The trio of Governors of Akwa Ibom, Ekiti and Lagos States
have been confirmed to grace the forthcoming maiden edition of the Telecom
Stakeholders Summit being organized by the Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC), reports DigitalSENSE Business News.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Summit and
Director, Public Affairs of the Commission, Mr. Tony Ojobo, confirmed to DigitalSENSE Business News that the Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Obong Godswill
Akpabio would preside over the event, while the Governor Ekiti State, Dr.
Kayode Fayemi would present a keynote. While Governor of Lagos State, Mr.
Babatunde Raji Fashola, is the Host Governor, just as Minister of Communication
Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson would also present a keynote at the event.
NCC, he said, has concluded arrangements for the hosting of
the maiden edition of an annual Telecom Stakeholders Summit in Nigeria.
The summit, slated for Lagos at the Intercontinental Hotel,
Victoria Island, Lagos, on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 with the theme “Transforming
a Nation with Broadband: Telecom as Instrument for Sustainable Development.”
According to him, the summit has been designed to bring
together, different stakeholders of the telecom industry to interact and
discuss issues that affect them from their various perspectives and interests.
“It will comprise a forum, product and services showcase, and
gala nite,” he declared.
In addition, Ojobo affirmed that members of the National
Assembly and top industry chieftains and experts, including service providers
and consumers are expected at the maiden edition of the flagship telecom summit
in Nigeria.
The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, was
quoted as saying the summit will provide veritable platform for interaction and
sharing of ideas across different stakeholders, as well as providing an
opportunity for appraisal of the performance of the industry, while projecting
for the future.
Juwah noted that the summit evolved out of the need to
achieve a more inclusive consultation among the different stakeholders in line
with the consultative approach to the Commission’s regulatory mandate.
Further, Mr. Ojobo, said the summit boasts of full
representation of the key stakeholders in the industry including the consumers,
the government at different levels, the investors, the service providers, the
media, the financial industry and international telecom community.
The summit, as said by him, promises to offer intense
discourse about the industry, it potentials and its direction while also
providing an atmosphere for relaxation and interaction between the diverse
stakeholder segments of the industry,
while sending a signal to the world about our unity of purpose, and huge
potentials that abound in our country.
Remmy Nweke
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