ITU World’12: Jonathan leads Nigeria’s delegates to Dubai

*As Adenuga, Ayogu Eze, Ndoma-Egba Victor bag national honours

Information reaching our news desk says that Nigeria’s President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has accepted to personally lead the Nigeria’s delegation to the forthcoming International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World 2012, slated for October in Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE).

DigitalSENSE News confirms that President Jonathan’s acceptance to attend ITU World in Dubai will bring about a high profile delegation at the ITU World 2012 holding in Dubai, where he will be playing role as the special guest at the Nigerian Pavilion at the event and meet with global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) leaders and investors at the forum holding between October 14 and 18, 2012 in Dubai.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works and Member of the

Committee on Communications was on Monday decorated with

 the National Award of Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON,

 by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. Photo shows from left:

Mr. Tony Ojobo, Director of Public Affairs of NCC, Lady Nkechi Ayogu and

 Senator Ayogu Eze, CON at a special reception at the Yar’Adua Center, Abuja.

ITU World 2012 is being organized by Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union, ITU, and prides itself as the biggest ICT forum that brings together governments and the private sector, regulators, investors, operators, vendors, and academia, youths and professionals of different hues, and equipment vendors, operators, and innovators. 

Nigeria is billed to showcase investment and market opportunities for broadband whose campaign began at the last year’s forum where the Minister for Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, and Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr Eugene Juwah, led the delegation that received commendations by the Secretary General of the ITU, Dr. Hamadoun Toure.

Executive Vice chairman of the NCC has indicated that the theme of the country’s participation at the ITU World is: Nigeria Broadband – A Connected Nation.  This, he said, will be canvassed by the President who will also use the occasion to assure the international community of Nigeria’s readiness to protect investments and promote competition in the spirit of deregulation and private sector participation.  

Nigeria is set to host the global ICT leaders to a closed door meeting and lunch while a special day has been set aside for hosting key participants at the forum including presentations at the Nigerian Pavilion where public and private institutions and companies are provided spaces to showcase their potentials to the world.

Speaking about the country’s participation at the ITU World recently Dr. Juwah has said the country wants to tell potential investors that Nigeria remains the preferred investment destination in Africa.

Senator Ndoma-Egba Victor

“We will also explain to the investors the areas that still need their attention since we have sizeable progress in voice telephony,” he declared, adding that with over 100 million lines in just a decade of frenzied telecom revolution, Juwah believes very strongly that broadband technology which can unlock data usage in Nigeria remains the next major frontier in the country’s march to consolidate her position as the biggest telecoms market in the continent.

In a related development, President Jonathan, Monday in Abuja decorated some Nigerians with national honours awards including the chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga, and chairman, Senate Committee on Works and member of Senate Committee on Communications, Senator Anyaogu Eze and Majority Leader, Senator Ndoma-Egba Victor, among others.

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