With the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has addressed its concerns (ASUU).
Remember how ASUU's leadership accused NITDA of "peddling misinformation" about the University Transparency and Accountability Solution's status? (UTAS).
Mrs. Hadiza Umar, NITDA's Head of Corporate Affairs and External Relations, issued a statement over the weekend titled: 'NITDA's Engagement with ASUU on UTAS: Setting the Records Straight.'
As such, NITDA said, over the years, it had issued series of regulatory instruments including the Software Testing and Quality Assurance Framework and Guideline, released in 2016. It stressed that this instrument, currently being reviewed, provides guidelines for the design, development and testing of software projects in Nigeria. It also pointed out that Section 10 of the Guidelines for Nigerian Content Development in ICT, 2019 provided detailed guidelines and expectations for Indigenous Software Development and Software Enabled Products and Services.
NITDA said: “In line with its mandate, the agency has been registering indigenous software solutions. Part of the registration process requires that solutions are subjected to tests, in line with the requirements of the Software Testing and Quality Assurance Framework and Guideline and the Guidelines for Nigerian Content Development in ICT.
“It is common knowledge that ASUU has been engaging the Federal Government on a number of issues including payment of promotion arrears, earned academic allowance, funding for revitalisation of public universities, and adoption of UTAS as payment platform for universities.
“On October 14, 2020, NITDA was invited to participate in an interactive session between ASUU, Federal Government and the legislature. The session, held at the Conference Hall of Accountant General of the Federation’s office, was to avail ASUU opportunity to demonstrate the UTAS platform.”
