NCC Expends N500m To Fund Research In Nigerian Universities

The executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Telecommunications Commission (NCC ) Professor Umar Garba Danbatta has said that the commission has invested as much as N500 million to fund Research within the Nigerian University system.

He maintained that the commission has invested over five hundred million Naira for funding research on the telecom sector in the Nigerian University system.

Danbatta stated this during the regional round table meeting with the academia, industry, and other stakeholders held in Kano.

He said the essence of the stakeholder’s meeting was to fine-tune modalities of commercialization of research output NCC sponsored in the Nigerian University system.

He said the idea was to enhance ways of commercialising the prototypes so that they can be deployed in improving the delivery of telecom services, as well as improving the quality of the services.

(NAN)