NCC restates 97% readiness for 5G deployment

The Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC’s) plan for Fifth Generation (5G) technology deployment in the country continued to gather momentum with the Commission confirming that its readiness to begin full implementation was at 97 per cent. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, re-affirmed the status of the Commission’s 5G technology deployment at the annual African Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTech 2021) held in Lagos on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 with the overarching theme: “Embracing Changes and Digital Transformation in the New Normal.” Focusing his presentation on “NCC as…

Tony Ojobo: The Clinical Brand Oxygenator Exits NCC By Omoniyi Ibietan

The Public Affairs Department (PAD) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has benefited from the superintendence of two great and wonderful men that I know and worked with. The first is Dave Imoko, UgwuAro, avuncular and thoroughbred public servant who retired from NCC some years ago. Imoko’s defining and unique selling power was the rare creative ability to make meaning of and effortlessly live with two contradictions – the essentially anachronistic, often counterproductive and frequently sickening civil service rules, and the dynamic, competitive and strategy-oriented principles of contemporary public relations…

Ojobo Bags NIPR Presidential Award.

The Corporate spokesman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Tony Ojobo, will on Thursday, December 14, 2017 receive the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) Presidential Award. The conferment of this prestigious award was communicated to Ojobo by President and Chairman of Council of NIPR, Dr. Rotimi Oladele. Specifically, Oladele told Ojobo in the letter that “the prestigious award is given in recognition of your sterling leadership qualities, outstanding contributions towards the development of the Public Relations practice and support for industry advancement”. The award ceremony will climax the yearly…