The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has engaged telecommunication stakeholders on how to mitigate the threat of cybersecurity, online fraud and other risk management.
DAILY POST learnt this during a two-day maiden edition of the NCC’s telecommunications industry risk management conference in Abuja on Monday.
The Conference, “Nigerian Telecommunication Industry: Managing the Emerging Risks and Embracing Risk Ppportunities’, witnessed a convergence of significant stakeholders.
In his remarks at the event, the Executive Vice Chairman, EVC, NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta, rallied around major stakeholders on ways to address emerging risks within the industry.
Prof Danbatta, represented by the Director of Policy Competition, Analysis, PCA, Mrs Yetunde Akinleye, revealed that the conference is timely and vital for the fast-changing telecoms ecosystem.
Danbatta urged players in the sector to be more conscious of the uncertainties and risks the industry is confronting.
He called for collaboration in ending [threat to] cybersecurity, online fraud, regulatory burden, double taxation, vandalism of telecommunication infrastructure, Right of Way, RoW challenges, access to foreign…
