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Former acting Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) , Dr. Ashiru Sani Daura, is dead. A family source told IT Edge News early hours of today.
Daura was the Director, Software and Outsourcing department at the IT agency before his appointment as an acting director general by the federal government in 2013.
He took over from Prof. Cleopas Angaye who had served the maximum term of eight years in office as prescribed by NITDA ACT 2007. Daura was later replaced by a substantive director general with the appointment of Mr. Peter Jack in 2014 to lead the agency.
Held in high esteem by many as an extremely humble academic, researcher and technocrat, Daura bagged a BSc in Electrical Computer Engineering from King Abdul Azeez University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1984; Masters in Computer Vocational Education M.Ed. from the Colorado State University (CSU) in 1990; and a PhD, Digital Signal Processing, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom in 1998.
Before joining the NITDA, he worked at the Nigeria Defence Academy now Nigeria Defence Academy University as the Head of Department, Electrical and Electronics and later; Dean, Faculty of Engineering.
Daura started his journey in NITDA as the Director of Zonal Coordination in 2005. By 2008, he worked at the agency as Director, Technical Services – the department was reworked to become Infrastructure and Capacity Development (ICD) department and in 2011 he was moved to lead the Software and Outsourcing department.
“My greatest wish is to see a country well developed and managed in terms of deployment of IT,” he once told IT Edge News.
