Mohammed Rudman, the Chief Executive Officer of Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has been elected President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA). The election took place at the Associations’ 11th AGM) that held on 30th April 2019.
At the AGM Tobi Obaniyi was also elected as Vice President, Lawrence Olawale-Roberts and Sola Akinsanya as Directors. They join the incumbents: Ikechukwu Nnamani as Treasurer, Adebiyi Oladipo as Finance Secretary and Eugene Ohu, Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr, Mrs Nkem Nweke and Murtala Abdullahi as Directors.
At the handover ceremony, past president Folayan, assured Rudman of his undivided loyalty and support for him and his team, as he”pilots the affairs of our dear Association in your tenure. May God give you the grace, wisdom, courage and all other essentials to be successful, much more than your predecessors”.
Folayan was president for four years, and as a Board member from the inception of the organization. Rudman was vice president of the association before his election as president.
At the acceptance speech Rudman to make NIRA the leading registry in Africa by making the .ng the preferred domain in Nigeria. He is also looking forward to a 100 per cent increase in new domain registration annually for the next four years.
According to him, “my strategic objectives are…to open up the two and one character domain name and also allow geonames registration except on .gov.ng and also liaise with law enforcement agencies and various Nigerian CERTs for quick resolution of current issues related to .ng domain.
Rudman is also poised to strengthen existing registrars and also attract more companies to NIRA registrars and to develop new markets, at least one registrars or reseller in each state of the federation.
Rudman is the pioneer Chief Executive Officer, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), Nigeria’s first and only neutral IXP. A veteran IT professional with over 18 years extensive experience in network design, implementation, optimization and operations. Before joining IXPN, Rudman had worked with several organizations in technical and managerial capacity including Galaxy IT & T Limited, where he facilitated the deployment of rural telephony project (personal handy phone system), Wireless multipoint and point-to-point for broadband access, Earth Stations for Wide Area Network (WAN) using remote VSAT sites across many Nigerian states and West Africa countries.
