Dr Aminu Maida identifies with digital economy vision

New Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida, has pledged to deliver on President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda to advance the nation’s digital transformation agenda.

Maida, who was addressing the senior management team in Abuja, stressed the need for the agency to strategically focus on ensuring all Nigerians have access to affordable and reliable broadband services via “effective broadband infrastructure diffusion across the length and breadth of Nigeria.”  He lauded former chief executives of the commission for building a resilient telecoms industry.  
  
The new telecoms regulator said the pursuit of improved quality of service would be one of his priorities, as well as supporting the vision of the Federal Government and the Ministry of Communications, Innovations and Digital Economy.
   
The commission, in a statement, quoted Maida as saying: “Considering the fact that many people are going more digital and virtual in everything they do, the telecoms infrastructure is now under much stress. President Tinubu’s vision emphasizes the need to build more robust broadband connectivity that will not only facilitate seamless digital transactions, but also serve as the bedrock for e-governance and other socio-economic initiatives.
  
“As such, we would align with this aspiration to increase broadband penetration to 70 per cent, and to cover 90 per cent of the population by 2025. Therefore, we need to build a reliable telecoms industry with impressive quality of service (QoS) indicators with quality of experience (QoE) as our watchword and ultimate goal. This also requires us to address a number of issues such as the Right of Way (RoW) challenge, ensuring security of our telecoms infrastructure, among others. Efforts must be made to significantly improve service delivery by ensuring the NCC is performance-driven.”