NCC, the interested parties face the challenges of rural connectivity

[Press Release] The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has collaborated with the association for progressive communications and other institutional interested parties to face the challenges that compare with the connectivity of the rural network in Nigeria.

The collaboration led to a two-day seminar hosted in Abuja from 3-4 June 2025, to explore the political framework to allow the goals of the community to fill the digital gap and accelerate the socio-economic development in the underground communities and not served by Nigeria.

The forum brought together regulators, leaders of the community, technical experts and potential foreign investors, among others, to examine political and regulatory barriers, explore innovative financing mechanisms, guarantee sustainable renewable solutions and strengthen collaboration with the interested parties.

Telling to the participants in the seminary, the executive vice -president of the NCC, dr. Aminu Maida, said that the seminar is important to fill the digital gap in Nigeria and encourage inclusive economic economic development.

“This workshop is an opportunity for all of us to harness the Expertise, Insights, and Experiences of different stakeholders Present here Which Includes the Regulars, Community Leaders, Technical Experts and Potential Foreign Providers to Address the Critical Challenges Such As Affordable Devices, Access, License, Licensing, Spectrum Allocation, Infrastructure Development, Sustainability and Institutional Monitoring, “Said Maida, WHO WAS RESPENted by the Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, NCC at the event, Abraham Oshadami.

Maida said that the workshop demonstrates the commission’s commitment to advance digital inclusion, particularly in underground and unable areas. “At the NCC, we recognize the transformative potential of the networks of the Community Center in achieving this important objective,” he said.

The EVC said that the NCC is engaged in “This journey and sees this seminar as a catalyst for a significant change”, stating that the experience, perspectives and commitments will modify the future in which every Nigerian, regardless of its status, will have significant access to opportunities from digital connectivity.

In his observations, the co-manager of the Locat (Locnet) initiative of Association for Progressive Communications, Kathleen Dam, observed that the collaboration had to face the obstacles identified to the digital inclusion. “This is a space in which we can be open and exchange ideas of possibilities, opportunities that will remain in making the values ​​of a diversified ecosystem.”

Dam said: “I think this seminar has a time when we can explore the approach from the bottom upwards in local communities, small social enterprises, the corporate, among others, which have the ability to fill some of the digital gaps that remain not filled,” he said, adding the need to recognize that the connection of the center of the community exists and are growing throughout the global South, which said they are a strategic response “.

The seminar saw the presentations of the NCC, of ​​the association for progressive communications and other institutional interested parties such as the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) oriented towards the exploration of a joint political framework to face the rural digital division.

The Association for Progressive Communications is a 35 -year -old organization based on members of the international network that encourages digital inclusion in non -served communities, in particular with the communities of global south and the seminary, through its Locnet initiative aimed at creating an inclusive regulatory framework for Community networks in Nigeria.

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AG. CAPO, Public Affairs
11 June 2025

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