Omobola Olubusola Johnson (born 28 June 1963) is a Nigerian technocrat and formal Minister of Communication Technology in the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan .She was
educated at the International School Ibadan and the University of Manchester (BEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and King's College London (MSc, Digital Electronics). She has a PhD from Cranfield
University. Prior to her Ministerial
appointment she was country managing
director for Accenture, Nigeria. She had worked with Accenture since 1985 when it was Anderson Consulting.
Johnson is the pioneer head of the country's communication technology ministry, which was created as part of the transformation agenda of the Nigerian government.
Omobola has earned several public
commendation since taking up her first
government assignment as minister in 2011.
This is following the numerous achievements of her ministry notably among which is the launch of the NigComSat-IR Satellite. This has helped to complement the country's efforts at fibre connectivity and the provision
of greater bandwidth. The ministry under her watch has also deployed more than 700 personal computers to secondary schools in
the first phase of School Access Programme (SAP) while about 193 tertiary institutions in the country now have internet access in the Tertiary Institution Access Programme ( TIAP)
and 146 communities have access to
Community Communication Centers deployed around the country.
Other achievements of the ministry under Omobola include:
A collaboration with the Central Bank of
Nigeria to drive digital and financial inclusion using the Post Office infrastructure;
10Gbs Fibre optic Network to connect Nigerian Universities to wider research and education universe, in partnership with the NUC, World Bank and TetFund;
Facilitating e-Government drive with over 86,000 email addresses deployed for Government use on the .gov.ng
domain names, and 250 websites hosted on .gov.ng platform as well as 382 MDAs connected in Abuja Abkhaz and other parts of the country;
Creating the enabling environment
for local development of iPad-equivalent
tablets; Signing of an MoU with Nokia to
establish a lab in Nigeria to support the
domestic mobile software industry;
Inauguration of the National Council on
Information Communication Technology with state / FCT Commissioner of ICT as members.
On 30 May 2013, Omobola presented the Nigerian National Broadband Plan for 2013 to 2018 to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Following a minor cabinet reshuffle In
September 2013 by President Goodluck
Jonathan, she was given an extra task of
supervising the operations of the Federal
Ministry of Science and Technology, a
responsibility she is still carrying out.
