- The chief executive and accounting officer of NITDA
- Responsible for the execution of Nigerian ICT policy and the day to day administration of the affairs of NITDA.
- Provide a sound, responsive and efficient regulatory environment.
- To develop fiscal mechanisms that quickly respond to the fast-changing needs of an IT based economy.
- Use favourable fiscal policies to ensure that Nigerian IT products and services are globally competitive.
- Encourage foreign and domestic private sectors investment to build information infrastructure and related assets and develop subsequent downmarket activities.
- Ensure that Information Technology resources are readily available to promote efficient national development.
- Guarantee that Nigeria benefits maximally and contributes meaningfully by providing the global solutions to the challenges of the Information Age.
- Empower Nigerians to participate in software and IT development.
- Encourage local production and manufacture of IT components in a competitive manner.
- Improve accessibility to public administration for all citizens, bringing transparency to government processes
- Establish and develop IT infrastructure and maximize its use nationwide. Provide leadership direction and vision to guide IT infrastructure development.
- Use IT as the major driving force to re-engineer and rapidly transform governance to interface with the needs of its citizenry by establishing transparent “Government Wide Information System (GWIS)” at national, state and local government levels.
- Promote IT Research and Development for sustainability, leapfrogging and competitiveness.
- Use IT to re-engineer agriculture for the purposes of maximizing food production, improving food self-sufficiency and security, increasing output for industrial raw material utilization, providing employment, economic growth and minimising environmental abuse and degradation.
- Develop digital master plans for digital government services.
- Create an enabling environment that empowers stakeholders in trade and commerce with the underlying infrastructure to improve productivity and positively position the nation for global competition.
