By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The national target to achieve 70 per cent broadband penetration by 2025 is receiving renewed attention from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), which promises 50 per cent before the end of 2023. This promise was one of the highlights of the...
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is taken a bold initiative aimed at the development of home-grown innovative solutions and local content development in the Telecommunications Sector while fostering economic growth and social advancement in Nigeria. The Commission believes that the development of such home-grown innovative solutions and local...
The Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, says telecoms investment inflow grew from $38 billion to $77 billion by the second quarter of 2023. Prof. Danbatta, who spoke in Kano on Saturday at a media parley, revealed that the sector had contributed 16 per cent...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies (MINILS) has decorated the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, with the award of Fellowship of the Nigeria Institute of Labour (NIL) under the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. ...
Nigeria is widely known to be not only Africa’s most populous country but also the largest economy on the Continent and it is expected that strong economic growth in Nigeria would generate substantial prospects for growth and spillovers for the whole West African region. Despite the prospect of accelerated...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) says Nigerians fall victims of electronic fraud because they expose themselves to the fraudsters by releasing their sensitive information to them. The Commission’s Director of Consumer Affairs, Alhaji Umar Alkassim,stated this in an interview with journalists during a sensitization...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The telecommunications sector’s contribution to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has increased significantly to 16 per cent in the second quarter of 2023, according to the data reported by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) based on the computation by the Nigeria...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has commended the Swedish Government and Ericsson for their commitment and consistency in a strategic partnership with NCC on capacity building which has strengthened...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Nigeria is set to play host to 54 African nations and other continental Internet governance stakeholder blocs at the 2023 Africa Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF 2023) in Abuja from 18th to 21 September, 2023. This year’s event, being the 12th...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says the Emergency Communications Centres (ECC) being implemented by the commission is currently providing employment opportunities for many Nigerian youths and professionals. The Commission also noted that the Centres were offering informal business activities to the citizens...
Executive Vice-chairman (EVC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, says Nigeria is rated eleventh in terms of internet penetration and seventh in terms of mobile phone usage globally. Danbatta made the disclosure at the opening ceremony of the Emerging Technology Forum for the Telecommunications Industry on...
By OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to showcase achievements so far recorded in the promotion of indigenous content in the telecommunications sector at the second edition of the Nigerian Telecommunications Indigenous Content Expo (NTICE 2023), which holds in Lagos from...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has warned traders and other stakeholders about the negative consequences of selling and purchasing phones and telecommunications gadgets that are not type approved by the Commission. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the certification of telecom devices used...
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has commended the author of the book on ‘Cyber Politics’, Dr. Omoniyi Ibietan, for its uncommon industry, literary efforts, and activism in trying to make the society better through shared knowledge. The public presentation...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta and the Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Dr. Dasuki Arabi have penned a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly work towards accelerating the digitisation reform process in government. ...
By OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja – Former Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Chief Okeifufe Frank Nweke Jnr, has reminisced the nostalgic moment he escaped being a victim of a plane crash that occured in 2004. Chief Nweke Jrn disclosed this on Tuesday during the public presentation of...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disowned a fraudulent LinkedIn Account impersonating the person, and office of the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta. This is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by The Commission’s Director, Public Affairs,...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has warned cellphone sellers not to buy or sell non-type approved devices. The commission gave the warning on Thursday during a sensitisation programme at the GSM Village Abuja. NCC’s Deputy Director of Consumer Affairs Bureau (CAB), Dr Emilia Nwokolo, said there was...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), says it is not responsible for the regulation of the content of social media networks in the country. Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, stated this on Tuesday at the Public presentation of a new book,...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, together with the former Minister of Information and Culture, Chief Frank Nweke, among others, unveiled the much anticipated book authored by Dr. Omoniyi P. Ibietan PhD, the head of NCC’s Media Relations....