Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said it is prepared to entrusting funds research in Nigerian institutions of learning to help end the number of challenges bedeviling the nation’s telecommunications industry.

•Prof Umar Garba Danbatta
Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta disclosed this at its first round table with academia, industry and other stakeholders in the South-South region held at the University of Benin.


Represented by the Director of Research and Development Department, Mr. Ephraim Nwokenneya, Danbatta said the telecom industry in its 17 years of existence has made progress but that lots of work still needed to be done to overcome some of the challenges in the sector.

He said the partnership with the academia was one of the ways out of the challenges in the sector.
“We have some challenges like misconception with respect to the effect of telecom infrastructure to human health. These are some challenges that research opportunity do exist and the academia has a lot personnel that could research in these areas.
“This is the first step toward identifying this research topic and find the costing that is required and making that available.

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