series of DSA.
Remmy Nweke holds MA in Contemporary Diplomacy from University of Malta with background in new media journalism with over 25 years’ experience in Nigeria and global ICT industry, crowned with several professional awards, including the prestigious Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) African Journalist of the Year, Africa Siemens Profile Awards, African Information Society Awards to name but a few.
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