Dr bashir gwandu biography of william
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Gwandu resumes office as NASENI substantive EVC/CEO
The new and substantive Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Dr. Bashir Gwandu, has officially resumed office at the NASENI Headquarters, Abuja, on Monday May 22.
Gwandu took over from the Officer Overseeing the activities of the Agency, Mrs. Nonyem Onyechi, following his appointment as the new helmsman of the Agency bygd President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as the Chairman Governing board of NASENI. This was disclosed yesterday in a statement bygd the Director, Information & Protocol NASENI, Mr. Olusegun Ayeoyenikan.
Gwandu’s appointment, conveyed in a letter dated 19th May, from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Ref; no SGF.51/S.4/T/93 addressed to Gwandu followed the expiration of 10-year tenure of five years each bygd the former EVC/CEO of the agency, Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna in April 2023 and the
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During the Innovation Africa Digital Summit in Ethiopia, IT News Africa had the opportunity to talk to Dr Bashir Gwandu, Nigeria’s Communications Commission’s Executive Commissioner. Gwandu discussed the future of mobile devices in Nigeria, content creation and the country’s recent efforts to free up spectrum.
Dr Bashir Gwandu, Nigeria’s Communications Commission’s Executive Commissioner (image: Charlie Fripp)
* Please elaborate on the need to free up spectrum in Nigeria?
What we realized is that we don’t have fiber on the ground; and that we don’t even have as much copper as we need. So we asked ourselves what infrastructure will allow for communication – and the only solution that we can have is wireless- and the most important resource to allow that communication is spectrum.
We have a growing requirement for data with a lot of content coming out of Nigeria. Going into the future, we will need a way of transmitting this content to the population and indeed other parts of
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Muhammadu Buhari
Nigerian head of state, 1983–85 and 2015–2023
Muhammadu BuhariGCFR (Hausa pronunciationⓘ; born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician and retired Nigerian army major general who served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023. He was the military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, succeeding Shehu Shagari following the 1983 Nigerian coup d'état.
Buhari ran for president of Nigeria on the platform and support of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2003 and 2007, and on the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) platform in 2011.[2] In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of[3] the All Progressives Congress party for the 2015 general election.[4] Buhari won the election, defeating incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.[5] This was the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost a re-election bid. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In Februa