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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Ibrahim Pantami, on Monday, commended the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Umar Danbatta and the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullah for their efforts in the rollout of the Ministry's projects across the country.He said projects being commissioned today were executed by NCC and NITDA as part of the Ministry's efforts in accelerating the development of Nigeria’s digital economy, adding that all the projects are carefully thought-out and executed efficiently, with a view to ensuring the sustainable growth of Nigeria’s digital economy, across the entire country.   Pantami, said: "They play a major role in the development...

 The Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has shared his experiences on some of the regulatory models, approaches and best practices being implemented by the Commission in promoting a stable telecoms sector and accelerating digital inclusion in Nigeria. Danbatta shared these experiences while receiving a delegation from Autoridade Reguladora Nacional (ARN), the Telecom National Regulatory Authority of Guinea-Bissau who were on a week-long benchmarking visit to the Commission in Abuja on Wednesday, May 26. The delegation was in the Commission to gain insights into NCC’s regulatory template as part of the exchange to build stronger bilateral relations with the Commission in the area of telecommunications regulation. ...

The Vice Chairman, NBA Gwagwalada Branch and Head, Human Rights Committee of the Branch, Barr. David E. Aigbefoh has facilitated a parcel of land at Tungan Maje Community in Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja to the Nigeria Police. The land was handed over during a brief ceremony to the Representatives of the FCT Police Command on thursday, 27th of May, 2021. Speaking during the Inspection of the land ,Superintendent of Police and Officer in Charge of Works, Mr. Haruna who led two other senior police officers expressed satisfaction over the land and promised to hit the ground running, by providing the prototype of a Divisional Police Headquarters building by Tuesday next week. Thanks to our innovations, specialists from the site https://agaverest....

Natives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the aegis of Coalition of the FCT Indigenous Association have threatened to shut down the national assembly over their exclusion in the nominee appointment of commissioners as chief commissioner for the Public Complaints Commission (PCC). Addressing a joint press conference in Abuja, on Friday, the Coordinator of the group, Alhaji Kamal Adamu Shuaibu, said despite the nominees for the position of chief commissioner for Public Complaints Commission (PCC) was made public as well as the state representative commissioners, the FCT representative was deliberately removed. Shuaibu said the natives findings further confirmed that the PCC by the act establishing the commission was an operational organization directly under the supervi...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Thursday said that in joint collaboration with the DSS and local hunters it successfully rescued fourteen (14) victims kidnapped at Gauraka area of Niger State. ASP Yusuf Mariam, the FCT Police public Relations Officer, said the feat was achieved during a joint operation at Byhazin-Bwari axis of the territory. She said: “The Joint Operation led by the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Squad combed the forest, engaged in a fierce gun duel with suspected kidnappers dislodged them and arrested two (2) kidnap suspects while others escaped with bullet wounds. Exhibits recovered from the kidnappers’ den are: two (2) AK-47 magazines and cooking utensils. The victims who appeared frail after several days in captivity are currently receiving m...

A non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Secure-D-Future International Initiative, has called on the Federal Government to invest more in education to help secure the children’s future in the county. Mrs Sa’adatu Adamu, the initiative’s founder, made the call on Thursday, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to commemorate the 2021 Children’s Day celebration at the Abuja School for the Blind. Adamu urged stakeholders to join the over one billion voices around the world to call on the government to improve the quality of education and make it accessible to everyone. “There is the need for the Federal and State governments to begin massive deployment of innovations and technology infrastructure in education delivery system in the country. “Teachers must also be tr...

Former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar joins other well-meaning citizens to congratulate Nigerian children on the occasion of Children’s Day. In a message released by his media office in Abuja on Wednesday, Atiku Abubakar reminded that it is incumbent on us as a society to ensure that they (children) attain their full potential in life. The former Vice President expressed regrets and disappointments that efforts to make life easy and better for the children are yielding abysmal results. This, he noted, has not been helped by the ongoing global pandemic ravaging the world, and which has caused many schools to be partially or completely shut down as the world struggles to curtail the spread...