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  • CORRUPT PRACTICES: World Bank sanctions SoftTech IT Solutions and Services Ltd, Isah Kantigi

    CORRUPT PRACTICES: World Bank sanctions SoftTech IT Solutions and Services Ltd, Isah Kantigi

    An information technology and services company, SoftTech IT Solutions and Services Ltd, and its Managing Director, Mr Isah Kantigi, have been sanctioned by the World Bank for alleged corrupt practices.

     

    The firm, which was involved in the National Social Safety Nets Project, was sanctioned for 50 months while the managing director was sanctioned for 60 months.

     

    This was contained in a statement titled ‘World Bank Group debars SoftTech IT Solutions and Services Ltd. and its managing director’, which was published on the bank’s website on Wednesday.

     

    The statement read in part, “The World Bank Group today announced the 50-month debarment of SoftTech IT Solutions and Services Ltd., an information technology solutions company based in Nigeria, and the 60-month debarment of its managing director, in connection with corrupt practices as part of the National Social Safety Nets Project in Nigeria.

     

    “The debarments make SoftTech and Mr Isah Kantigi, a Nigerian national, ineligible to participate in projects and operations financed by the World Bank Group.”

  • NIIT announces 18th National Scholarship

    …vows IT scholarship’ll be affordable to all Nigerians

    The Nigerian Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) has announced application is open for its 18th National Scholarship.

    The Information Technology (IT) institute says it is subsidizing its fees to make sure that IT skills acquisition is affordable to all Nigerians.

    Mrs. Onyedikachi Aruma, Head, Kaduna Centre of NIIT reveals this while speaking with newsmen in Kaduna on Monday.

    Mrs. Aruma said the scholarship examination has been scheduled to hold July 15, and that it is open to all interested persons in its Kaduna and Abuja centres.

    Speaking on the modalities guiding the scholarship, Mrs Aruma said, “The scheme is performance based,” adding, “What you score in the examination would determine the discount you get as fees”.

    “What this means is that, the higher your scores the higher your discount,” she further stated.

    Aruma said candidates had the liberty to choose from different IT programmes such as Oracle, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Java and Web Development, among others.

    She said that the training would last from four months to two years, depending on the progranme, noting that registration for the scholarship examination was ongoing, but would closed on July 13.

    “Registrations forms are available in our Kaduna and Abuja centres for free or you can register online at www.niit.com/nigeria.

    “Our main goal is to give back to our host community, particularly as ICT is currently the driver of global economy,” she explained.

    NIIT Ltd. is an Indian Multinational company that offers learning management and training delivery solutions to corporations, institutions and individuals.

    It claims that since its establishment in Nigeria in 1999 with offices in Abuja and Kaduna, it has trained more than 16,000 students annually and shaped the career of 160,000 students in the past 16 years.