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The attention of the Nigerian Communications Commission has been drawn to media reports to the effect that 95.7million subscriber registrations are invalid. Understandably, this needs further clarification for the benefit of subscribers and other critical stakeholders who rely on subscriber registration data.
The Commission therefore wishes to clarify that the process of scrubbing registration data submitted by operators is an ongoing one and that so far, over 60million records have been “scrubbed” successfully. “Scrubbing” in telecoms parlance refers to the screening process of verifying biometric and personal information submitted by all operators in respect of each of their subscribers.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to use the provisions of the Constitution bordering on national security and interests to prosecute anyone involve in fraudulently activating SIM cards. "Section 148 of the Nigerian Communications Act (NCA) 2003 mandated the Commission to be guided by national interests and security in the execution of its mandate".
Efosa Idehen, NCC's Director of Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement stated this in a paper titled: "Dangers of Dealing on Fraudulently Activated SIM Cards", presented today in Port Harcourt at a regional sensitization workshop focused on issues affecting Subscriber registration.
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Strategic collaboration and partnership, a central component of the 8-Point Agenda of the Management of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), got a fillip recently when officials of Ibadan Zonal Office of the Commission paid a courtesy visit on the Governor of Ondo State, His Excellency, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN.
Yomi Arowosafe, Controller of NCC Ibadan Zonal Office, who led the NCC team to the Governor's office in Akure gave the Governor a detailed narration on various activities and initiatives of the Commission and solicited the collaboration of the state government particularly on NCC's plan to expand broadband infrastructure and improve the quality of telecoms services in Nigeria.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) yesterday, met and agreed to harmonise conflictive areas in the Code of Corporate Governance for the Telecom Industry and the National Code of Corporate Governance.
The NCC and FRCN also agreed to institute processes to achieve seamless implementation of the two codes with respect to enforcement, monitoring, stakeholder enlightenment, and unforeseen exigencies that may arise in the course of time.
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Professor Nebath Tanglang, representing the Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Abdallah Adamu, this afternoon led a team from NOUN on a courtesy visit to the Management of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to solicit the partnership and collaboration of NCC in the implementation of a World Bank grant to the African Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhance Learning.
Tanglang said the Centre competed for and won the World Bank grant which is meant for the procurement of tools, conduct of research focused on new ICT tools, and to find solutions to the challenges of academic component of technology deployment for learning.