Danbatta, NCC boss addresses NIPSS on March 31
Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), will on Thursday, March 31, address participants of 38th Senior Executive Course (SEC) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPS).
In a statement issued by Yakubu Musa, his special assistant on media, the NCC boss, a professor, will make a presentation on “Mainstreaming Information Communications Technology (ICT) for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria” in an interactive session with participants of the course.
According to the statement, participants of the course are top officials drawn from both the private and public sector, including military, para-military and civilian personnel.
Danbatta, who recently unveiled an eight-point agenda, aimed at taking the telecommunications sector to the next level, had to his credit supervised more than 60 PhD, MEng and BEng projects in the diverse areas of telecommunications and has also served as external examiner to seven universities and polytechnics.
He’s currently the chairman of Common Wealth Telecommunications Organisation (WTO).