The Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile subsidiary (MTEL) are to employ 10,000 Nigerians, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications has been informed.

The new owners of the once state-owned telecommunications giant, NATCOM, which is a consortium of seven local and foreign companies, made the disclosure at an investigative public hearing by the committee on over the weekend in Abuja.

NATCOM chairman, Mr. Olatunde Ayeni, had told the House committee that having met all requirements and due diligence in the process leading to the acquisitions of NITEL and MTEL, the company has put in place a programme of resuscitating the two ailing telecoms companies.

According to Ayeni, efforts were ongoing at overhauling the entire cable system while 10,000 Nigerians would be employed to set the companies on the part of competition with other players in the market.

While expressing satisfaction with NATCOM and its work-plan, the Hon. Saheed Fijabi-led committee directed both the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to meet and discuss the sales of the two national telecoms firms.

The parley according to the committee, was to review the commercial and technical areas of the sale as they affect the telecommunications regulatory body and the BPE.

The committee particularly expressed its concern over the settlement of the indebtedness of NITEL by its new owner, NATCOM.

The committee however noted that though NATCOM did all that were required of it despite not been given any form of waiver by BPE and NCC in the process leading to the sales, but pointed out that it was however necessary that the grey areas of NITEL’s indebtedness be sorted out by the BPE and NCC.

The committee also mandated the BPE and NCC to report back to it after the said meeting.


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We are only interested in the quality of service NITEL\MTEL are going to offer and not the number of Nigerians they are going to employ, after all the former NITEL employed thousands and failed woefully.

Hmm. This natcom would have been a nice place to work ooo

The new company seems to be run on newspapers! open your door and stop all this nonsense

Good news!!

NA LIE






Nieria don't DULL oh

Na today Abeggii next we go here them lay off 20,000 out of 10,000

thats a welcome development

Wat a nice news for the day

NITEK and MTEL na how much una Get



Abi una think sey nigeria na fool.



God help us all in nigeria

Privatize everything privatizable if it will improve the quality of the service and also improve the quality of our lives...

This project seems like it would take forever to start up

Good move if it works out.

Let's see if it works out

Goodnews

Interesting

We are waiting, just hope they compete favourably well with the more established telecommunication giants in Nigeria.

It will be a welcome development

Waiting patiently

Dusting chairs for dem to go sit down. Bfor dey wil start blaming GEJ for dea failure........dat na netwrk?...........mtchewww.

Pls fellas call me when u hear anytin recruitment in Abuja...08067812935....mk we yan ...even when nitel starts recruiting...pls holla...God bless you

Na Awka

Hmhmhmhmhmh I can see the brither future of our dear country naija. Around d conner

anetuno:
We are only interested in the quality of service NITEL\MTEL are going to offer and not the number of Nigerians they are going to employ, after all the former NITEL employed thousands and failed woefully.

I don't think NITEL failed they just fizzled out when GSM companies got into the game

Watching in 3D

K

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another noise

one thing for sure about tis current Nigeria is that a lot of devt is happening on newspapers. from the selective fight against corruption to job creation

Every good thing takes time in planning and executing,I'm not a spokesperson for NTEL but I believe this will be a revolutionary change,other networks are jonsing at the moment,(except etisalat sha) so I see NTEL grabbing this opportunity with both hands.let them take their time and deliver a world class service than rush and be just another provider.