Professor Umar Danbatta, the Government Vice Chairman and Chief Government Officer (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC), has emphasised the dedication of the Fee to repeatedly drive initiatives that speed up deployment of digital infrastructure, with a view to improve financial transformation of Nigeria.
Danbatta reiterated the dedication of the Fee whereas talking on the NCC Day, on the recently-concluded forty third Kaduna Worldwide Commerce Truthful, organised by the Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Trade, Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA).
Talking on the overarching theme of the occasion “Strategising Nigerian Economic system for International Competitiveness,” within the context of the regulatory actions of the Fee, the EVC, who was represented by a Senior Supervisor on the Fee, Attah Ogbadu, stated the NCC has been on the coronary heart of offering the digital impetus for reworking the companies and sustaining socio-economic actions in Nigeria.
Danbatta acknowledged that because of the COVID-19-induced financial downturn and continued volatility, many international locations are exploring insurance policies to stimulate progress and create new jobs. “Info Communications Know-how (ICT) is likely one of the fastest-growing industries as a result of it triggers the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs and due to this fact an enabler of innovation and socio-economic improvement”, Danbatta acknowledged.
The EVC additionally asserted that whereas COVID-19 pandemic got here with its attendant challenges, the Fee has continued to work assiduously with numerous stakeholders to see how extra companies can embrace digital platforms for delivering their providers to the customers.
He defined that apart accelerating digital infrastructure, NCC can be listening to guaranteeing a level-playing floor for operators to advertise funding and ghe supply of modern providers to particular person customers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and large enterprise house owners by guaranteeing enhanced shopper high quality of expertise.
“So, as a regulator, we additionally guarantee we consistently inform you, the customers, on how you can be protected to forestall instances of on-line fraud and in any other case guarantee you don’t fall victims to cybercrimes whereas utilizing the web, legitimately”, Danbatta acknowledged to underscore NCC’s dedication to shopper safety.
Additionally talking on the NCC Day discussion board, The President of KADCCIMA, Suleiman Aliyu, who was represented by an official of the Chamber, Farouk Sulaiman, recommended NCC for its common and impactful attendance and participation on the commerce honest. He additionally positioned on report NCC’s dedication to bettering community protection and consumer-centric initiatives, that are more and more impacting job creation, the emergence of latest providers and industries, workforce transformation, and enterprise innovation.
On the theme of the occasion, Aliyu stated the theme was chosen to enhance the efforts of the federal government in selling financial progress. Aliyu asserted that the crucial affect of the communications sector on the nation’s financial output is clear in its contribution to the Fross Home Product (GDP).
In response to Aliyu, “the competitiveness of Nigeria would depend upon our potential to leverage new applied sciences in mild of the speedy progress of the variety of energetic cell subscriptions, web subscribers, and broadband penetration, indices of telecom sector’s mark as one of many fastest-growing sectors within the nation.”
In the meantime, majority of telecom customers, who attended the commerce honest, additionally visited the NCC Day occasion and the NCC nook of the Exhibition Group of the KADCCIMA.
There, officers of NCC’s Client Affairs Bureau educated the enthusiastic customers on the varied consumer-centric initiatives instituted by the Fee to tell, educate and defend customers.
The telecom customers additionally seized the chance of the platform offered by NCC on the Truthful, to make complaints and to resolve their service-related challenges on the NCC Stand of the Exhibition, which additionally housed representatives of telecoms operators who responded to the issues of the customers.