The Nigerian Communications Fee has tasked its coaching associate, the Lagos Enterprise College of Pan-Atlantic College to evaluate its current coaching programs to satisfy the fee’s human capital growth wants.
The fee stated in a press release on Friday that overhauling current programs shall be a pre-requisite for reviewing their current Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The Govt Vice Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who was represented by the Govt Commissioner, Stakeholder Administration, Adeleke Adewolu, stated the NCC engages in workers coaching to construct managerial and technical abilities required to handle the telecoms regulatory atmosphere in Nigeria.
The EVC spoke to the LBS delegation led by the College’s Director, Govt Schooling, Victor Banji.
Adewolu stated, “I thank the LBS for its collaboration with NCC over time within the space of human capital growth. Nonetheless, we anticipate that LBS will work with NCC to see how we are able to collectively overhaul the prevailing programs and produce new course to NCC’s consideration which we’d, in flip, topic to our coaching want evaluation.
“This may occasionally lead to a evaluate of our current Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the direction of making our relationship a lot stronger and extra mutually helpful.”
The fee listed the areas of curiosity as programs on efficiency appraisal administration, coverage formulation and execution, danger administration, technical report writing, telecoms-related coaching, tariff and competitors administration.
The NCC stated, “Different areas of focus in assembly academic wants of the sector, embrace indigenous digital abilities growth, sponsoring of hackathon, provision of analysis grants to the academia, endowment of professorial chairs in universities, and the acceleration of digital infrastructure deployment throughout the nation to spice up digital literacy and abilities for Nigeria’s socio-economic growth.”
Banji earlier in his speech acknowledged the position of the fee within the growth of the telecom sector.
He stated, “Because the Fee liable for creating an enabling atmosphere for telecom operators and allied stakeholders within the trade, in addition to guaranteeing the availability of qualitative and environment friendly telecommunications providers all through the nation, NCC has earned a status as a foremost Telecom regulatory company in Africa.
“Our conviction at LBS is that telecommunications penetration is likely one of the vital developments required to rework poverty into prosperity. Our thesis is straightforward: the entry to and use of cellular telephony contributes to the well being of the inhabitants and effectivity of the economic system.
“It’s equally a lever for poverty discount as contained in Objective One of many Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs).”