Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Tuesday declared open the Digital Nigeria International Conference and Exhibition 2025 in Abuja.
While declaring the event open, the VP said the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has succeeded in putting an end to the regimes of volatility and unpredictability that once characterized Nigeria’s economy.
Shettima said that global economic uncertainties, “shocks, shifting alliances, and the rapid displacement of traditional jobs by emerging technologies” have compelled the administration to act daringly.
The Vice President noted that the ongoing reforms undertaken by the Tinubu administration are already stabilizing the economy, just as they have inspired investor confidence and attracted commendation from independent observers.
Citing Fitch’s upgrade of Nigeria’s sovereign rating to B with a stable outlook, and Moody’s lifting of the nation’s issuer rating to B3 with a stable outlook as instances of the global acclaim the country is receiving, VP Shettima said, “The world is taking note of the steady course the nation is maintaining.
“What this administration has achieved is to end the regimes of volatility and unpredictability that once defined our economy. The phase before us now is to ensure that these macroeconomic gains trickle down to the people, from the kiosks of our neighborhood traders to the boardrooms of our multinational corporations,” he said.
“We did what we have done because we can no longer apply 20th-century solutions to 21st-century problems,” he declared.
“We need a digital ecosystem that works as seamlessly in Lagos as it does in Abuja, in Port Harcourt, in Kano, in Gusau, and across every corner of our nation,” he added.
The Vice President pointed out that Nigeria cannot keep lamenting its “absence at the table in the previous Industrial Revolutions” when the current digital wave has offered the nation “a redemptive opportunity to define its own terms in the next chapter of global progress.”
“On policy, we are creating an enabling environment that encourages innovation.”
Earlier, the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, said enabling digital policies being implemented by the Tinubu administration are on course to boost the country’s digital infrastructure.
He invited relevant stakeholders to use the platform to deepen collaboration so that Nigeria can stand as a global model for technology adoption for shared prosperity.
For his part, the Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, applauded the Vice President for his support, commitment, and for always championing the cause of Nigerian youths, noting that such inspirational leadership is deeply rooted in President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
He assured that the collective ambition of the Federal Government, which is to engage the youth and provide platforms that empower them to solve the nation’s challenges, will continue to be pursued to fruition.
In the same vein, the CEO of the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), Dr. Vincent Olatunji, acknowledged the increasing adoption of technology, particularly the use of multiple devices by the global population, highlighting the huge socio-economic potential of the global digital economy.
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