Scorecard: No plans to strip NCC of its powers says Pantami
By Jessica Dogo
The Federal Government has no plans to strip the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) of its powers, says the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.
Prof. Isa Pantami said this in his presentation at the 19th Edition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Scorecard from 2015 to 2023, in Abuja.
Pantami, in his presentation, said there was no iota of truth in insinuations that the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) was designed to take the powers of NCC.
He said that both the NCC Act 2003 and NITDA Act 2007 were obsolete and long overdue for review due to imperatives of new technologies, as old acts did not address the fourth industrial revolution and emerging technologies.
"We are talking about Fourth Generation (4G) Technology a...














