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Strengthening The DBI To Attain Its Original Mandate

Nigeria’s foremost digital capacity building institution, the Digital Bridge Institute(DBI), is in desperate need of help from its critical stakeholders to achieve the original mandate envisioned for it by its founding fathers. The DBI was launched in the wake of the phenomenal worldwide growth of the Telecommunications (Telecoms) and Information...
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The 3.5GHz Spectrum Auction Must Succeed As Its Predecessors

5G inscription on the background of the globe. Concept Mobile communication network for high speed wireless Internet connection, fifth generation technology, new technologies Bolstered by its success of superintending the mock version Friday, independent telecommunications referee, the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC), is set to re-enact its track record at auctioning critical...
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NCC Should Release The Report Of 5G Trial By MTN Nigeria Courtesy of MTN Nigeria, Nigeria scored a historic first by becoming the first country in West Africa to try out 5G equipment and applications. The telco held a live demonstration in Abuja, north central, Nigeria, while its 5G demonstration...
Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta
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Danbatta’s Reappointment: A Good Omen For The ICT Industry

This statement: “La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.”  Or  transliterated into English language: “Victory Has A Hundred Fathers And Defeat Is An Orphan,” originally coined  in 1942 by the Italian diplomat, and son-in-law of Mussolini, Count Caleazzo Ciano (1903-44), has a lot to say about the...
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What Pantami Must Do Before ICT Convergence Comes

Nigeria’s current Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Ali Isa Ibrahim Pantami Benjamin Disreali, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December 21, 1804 –April 19, 1881) a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who once said : “A...
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Suspend That 5G Technology Probe Now!

The Upper Legislative Chamber of Nigeria’s National Assembly, the Senate, May 5, 2020, called for the suspension of 5G deployment in the country until after a thorough probe to ascertain the technology’s suitability or otherwise  to human health has been carried out. Prof. Umar Danbatta, Chairman NCC Dr. Gbenga Adebayo,...
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Ensuring The Independence Of The Nigerian Communications Commission

An independent telecommunications sector regulator is critical to the growth and development of the telecommunications industry, and, by extension, the digital economy as the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy appears to be focused on and is apparently ferociously pursuing. Telecommunications sector regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC), evidently is ahead...
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