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The telecommunications and Information Services sector in Nigeria has in the first quarter 2023, delivered a handsome N2.508 Trillion in terms of financial value contribution to the nation’s gross domestic product, GDP, representing 14.13%.

Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, showed that the sector recorded a 4.3% increase from its performance in the last quarter of 2022 when it recorded 13.55%. When compared year-on-year basis, the growth showed positive progression from 12.94% in the first quarter of 2022 , to the 2023 figure of 14.13, which is an approximate growth by 9.19%.

  The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof.

The number of identified areas of clusters across Nigeria without access to the telecommunications services has been reduced by 53.1 per cent as at the end of 2022.

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, disclosed this at a recent telecoms industry stakeholders forum in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.

The Association of Public Procurement Practitioners of Nigeria (APPON) has conferred the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, with the “Excellent Service Delivery and Accountability Award”.

The award was in recognition of Danbatta’s outstanding performance and contribution to the canons of the public procurement profession in Nigeria by ensuring that the NCC complies strictly with the provisions of the Public Procurement Act (PPA) 2007.

More than 2000 Nigerian youths from the Six Geopolitical Zones of the country have been trained in digital job acquisition in an intervention programme promoted by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) while the ongoing edition of the programme has 600 youths being trained.