The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission to implement a directive on the reduction of the cost of data in the country.

The NCC was equally ordered to enforce an earlier directive to compel service providers to put a stop to illegal deduction of subscribers’ data within five days. The commission was given five days to act on the directives.

Pantami had given the directives in October, after receiving a progress report on the implementation of Short-Term Performance Targets set for the NCC.The minister had noted that Nigerians were paying so much for data without enjoying value for money spent.

The minister restated the directives during the inauguration of a new Executive Commissioner of the NCC, Adeleke Adewolu, in Abuja on Tuesday.

He explained that he was not satisfied with explanations made by the NCC after he issued the directives and ordered the Commission to take immediate action on the matter.The minister said the NCC should act on the directives within five working days and report back to him with feedback.

According to him, Nigerians are complaining over illegal deductions of their data, a situation which he said also applies to him.

Pantami said, “I commented last time on the issue of data deduction, this is one of the issues that is worrying me badly to death.

“I was not fully convinced with the explanation by the NCC; please go back and review that issue.“It is very important and I want to get your feedback in the next five working days with the decision on it because the complaints from Nigerians are beyond what I can handle.

“As it is today, people are complaining and it happens to me. I recharge my phone (my data line) and I believe what I use is not up to 20 per cent of what I purchase.“This is an issue that is very importants

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission to implement a directive on the reduction of the cost of data in the country.

The NCC was equally ordered to enforce an earlier directive to compel service providers to put a stop to illegal deduction of subscribers’ data within five days. The commission was given five days to act on the directives.

Pantami had given the directives in October, after receiving a progress report on the implementation of Short-Term Performance Targets set for the NCC.


The minister had noted that Nigerians were paying so much for data without enjoying value for money spent.

The minister restated the directives during the inauguration of a new Executive Commissioner of the NCC, Adeleke Adewolu, in Abuja on Tuesday.

He explained that he was not satisfied with explanations made by the NCC after he issued the directives and ordered the Commission to take immediate action on the matter.


The minister said the NCC should act on the directives within five working days and report back to him with feedback.

According to him, Nigerians are complaining over illegal deductions of their data, a situation which he said also applies to him.

Pantami said, “I commented last time on the issue of data deduction, this is one of the issues that is worrying me badly to death.

“I was not fully convinced with the explanation by the NCC; please go back and review that issue.



“It is very important and I want to get your feedback in the next five working days with the decision on it because the complaints from Nigerians are beyond what I can handle.

“As it is today, people are complaining and it happens to me. I recharge my phone (my data line) and I believe what I use is not up to 20 per cent of what I purchase

Also stressing the need for a reduction in the cost of data, he said, “Also, I directed the NCC to reduce the price of data as well.

“It is very important because other African countries that are not as big as we are have a lesser price of data.”

Pantami insisted that the NCC’s major responsibility was to protect the consumers and not the service providers.

“As a regulator, your main agenda is to protect the customers. Customers are supposed to be kings and most of these customers are Nigerians.“Our top priority should be the interest of customers, who happened to be Nigerians,” he stressed.

Further directing the board and the management of the NCC to “immediately sit down and address some pending issues that I have been talking about,” Pantami said he would face a panel on Saturday to defend the ministry’s achievements so far.

He added that he would face another panel to be chaired by the President, on December 1, where he would present a report on the activities of the ministry and its parastatals.Pantami also directed the NCC to expand the penetration of 3G and 4G networks in the country.

https://punchng.com/telecom-firms-get-five-days-to-stop-illegal-deductions/amp/

i hope so,cus glo don chop my money tire cus of bank code

Very good one from the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Slow and steady we are getting things right at last in this nation.

But the enemies of the country will always be blind and deaf to this good news as usual.
All they are here to read is bad and negative news.
Their problems!

God bless Nigeria.

Good step

Please hope it includes data deductions too

Positive news this morning.

Fssss

Will they ever stop? Never. Criminals milking Nigerians.

Please oh tell those idiotic airtel people look back look Front your credit has gone

NCC is conniving with the service providers to cheat Nigerians.
One annoying one is calling a network especially Airtel numbers and the person cannot be reached, you will be asked to drop a voice message after the beep, you quickly cut the call and realised that while they are still asking if you want a voice message they are billing you at the same time.

Time for aitel and MTN to pay back all they ve stolen. Those two mentioned networks are the real definition of stealing.

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Very good one from the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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Yes please stop them

Abeg, make you change your laptop charger, its old. I need to eat, so please change your laptop charger na


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pickatyou:
Please hope it includes data deductions too

REREAD the write up again!

kenny160:
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission to implement a directive on the reduction of the cost of data in the country.

The NCC was equally ordered to enforce an earlier directive to compel service providers to put a stop to illegal deduction of subscribers’ data within five days. The commission was given five days to act on the directives.

Pantami had given the directives in October, after receiving a progress report on the implementation of Short-Term Performance Targets set for the NCC.The minister had noted that Nigerians were paying so much for data without enjoying value for money spent.

The minister restated the directives during the inauguration of a new Executive Commissioner of the NCC, Adeleke Adewolu, in Abuja on Tuesday.

