The NCC demonstrated this by organising the maiden prototype and research exposition aimed at showcasing no fewer than 10 prototypes, arising of from its sponsored Telecommunications-Based Research Innovation Projects in the Nigerian universities.
Browsing: Prof. Adeolu Akande
Akande made the call at the third edition of NCC’s 2021 “Talk to The Regulator” Forum in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Friday.
Akande, also the Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, said thus in a statement he personally signed.
Akande, who attended the event with an entourage of two former Commissioners and six former local government chairmen, also used the occasion to reveal that the NCC is constructing a N500 million ICT Park in Ibadan this year as part of efforts to digitalise the Nigerian economy.
The extension was as a result of the virtual meeting chaired by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, and attended by the Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Adeolu Akande; Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Dambatta; and Director-General/CEO, National Identity Management Commission, Engr. Aliyu Azeez.
Asking Makinde, who has been holidaying in Houston, Texas, United States of America to return to the country immediately, Akande, who is the Director of the Centre for Presidential Studies, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, asked all indigenes, irrespective of their political leanings, to identify with the governor at this critical time.
The advice was contained in a New Year message he personally signed and made available to newsmen on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The first anecdote narrated by Akande, Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, was one he was told by a senator whose team had visited Somalia as parliamentary delegation to the war-torn country, some years ago. Somalia, you will recall, is a mono-ethnic nation which bore all indices of nationhood.
Prof. Akande said the initiatives of President Buhari will put the country in a very strong footing to earn enormous revenue from the ICT sector, provide jobs for millions of youths and create wealth for Nigerians.
There has been serious infighting in the once united and formidable Oyo APC as Unity Forum is currently up in arms against the loyalists of the state Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, over the soul of the party since the commencement of the ongoing congresses
Akande, who was recently inaugurated as Chairman of the board of the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency, said if that is adopted, herdsmen crisis will stop being a major source of inter-ethnic tension.
Akande, who spoke on the occasion of the 2017 Teachers Day, said Nigeria should learn from the experience of the developed countries of the world where the renumeration of teachers tower above many other professions.
Akande, who is a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, blamed the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks on the successful inculcation of local population of the Boko Haram ideology by the embattled sect.
Akande, who is a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, explained that the reliance on federally allocated revenue over the years is the bane of the current economic crisis afflicting the state occasioned by the inability to pay workers salaries among other obligations of government.
Akande spoke on a television programme over the weekend
The alarm was raised at the weekend by Prof. Adeolu Akande of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, while delivering a public lecture on: The role of education in national development