NCC, NITDA to boost Nigeria’s ICT Development

A joint committee has been set up to design a framework for collaboration to optimize development efforts for the telecommunications and ICT in the country.
This was a major outcome of the interactions between the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, when the Acting Director General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Vincent Olagunju, and his team paid a courtesy visit to the NCC headquarters in Abuja at the weekend. Both agreed that a new era of interagency collaboration, especially within the sister ICT agencies would bring about desirable results, in line with global best practices.
Dr. Agu Collins Agu, a director at NITDA, would chair the committee and it is expected to provide detailed areas of collaboration and terms of reference.
Commenting Danbatta said the initiative will prove to the world that sister agencies in our clime can work together in the interest of the nation. While charging the committee members to work assiduously to ensure that the objective of the collaboration is actualized.
“We must concentrate on those things that we know that with the right investments and involvement of our human capital resources, we would realize things that we can show the world about the giant strides that are being made in this country, especially in the area of Information and Communications Technology.
“But we have to be mindful of the fact that, the more you introduce services, the more your burden the infrastructure on ground. I hope that you (committee) will take cognizance of what you need to do to address the existing capacity of infrastructure.