NCC heads ministerial broadband implementation steering committee
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been saddled with the responsibility of leading the team that will ensure effective monitoring and steering of the overall implementation of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) 2020-2025. This followed the designation of NCC’s Executive…
NCC to inaugurate Strategic Management Plan (SMP) 2020-2024 tomorrow
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will, on Tuesday 23rd of June, 2020, unveil a five- year (2020-2024) Strategic Management Plan (SMP). The launch is coming in line with the objective of creating a seamless strategy to augment its effective management…
Lack of deadline for new NBP 2020-2025 Committee worrisome
Fresh loophole of no delivery deadline has been observed in the Tuesday, December 17, 2019 inauguration of the new National Broadband Plan (NBP) (2020-2025) development committee set up by the Federal Government. Industry experts had expected setting of NBP document…
FG unveils committee for new 5-year National Broadband Plan
Just as industry watchers have decried the delay of the Federal Government in coming up with new National Broadband Plan (NBP) following the expiration of former one since 2018, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, while…
Can CBN truly achieve 80% financial inclusion by 2020 from current 39%?
Unless the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is going to adopt the yet-to-believe Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) latest data that Nigeria has all of a sudden achieved 30.9 per cent broadband penetration to claim by 2020 that it has achieved…
NCC silent on why Infracos dumped special facility it arranged with CBN
The Executive Vice Chairman of the National Communication Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has for the very first time at a stakeholders’ meeting on broadband in Kano, revealed that Nigeria will not meet the target of 30% broadband penetration…
Digital Economy: FG putting the cart before the horse at home, in Silicon Valley?
Whereas the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah in Silicon Valley, US weekend, said Nigerian digital economy is projected to generate $88billion and create up to three million jobs in the next three years, industry have raised…
Don’t wait till existing broadband policy expires before formulating new one—Nduwke
Former executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and national coordinator of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), Engineer Ernest Ndukwe has advised the federal government that it was not necessary to wait till the existing National Broadband…
NFMC with NCC, NBC must find level playing ground on access to 700Mhz—Teniola
Since MTN Nigeria bought the supposedly broadcast frequency; 700Mhz, from the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which was said to be lying fallow when payment of N34b was made, there has been some levels of disquiet in the industry on the…
Until NCC, through FG reviews RoW in states, Infracos can’t do much—ATCON boss
The President of Association of telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Engineer Olusola Teniola, has opened up on the key challenge frustrating the effective delivery of broadband services across the country by all the licenced Infrastructure Companies (Infracos). Infracos are companies…
