Tag: Dr. Isa Ali-Pantam

Pantami emerges 2020 Nigerian ‘Muslim Personality of the Year’

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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim, also known as Sheikh Pantami, has emerged the winner of the 2020 ‘Nigerian Muslim Personality of the Year‘ award. At the ceremony, organised by Nigeria’s Islamic newspaper, ‘Muslim News’, announced Pantami as the #MNAwards winner for combining two great features of leading the “digitisation of the Nigerian economy” and “providing the right religious education for his teeming followers across the globe”. According to a statement issued on Friday by the newspaper’s publisher, who is also the #MNAwards organiser, Rasheed Abubakar, Pantami’s quest for entrenching the…

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Pantami commissions Nigeria’s first AI, Robotics centre

Aminu Imam

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali-Pantami, yesterday inaugurated the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics. It was reported that the centre is Nigeria’s first centre for emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Cyber-security, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Big Data Analytics and Cloud-computing, among others. The Centre seeks to position the country for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in line with the eight pillars of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy, NDEPS, of the Federal Government. Located at Wuye…

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