ITRealms:
The newly appointed Executive Vice Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),
Professor Umaru Danbatta, has resumed duty in acting capacity pending
confirmation by the Senate, and promised to tackle quality of service issues in
the industry.
Head, Public Relations at NCC, Mr. Reuben Muoka in a press
statement available to ITRealms, said
Professor Danbatta who addressed a cross section of top management and Staff of
the NCC at the headquarters in Abuja on Friday, said that he will bring his
experience to bear in confronting the challenges of the telecom industry in
Nigeria.
“I want to pledge that I will bring to bear, my wealth of
experience in tackling the issue of quality of service in order to meet the
expectations of the public that we are servicing,” he said.
The Professor of Electronics engineering, said he would
focus on those internationally acceptable ideals in telecom regulation, as
stipulated by the International Telecommunications Union, ITU that makes
quality of service a compelling attraction for the achievement of universal
service.
“The concept of universal access is premised on three ‘A’s,
as the hallmarks of universal access and they include Availability of service,
Accessibility of Service, and Affordability of service. Those will dictate at
all times what we do, and I am sure those were the dictating parameters for
improvement in the quality of service”, he said.
Prof. Danbatta admitted there are challenges in the
telecommunications industry but that they are not insurmountable. He enjoined
the support and cooperation of the staff of the Commission to succeed,
affirming that NCC still reckons as the number telecom regulator in Africa and
the need for the staff to brace up for sustaining the prime position in the
interest of the nation.
“We will judiciously use the resources of the Commission to
ensure that we maintain this position in a manner that will enhance the image
and prestige of the Commission as well as serve as a reminder to government of
the important role that this agency can play in improving the GDP. This we can
only do if all of us live up to our responsibilities as ambassadors of the
Commission, and in these I urge everybody’s cooperation to enable us accomplish
this very important task for the country”, he told the staff.
Prof Danbatta’s experience in the telecom regulatory sector
spans the academia, as a university don and the industry where he once serviced
as Vice President of the NCC-owned Digital Bridge Institute (DBI).
An accomplished academician of repute,
Danbatta has served as a lecturer
in the Department
of Electrical Engineering,
Faculty of Technology Bayero University, Kano for 28 years,
where he taught courses
in telecommunications engineering,
and electronics and held
academic positions of
Dean of the Faculty and Head of Department at
different times.
The new Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, ITRealms gathered was born in Danbatta Local Government
Council of Kano State. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Science,
and Ph.D degrees from the Technical University of Wroclaw in Poland, and the University of Manchester Institute of
Science and Technology UK, respectively.
The new NCC helmsman has also held high profile
administrative responsibilities, including
Chairmanship of the
Implementation Committee of Kano State University of Science & Technology, and subsequently
became its pioneer Deputy, and
Acting Vice-Chancellor when
it took off
in 2001.
He had served two terms of five years as a Member of Council
for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), and is also a COREN
registered engineer as well as a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).
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