By NAN
The Voice of Nigeria (VON) has seek the renewal and deepening of its partnership with Galaxy Backbone Ltd to promote President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, fight fake news and protects its cyber space.
The Director-General of VON, Malam Jibrin Baba-Ndace stated this when he and his management team paid a courtesy visit to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Prof. Ibrahim Adeyanju on Friday in Abuja.
Ndace stressed that for VON to succeed, it required the total support of Galaxy Backbone Ltd.
He appreciated the organisation for the it’s support and relationship with VON, adding that VON has the most robust digital platform to pride in.
“I am determined to expand the scope of the partnership between us and deepen it. VON is the only platform in Aftrica that has the mandate to shape positive narratives about Nigeria, Nigerians, Africa and Africans.
“And by the wisdom of our founding father’s, we do that in eight languages; four indigenous and four foreign languages.
“While the indigenous language include Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fufulde, the foreign langauge are English, French, Arabic and Swahili. We are hoping to add Madari and Portuguese.
“This is because of the wonderful operation that the Nigerian Navy is doing in the gulf of Ginuea; fighting piracy and other crimes on our maritime domain, which we need to amplify.
“We also need to amplify the good works that Galaxy Backbone Ltd is doing. We are in the era of democratisation of Information and fake news.
“We need your support in AI, and also to fight fake news by empowering our team to have the capacity of fact checking information, content, and protection of our cyber space,:” Ndace said.
He also pleaded for consideration, stressing that VON is not a revenue generating institution, “ours is public service. We are not allow to take commercial, we only benefit from partnership”.
Responding, Adeyanju said irrespective of the status of the relationship between the two organisations, there is need to reset it.
He added that Galaxy Backbone pride itself as the digital backbone of the nation.
“We are talking about 5,000 kilometer Fiber covering close to 28 states in Nigeria. We manage two data centres; tier three and four; one in Abuja and another one in Kano.
“The one in Kano is one of the tier four data centre in the whole of Africa.
“We pride ourself as state of the act security operation centre,which we use to defend the cyber space of the government.
“We partner with both public and private institutions. We also have centres where we monitor our networks in almost all states of the federation.
“We do a lot of training on digital literacy, ICT and others. We are also into data protection, ISO certification and many others.
“We need to collaborate more to service the citizens, help President Bola Tinubu deliver on his mandate of priority areas and for citizens to enjoy the dividends of democracy, ” Adeyanju said.Â
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA