NCC boss, Danbatta reacts as Nigeria gets re-elected as ITU Council member

By Adeleye Kunle

In clear recognition of the critical role Nigeria is playing on the global telecom stage, the country has been re-elected earlier as a Council member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency that oversees global telecommunication operations. Nigeria will serve on the Council again from 2023-2026.

The election of Nigeria and other countries, on Monday, October 3, 2022, into different regional groups that constitute ITU Council, was the highpoint of the Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 (PP-22) ongoing in Bucharest, the capital city of the Republic of Romania.

The Nigerian delegation was successfully led to the global event by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami.

Other members of the delegation include the Chairman, Board of Commissioners of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Adeolu Akande, and the Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta.

At the conference, which started on September 26, 2022, and scheduled to end on October 14, 2022, member States at the event voted on the composition of the next ITU Council and the 12 representatives to serve on the Radio Regulations Board (RRB) for the next four years

The 21st Plenipotentiary Conference of the Council also saw the election by member States, of Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States of America as the organisation’s next Secretary-General