The
Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah emerged top in this year’s “Icon
of Africa Information Awards” at the 2014 African Innovation Awards and Cyber
Nigeria Forum, held at the Sheraton Hotels Lagos recently, reports DigitalSENSE Business News.
Dr. Bayero
Agabi Managing Editor of Cyber Africa and Chairman of the organizing Committee
of African Innovation Awards told DigitalSENSE
Business News that “the award is bestowed on innovators and policy makers
that have used their offices, privileges and skills to promote Information
Communication Technology for development and benefits of the society at large.”
Dr. Juwah, he said, beat two other high profile nominees to the grand prize having seen off the
challenge from Dr. Stephen-Sipho Mncube Chairman Independent Communications
Authority of South Africa and Mr. Francis Wangusi Director-General of Kenya
Communications Commission to the award.
The 2014
Africa Innovation Award is in recognition of Juwah’s achievements and efforts
towards ensuring broadband availability and affordability.
Dr. Juwah
emerged the winner in recognition of his campaign for the affordability of
internet and other telecommunication services which the Nigeria Communication
Commission (NCC) under Dr. Juwah has brought to bear on tariffs for SMS, the
introduction of Mobile Number Portability to provide choice for the consumer,
the successful completion of SIM Card Registration project and firm stance that
he has taken against service providers being sanctioned for not meeting the key
performance indicators by the commission on Quality of Service among others.
Some of
these actions have improved the ratings of the Nigeria Communication Commission
(NCC), and have positively affected the Nigerian consumer of telecommunication
services in one way or another including broadband penetration in Nigeria
telecommunication sector, to make broadband affordable and evenly distributed
across the country.
The Nigeria
Communication Commission (NCC) also won the Best Government Website Award at
the Africa Innovation Awards. The Commission was recognized for the best
website among government agencies in Nigeria, which offers easy access to
government information at the speed of thought building capacity and
consolidation, which has helped transform the commission to the envy of the
public sector model enterprise today.
The award which
was presented by Nigeria’s Minister of Communication Technology Mrs. Omobola
Johnson who was represented by Mr. Tope Fashedemi, Director of e-governance at
the Ministry thanked Tribe Media Company the organizers for the wonderful
award. We use this to further “reiterate the commitment of the commission to
empower the consumers with the provision of quality and affordable
telecommunication services” he said.
He dedicated
the award to the Nigerian consumers and hope in the very near future, there
will be a very considerable improvement in the quality of service and access to
broadband which will be made available, accessible and affordable.
Other
categories of winners include, Best Government Website (MDA CATEGORY), Nigerian
Communication Commission, Financial Software Provider of the year Precise
Financial Systems, Enterprise Solution Providers of the year-VOADCOM, Best Pan
African OEM RLG, Outstanding recognition for the Promotion of ICT4D National
Information Technology Development Agency among many others.
Photo: Dr. Juwah of NCC.
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