The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, will on Thursday January 26, 2017,
join the league of eminent Nigerians who deliver the Convocation Lecture of the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He will speak at the 46th Convocation
Lecture of the university.Danbatta who is billed to
present a paper titled: The Role of ICT Infrastructure in Tertiary Education in
Nigeria: NCC Interventions, is a Professor of telecommunications engineering.
According to the invitation letter signed by the Vice-Chancellor
of the university, Professor Benjamin C. Ozumba, the lecture “is a major
activity that marks the annual convocation ceremonies”. He said, the event has,
in the past, featured lecture presentations by renowned Nigerians like Chief
OlusegunObasanjo, Dr. ObiageliEzekwesili, late Prof Dora Akunyili, and Bishop
Mathew Hassan Kukah, among others.
Danbatta, who presented the October 2016 lecture of Nigerian
Academy of Engineering was also the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
NCC to address the
participants Senior Executive Course (SEC) of the National Institute for Policy
and Strategic Studies (NIPS).
He was, last year, invited to address 38th Senior Executive
Course (SEC) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPS),
on Thursday, March 31.
Since he assumed the mantle of leadership of the Africa’s
biggest telecom regulatory body, NCC has continued to receive more global
attention with numerous international recognitions coming its way.
Tony Ojobo
Director, Public Affairs
Nigerian Communications Commission
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