He explained that he was not satisfied with explanations made by the NCC after he issued the directives and ordered the Commission to take immediate action on the matter.The minister said the NCC should act on the directives within five working days and report back to him with feedback.

According to him, Nigerians are complaining over illegal deductions of their data, a situation which he said also applies to him.

Pantami said, “I commented last time on the issue of data deduction, this is one of the issues that is worrying me badly to death.

“I was not fully convinced with the explanation by the NCC; please go back and review that issue.“It is very important and I want to get your feedback in the next five working days with the decision on it because the complaints from Nigerians are beyond what I can handle.

“As it is today, people are complaining and it happens to me. I recharge my phone (my data line) and I believe what I use is not up to 20 per cent of what I purchase.“This is an issue that is very importants

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission to implement a directive on the reduction of the cost of data in the country.

The NCC was equally ordered to enforce an earlier directive to compel service providers to put a stop to illegal deduction of subscribers’ data within five days. The commission was given five days to act on the directives.

Pantami had given the directives in October, after receiving a progress report on the implementation of Short-Term Performance Targets set for the NCC.


The minister had noted that Nigerians were paying so much for data without enjoying value for money spent.

The minister restated the directives during the inauguration of a new Executive Commissioner of the NCC, Adeleke Adewolu, in Abuja on Tuesday.

He explained that he was not satisfied with explanations made by the NCC after he issued the directives and ordered the Commission to take immediate action on the matter.


The minister said the NCC should act on the directives within five working days and report back to him with feedback.

According to him, Nigerians are complaining over illegal deductions of their data, a situation which he said also applies to him.

Pantami said, “I commented last time on the issue of data deduction, this is one of the issues that is worrying me badly to death.

“I was not fully convinced with the explanation by the NCC; please go back and review that issue.



“It is very important and I want to get your feedback in the next five working days with the decision on it because the complaints from Nigerians are beyond what I can handle.

“As it is today, people are complaining and it happens to me. I recharge my phone (my data line) and I believe what I use is not up to 20 per cent of what I purchase

Also stressing the need for a reduction in the cost of data, he said, “Also, I directed the NCC to reduce the price of data as well.

“It is very important because other African countries that are not as big as we are have a lesser price of data.”

Pantami insisted that the NCC’s major responsibility was to protect the consumers and not the service providers.

“As a regulator, your main agenda is to protect the customers. Customers are supposed to be kings and most of these customers are Nigerians.“Our top priority should be the interest of customers, who happened to be Nigerians,” he stressed.

Further directing the board and the management of the NCC to “immediately sit down and address some pending issues that I have been talking about,” Pantami said he would face a panel on Saturday to defend the ministry’s achievements so far.

He added that he would face another panel to be chaired by the President, on December 1, where he would present a report on the activities of the ministry and its parastatals.Pantami also directed the NCC to expand the penetration of 3G and 4G networks in the country.

https://punchng.com/telecom-firms-get-five-days-to-stop-illegal-deductions/amp/

Data should be cheap please it's too expensive the other day on glo ghana I saw 20gb for 50 ghana cedis you see the huge difference same glo is giving us 1000 naira for 3.6gb, you see the huge difference people in ghana pay 50 cedis for 20gb too much data while paying 1000 to get 3.6gb, 50naira for a start should get 1gb and also illegal data deduction mtn and glo infact all of them are guilty

Most of our directives are political directives that those concern ignore, and that ends it.

Having established the fact that the communication company has been illegally charging its subscribers, what sanctions has been placed on them? Since a wrong has been committed then punishment must follow... Also how does a common man seek redress for this illegal deduction? The deduction may be too small but accumulative making much from millions of subscribers. The govt owes us a lot is this respect. We seek protection

This young minister seems to be different from the likes of Yahaya Below. He's kinda proactive. Always giving order to NCC boss who is old enough to be his father.

They gave them five extra days to chop data endlessly! Isn’t the NCC wonderful?

When are they going to serve the same directive to banks?

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Very good one from the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Slow and steady we are getting things right at last in this nation.

But the enemies of the country will always be blind and deaf to this good news as usual.
All they are here to read is bad and negative news.
Their problems!

God bless Nigeria.

Shut up and face the matter at hand. You're the real enemy of this country.

Airtel I hail o

Am loving this minister. He listen and also engages.
The part that sweet my Belle was he loaded his phone and couldn't get the service he paid for.

Not some minister that don't make use or know the value of what they control.

I hope the NCC will enforce the minister directives

post=83781054:
Very good one from the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Slow and steady we are getting things right at last in this nation.

But the enemies of the country will always be blind and deaf to this good news as usual.
All they are here to read is bad and negative news.
Their problems!

God bless Nigeria.

Shut up and face the matter at hand. You and your type are the real enemies of this country.

Frankbaro:

Shut up and face the matter at hand. You're the real enemy of this country.

MISTAICEY02288:
Nuisance!

Normally, we ignore tins like you.
But for posterity sake,
Let's give you this parting message.
Happy wailing, enemy of the state.
This country will move forward without you and your ilks.
We are on track already.
Knocks