Year: 2021

Huawei rated as sole leader in 5G competitive landscape assessment

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Huawei’s 5G Core portfolio has been rated as the “leader”among all the 5G core products from the world’s mainstream telecom equipment vendors by GlobalData in its recently released report entitled 5G Mobile Core: Competitive Landscape Assessment.   GlobalData is a world-renowned data analytics and consulting company in the ICT industry. It provides expertise on market research and predictions in addition to vendor and product analysis.   In the 5G landscape assessment report, it estimates that 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G NSA, and 5G SA networks will coexist for a long time.…

NCC Christian Fellowship holds 2021 Christmas Carol

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Christian community under the aegis of the NCC Christian Fellowship (NCCCF) recently organised its annual End of Year Thanksgiving and Christmas Carol to thank God for a successful and prosperous year, and to seek divine guidance for the year 2022.   At the event, which took place at Commission’s Christian Chapel located at NCC’s Annex Office, Mbora District, Abuja, members reveled in the glory of a successful year 2021 through rendition of soul-lifting and praise worship through special carols that resonate with and symbolize the…

Congolese Regulator understudies Nigeria’s Telecoms market … as NCC shares regulatory experience

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Faith in the operational excellence and regulatory efficiency that have become the marks of Africa’s foremost regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), was demonstrated recently when a delegation from the Congo-Brazzaville Telecommunications Regulations Authority (CTRA) visited the NCC on a benchmarking tour. The delegation from the central African nation purposively paid a scheduled visit to NCC, essentially to understudy the latter’s policies, practices and programmes that have made it a model telecommunications regulatory authority on the Continent and beyond. The Congolese team led by CTRA’s Network Director, Benjamin Mouandza, spent…

Gov Sule vows to fish out perpetrators of recent communal crisis

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Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has vowed to fish out perpetrators of the recent communal crisis in parts of the state that resulted in the loss of lives and displacement of people.   Engineer Sule made this known while delivering a speech shortly after administering the oath of office on newly appointed commissioners and special advisers, at a ceremony which held at the Lafia City Hall, on Wednesday.   According to the governor, Nasarawa State has been peaceful since the coming of his administration, mostly as a result of…

Gov Sule swears-in new Commissioners, Special Advisers, tasks appointees on leaving lasting legacies

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Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule has sworn-in 14 newly appointed commissioners and 18 special advisers, charging the appointees on leaving legacies that will stand the test of time. Engineer Sule laid the task shortly after swearing in the commissioners and special advisers at a colourful ceremony that took place at the Lafia City Hall, on Wednesday. According to the governor, following his approval for the dissolution of the last state executive council, his administration found it necessary to select persons with requisite ideology, creativity and pragmatism, expected to accelerate…

COMMUNIQUE BEING RESOLUTIONS REACHED AT THE END OF ONE-DAY NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AGRICULTURE AND EXHIBITION BY OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY MUSLIM GRADUATES ASSOCIATION (UNIFEMGA) OGUN STATE BRANCH HELD AT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO PRESIDENTIAL AUDITORIUM, ABEOKUTA.

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The Obafemi Awolowo University Muslim Graduates’ Association, (UNIFEMGA), Ogun State branch, organised a special programme with a focus on Agriculture and the prospects for prosperity. Tagged: Agric Business and Economic Insecurity; The Way Forward for Entrepreneurs. The event brought together professionals and enthusiasts from the public and private sectors in Agriculture. Experts invited to the programme proffered many solutions to the myriads of problems of food and agricultural prosperity in Nigeria. The resolutions included: 1. Agriculture is a serious business which can provide employment to the teeming employed Nigerians. 2.…

Huawei, 49 other global brands receive recognition for support to startups

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For the sixth year running, startups have nominated the corporate organisations they believed to be most active in terms of open innovation for the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Launched by Mind the Bridge under the European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership initiative in 2016, the Awards have been scaled at global level thanks to a partnership with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).   In total, 50 companies, located in every region of the world have been recognized for their work: 25 as Global Corporate Startup Stars and 25…

Broadband: Pantami, Danbatta assure of FG’s plans to bridge Infrastructure Deficit

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Ongoing policy directions and regulatory measures being put in place by the Nigerian Government towards bridging identified broadband infrastructure gaps shall be sustained in order to facilitate increased access to the Internet by citizens across the country. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, and the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, gave the assurance in their presentations during the recently-concluded virtual African Internet Governance Forum 2021 (vAFIGF2021). The three-day annual forum which held in-person and virtually, was…

FG declares holidays for Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year

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The Federal Government has declared December 27 and 28, 2021 and January 3, 2022 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year Day celebration. This was contained in a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr. Shuaib Belgore, on Wednesday. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, felicitated with Christians and all Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora. Aregbesola enjoined Christians to practice the doctrines of Christ, which include but not limited to faith, hope…

NHRC unveils Final Report on peace building … targets Farmer/Herder crisis in Middle Belt

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The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu, SAN has said the “Final Report on Integrated Approach to Building Peace in Nigeria’s Farmer/Herder Crisis Project in the Middle Belt Nigeria will pave the way for enhanced capacity building of affected communities and serve as early warning for stakeholders to nip crisis in the bud. The Executive Secretary who stated this at the launch of the final report of the project in Abuja, said that the Commission in collaboration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human…