Nigeria Eyes Higher-value Digital Jobs As NITDA Promotes AI-enabled Services

Nigeria is seeking to reposition its digital services sector from conventional business-process outsourcing to higher-value, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled services as the country intensifies efforts to attract global investment and create technology-driven employment.
The director-general/chief executive officer of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, stated this during the “Hire from Nigeria” session organised by the Nigeria Economic and Trade Advancement Programme (NATEP) on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA81).
Abdullahi, who participated in the strategic session alongside the Minister of Indus...