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The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, disclosed this over the weekend in Kano, Kano State.

Its Chairman, Prof. Adeolu Akande, made this known at the inauguration of Village Square Dialogue in Ibadan, Oyo State.

The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, said this at the 90th Edition of Telecom Consumer Parliament.

This was made known on Thursday in a statement signed by the NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, Prof. Umar Danbatta.

The move is aimed at regulating the online platforms’ mode of operations to checkmate the eruption of any sort of crisis in the nation’s ICT sector.

The inaugural FT list which was compiled with Statista, a research company, was released after months of study, public calls, intense database research, and direct interaction with over 900 public companies in the continent. 75 firms were ranked among millions of African-based businesses based on their revenue compound annual growth (CAGR) between 2017 and 2020.

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The commission made the request during the 6th edition of the Telecom Consumer Town Hall on Radio (TCTHR), a radio-based interactive consumer outreach programme of the Commission, broadcast under the auspices of NCC Digital Signature, the commission’s flagship radio programme.

The association made this known in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Gbenga Adebayo, and Head of Operations, Gbolahan Awonuga.

Delivering the guest lecture during the recently held 10th matriculation ceremony of McPherson University, Ogun State, Obaro said “Today needs thinkers so that we can be relevant tomorrow. It has been said that knowledge in most fields doubles about every five years. You must therefore have your eyes and imagination one step ahead of today, or your skills will be a mismatch for the new world of tomorrow.”

A statement signed Tuesday, by the NCC Director, Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, said the bolstering of the capacity of emergency response was coming on the heels of Commission’s recent activation of the Taraba State ECC, thus bringing the total number of operational ECCs across the country to 25.

The confirmation of the nominee on Tuesday followed the consideration of a report by the Senate Committee on Communications.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, made the presentation to the NCC.

MTN and Mafab Communications were allocated slots for the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum dedicated to the deployment of the technology after emerging winners conducted by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in Abuja last year after 11 rounds of bidding that lasted eight hours.

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, stated this on Tuesday.

A statement signed by Director, Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde clarified that TangleBot deploys more or less similar tactics as the recently-announced notorious FlutBot SMS Android malware that targets mobile devices, adding that TangleBot equally gains control of the device but in far more invasive manner than the FlutBot malware.

In a press statement by its Director, Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde CSIRT, in its first-ever security advisories less than three months after its creation, confirmed that it has solely identified the two cyber-attacks targeting the consumers and therefore proffering solutions that can help telecom consumers from falling victims to the two cyber vulnerabilities.

The combined awards, issued on the heels of a public lecture, titled, Public Sector Financing: The Oil Revenue, Challenges, Solutions and Prospects, eloquently expressed the significance of telecom sector’s contribution to Nigeria’s economy. Noteworthy is telecoms’ 12.45 per cent contribution to the nation’s GDP in 2020, which was central and pivotal in taking the nation out of recession.

The request was contained in a letter dated January 10, 2022 and read on the floor by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary. 

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) made this known in a statement released by its Director, Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde.