NCC Offers Fellowship Positions For In-Depth Research

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has expressed intention to offer research fellowship positions for in-depth research to improve researchers’ experience in the industry.
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, disclosed this at the 3rd edition of the Stakeholders Forum with Academia, yesterday in Abuja.
The theme of the stakeholders’ forum is: “Stakeholders Collaboration in Research and Development: Key Driver for Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry.”
Danbatta, who was represented by Engr. Haru Alhassan, Director, New Media and Information Security, also said the commission had set up a National Steering Committee to develop a roadmap for research.
The EVC said that the roadmap would ensure improved academic researches, address local industry needs and boost the efforts of tertiary institutions to produce industry-ready graduates.
“We intend to offer research fellowship positions for in-depth research and exploration of problems the industry is facing whilst improving the researchers’ experience in the industry.
“We have also formed a National Steering Committee made up of the National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), the Academia and the industry, to develop a roadmap.
“I am confident that our cerebral and germane deliberations amongst like-minded people today, will impact positively on the development of the telecommunications industry, and its role in the growth of the nation’s economy,” he said.
He, however, called on the stakeholders to work together, identify and succinctly articulate the pressing needs of the industry to unlock the inherent potential of knowledge existing in the academia.