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Umar Garba Danbatta

NCC Endless Opportunity
ICT

Chronicling NCC’s performance since 2015 to date (2)

There had been strategic improvements since the takeover of affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) by Kano State-born Electrical/Electronics professor, Alhaji Umar Garba Danbatta, following his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2015. We will be looking at…

NCC Retirees
ICT

Can NCC recover as 12 senior staff commence terminal leave today?

Effective from today, April 1, 2019, 12 strategic management staff will begin terminal leave to end their service at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Ceremony for their send forth process was rounded off weekend by the Management of the Commission….

Road cutting for FOC
ICT

Will NCC’s subsidy to InfraCos foot discouraging RoW bills by states?

The weekend cheerful news from the telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) hinting that it has concluded process leading to the disbursement of subsidies to the six licensed Infrastructure Companies (InfraCos) has been received by stakeholders with mixed feelings….

mtn-Nigeria
ICT

Endless wait for MTN at Nigerian Stock Exchange traced to veiled reasons, but…

  Whereas the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Umar Garba Danbatta, has made it clear no amount of official delays will be accepted if MTN fails to list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on or…

dANBATTA
ICT

Ganduje announces scholarship for 100 indigenes at DBI, Emir, other hail NCC

Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has announced scholarship to 100 youths in the State to bridge the gap in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Making the announcement at the maiden matriculation ceremony of the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI),…

NCC head office, Abuja
ICT

NCC partners FIRS, sets up Committee to deepen transparency, returns from AOL

As part of new drive to grow synergy capable of driving high level of transparency attainable via technology in tax management for Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) and the returns from Annual Operating Levy (AOL) for the Nigerian Communications Commission…

NCC head office, Abuja
ICT

NCC set to recalibrate variables used in measuring operators’ KPIs to ease service delivery

More revelations are still coming from the recently launched ‘Year of the Consumer’ by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Latest include the readiness of the Commission to review the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of operators to ensure telephony services quality…

ICT

BPSR gives NCC Platinum rating in institutional work processes

Very strong business organizational structure, policies and practices that facilitate effective and efficient service delivery were some of the rare characteristics, the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) considered before naming the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) tops in institutional work…

NCC Danbatta
ICT

Sending “STOP” to 2442 don’t end unsolicited sms, many subscribers insist

Crisis of trust is gradually building up between telecoms subscribers’ and the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). This is stemming from the fact that contrary to the claims of the Commission that mere sending of ‘STOP’ to a coded…