The President, Medallion Data Centres Limited, Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, has been named the chairman of the twin event of the 2022 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and public presentation of the latest industry book: Sagacity of a digital revolution; authored by Remmy Nweke, on June 9, 2022, being put together by ITREALMS Media group in Lagos.

Disclosing this, the Lead Consulting Strategist at DigitalSENSE Africa and Group Executive Editor of ITREALMS Media group, Mr. Remmy Nweke, said Engr. Nnamani has been confirmed to chair the dual events slated for the prestigious Welcome Centre Hotels, International Airport Road, Lagos.

According to Nweke, the 2022 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development is an annual digital rights forum by ITREALMS with this year’s theme being: ‘5G: Enthroning Internet Governance for Digital Economy’ while the public presentation of the book: Sagacity of a digital revolution, comes as a sideline event meant to enrich the knowledge base of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) industry, a book authored by Remmy Nweke, a multiple-award winning journalist.

Engr. Nnamani who also is the President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Nweke said, is known as very active in promoting forward-looking industry policies for the growth of the telecom industry across Africa working with both regulators, as well as operators, to achieve this goal.

Nnamani recently served as an Executive Board member of Nigerian Internet Registration Association, the organization responsible for managing Nigeria's Country Code Top Level Domain (.ngTLD).

In 2020, he was inducted into the Nigeria@60 ICT Hall of Fame by TechTV and named the 2020 ICT Personality of the Year by Communications Week, as well as awarded the ICT Entrepreneur of the Decade by Nigerian NewsDirect. He was named the 2019 NANS Man of the Year, 2019 Beacon of ICT Hall of Fame Award Recipient, 2019 Nigeria Telecom Industry CEO of the Year, and 2019 ICT Industry Entrepreneur of the Year.

Additionally, he was named the 2018 ICT Entrepreneur of the Year at the Beacon of ICT Award and the 2018 Africa Digital Award winner.

Engr. Nnamani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee State University, Nashville, United States of America (USA).

Meanwhile the chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, is warming up as the reviewer of the latest book in the industry, entitled ‘Sagacity of a digital revolution’ whereas the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, would give the keynote at NDSF 2022 on the main theme.