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Again, NCC Fixes New Date for
Mobile Number Portability
Launch
NCC Chairman, Dr Eugene Juwah
By Emma Okonji

The Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) has again fixed
another date for the launch of Mobile
Number Portability (MNP). This time,
the commission chose April 22 as the
new launch date across all networks of
Global System for Mobile
Communication (GSM).
The Director of Corporate Affairs at
NCC, Mr. Tony Ojobo, who dropped the
hint Thursday, told THISDAY in a
telephone interview that NCC
eventually settled for the April 22 MNP
launch date, having been convinced by
the network operators that their
networks were ready for the roll out of
Mobile Number Portability in Nigeria.
“We are going to celebrate it in a
colourful launch that will hold in Lagos
on April 22,” Ojobo said.
NCC had earlier warned that it was not
going to shift grounds on the planned
roll out of MNP, and insisted that the
roll out must be in April this year,
without mentioning any particular date
in April. The reason for not fixing a
particular launch date earlier, according
to Ojobo, was to allow the operators to
choose a convenient date, based on the
state of readiness of their networks. He
had however insisted that the roll out of
MNP would not exceed April this year.
NCC had fixed April 1, for the launch of
MNP, but shifted it to an unknown date
in the same month of April, after
telecoms operators came begging for
three weeks extension to enable them
complete test-run of their networks, in
preparation for the eventual roll out.
NCC had in 2006, announced for the
first time that it was going to implement
MNP, but it was not implemented, as
telecoms operators resisted it on the
ground that the network infrastructure
as at then, was not robust enough to
accommodate the challenges associated
with mobile number porting.
In 2009, NCC re-introduced Mobile
Number Portability and again the
operators turned it down, giving the
same reasons. In 2012, NCC gave
December 2012 as deadline for
operators to commence the exercise,
but they reluctantly agreed yet they
could not meet the deadline.
In January, NCC fixed March 25, as the
new date for the commencement of
MNP, but again, telecoms operators
were unable to meet up with the March
date, a situation which compelled NCC
to further shift date to April 1.
Having discovered that the April 1 date
was not going to be feasible, NCC
Thursday, announced April 22 as the
new date for the launch of MNP.
In technical parlance, Mobile Number
Portability is a process that allows
subscribers to migrate from one
network to another, in search of better
quality of service, while still retaining
the original phone number, irrespective
of the network the subscriber chooses
to migrate to.
NCC in its released guidelines for MNP,
made porting free of charge for
subscribers, but insisted that
subscribers could port their numbers,
once in every 90 days.

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supereagle: The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that it will be illegal for banks to compel their customers to accept the N5000 note when it comes into existence..

The apex bank, which denied allegations that it was forcing the new structure of the naira on Nigerians, said customers could reject N5000 note from banks

“I say this with all sense of responsibility as the deputy governor of the central bank that we shall ensure that no bank imposes N5000 on anybody who does not want it. You can go to your bank and say you don’t need N5000 note,” Deputy Governor (Operations) of the CBN, Mr. Tunde Lemo, said in a Channels Television interview programme on Saturday.

Lemo added that, “Every Nigerian has the prerogative of the currency he or she wants to have. You can go to your bank and say, you don’t need N5000 note. You can say ‘give me N500, N200 and N100.’ It will be illegal for that bank to say you must have N5000.

“We did not say take or leave it. If you don’t need it, you don’t need to ask for it. We are not saying people will be compelled to take the N5000 note.”

The ‘reject-N5000 note-call’ came even as the Nigerian Bar Association insisted that it would take the apex bank to court if it went ahead to introduce the N5000 denomination.

The NBA told The PUNCH on Sunday that it had not changed its position on the N5000 note. The association had in a statement after its Annual General Meeting on August 31, described introduction of N5000 as “a scam.”

But Lemo said the CBN was not averse to the criticisms trailing the planned currency restructuring. He described as untrue, a claim that the apex bank was forcing the proposed scheme on Nigerians.

He said, “We are public officers. We operate for public good. We may not be popular. Central banking anywhere in the world is not a popularity contest. We are interested in doing what is good and to explain what we are doing to the satisfaction of the public that we serve. That is why the dialogue that is going on is very important.”

Submitting that that the CBN had the power to print currency notes and mint coins , Lemo added that it (CBN) was taking advantage of technology to stay “ahead of counterfeiters.”

The CBN deputy governor also faulted the claim that the apex bank’s cashless policy in Lagos State had failed.

He explained that the bank first introduced cashless banking in Lagos because the state is a miniature Nigeria and due to the level of infrastructure obtainable therein .

Lemo said, “There are challenges that are outside the area of control of individuals and stakeholders. These are issues that we are dealing with. We cannot say we failed. It is just that the speed with which we should be running is slowed down by some of these challenges.”

He said that the CBN had set up a Customers’ Protection Department to handle complaints against banks.

He added that banks had been asked to set up help desks to cater for the new scheme and that issues that are not resolved within 48 hours should be referred to the CBN.

Meanwhile, the NBA has said it will go to court to stop the CBN from going ahead with the proposed introduction of N5000 note.

The association had in a statement described the proposal as a “shallow and poorly thought-out initiative” by the CBN. It added that N5000 notes would diminish the lives of Nigerians and push corruption and money laundering to unimaginable heights.

The NBA president, Mr. Okey Wali (SAN), while reacting to the endorsement of the scheme by the National Economic Management Team, said the association had not changed its position.

Wali, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, explained that though the association was watching the situation, it would not go back on its position.

Wali said, “We are watching the situation, but we are maintaining our position that the CBN should not go ahead with the introduction of N5000 note.

“We made it very clear in our communiqué why the Federal Government should not go ahead with it (introduction of N5000 note).”

Also on Sunday, the Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communnion), Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, said the introduction of N5000 note was not the solution to the problems facing Nigeria for now.

He spoke at the consecration of the Bishop of Ifo, Ogun State, Nathaniel Oladejo Ogundipe, at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, Kubwa in the Federal Capital Territory.

He said, “For me, they have explained to us that it is not going to cause inflation, but in my opinion as a common man, we don’t need N5000 note. We don’t even have money and there is poverty everywhere. If there is something else we can do with money, let us do it and stop not printing N5000 note. I don’t think it is desirable.

“It may not cause inflation as people fear, according to the economic analysis. But we are aware that the ones introduced before actually caused problems and reduced our lower denomination to nothing. I don’t think higher denomination is our problem today. Nigeria has many other problems to face than introducing higher denomination of money.”




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