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The Federal Ministry of Communication Technology is proud to present 5th General Meeting of The National Council on Communication Technology. Details are given below.
THEME: Harnessing ICT as the Main Tool for Driving the Economic Recovery & Growth Plan (ERGP)
VENUE: Bello Kofar'Bai Hall, Katsina State Secretariat, Along Kano Road, Katsina State.
DATE: November 20 -24, 2017
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The Executive Commissioner Stakeholder Management of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Mr. Sunday Dare last night received Democracy Heroes Award for his decades of consistency in promoting democracy in Nigeria.
Organisers of the event, FACE OF DEMOCRACY NIGERIA (FDN), now in its fifth year said Mr. Dare has acted in manners worthy of emulation by Nigerian youths. Therefore, they urged young people to step out to participate in the democratic process by contesting elections in order to represent the people of Nigeria conscientiously.
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Her Majesty, Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, this morning paid a scheduled visit to the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as part of her global itinerary for advocacy on financial inclusiveness to enhance individual and national development. She commended NCC’s robust regulation of telecommunication services in Nigeria, its collaboration on national financial inclusion strategy, and promised to support Nigeria to achieve greater safe, sound and sustainable financial inclusion.
The royal lady, who visited the Commission in her capacity as the Special Advocate of the United Nations’ Secretary General for Inclusive Finance for Development, was received with NCC’s renowned warmth and enthusiasm by the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Professor Umar Danbatta, who led other Management staff that include the Executive Commissioner Stakeholder Management, Mr. Sunday Dare.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission has instituted processes that will lead to a review of the licensing framework for telecommunication spectrum administration in Nigeria. Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, stated this yesterday as he presented the 23rd Inaugural Lecture at Bayero University, Kano.
Danbatta said the vision of the Commission and the importance of spectrum as a critical but limited national resource demands that it has to be managed judiciously to ensure the needs if all stakeholders are accommodated.
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Following the dynamics in both the sophistication of production and tempo of usage of digital products and the attendant susceptibility of consumers to fraud in electronic transactions, the Nigerian Communications Commission organised a workshop at the Digital Bridge Institute, Kano Campus to address the challenges of electronic fraud such as hacking and associated intrusions in e-commerce and other interactions in the cyberspace.
The team of resource persons from NCC led by Ubale Maska, the Executive Commissioner Technical Services, and comprising Alhassan Haru, Director New Media and Information Security; and Bako Wakil, Deputy Director Technical Services among others, highlighted the costs of electronic fraud to the nation's economy and individuals; and discussed in their presentations steps taken by NCC in collaboration with other relevant agencies and stakeholders to check activities of fraudsters and other threats in order to reduce vulnerabilities in the cyber space. They also discussed the global nature of the phenomenon as well as its dynamics which makes it very challenging to tackle the occurrences with a single solution.