Africa: 430,000 African IT Professionals to Leave for U.S. in 2015 - NITDA
About 430,000 African IT professionals with
more than half of them from Nigeria will leave the continent for the
United States of America in 2015, the National Information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA) has said.
NITDA's Director General Professor Cleopas Angaye, who disclosed this
in a lecture presented at the just concluded Computer Professional
Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN)'s IT Professional Assembly in
Abuja, said Nigerians and other Africans are being sought after by
companies in the US to replace Indians who are now leaving the country
in droves.
Prof Angaye said about half a million IT professionals are expected
to leave US finally in 2015 and the country is now looking into Africa
for replacement for the jobs that would be left.
Nigeria with abundant IT professionals and with about 20 per cent of
African population would definitely provide more than half of the
figure, the NITDA DG told the gathering of IT professionals.
But he said efforts must be made towards building more expertise and
manpower in the sector in the country to forestall shortage of
professionals.
He said it has been recognised that IT is one of the most effective
weapons to fight poverty in Nigeria and less emphasis should therefore
be put on crude oil.
He called on the private sector to collaborate with the government to
proactively invest in IT to create more jobs for unemployed Nigerians.
Earlier in his address, the President/Chairman of council of CPN
Ibrahim Tizhe said no sector of the Nigerian economy could do without
IT.
He said nations are committing enormous resources into IT development
in order to improve the quality of life of their citizenry.
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