The executive vice chairman and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Danbatta is billed to deliver the keynote Address at the 1st SUPERNEWS Nigeria Conference slated for Thursday, April 27, 2023 at Radisson Hotel, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.
Publisher of the online medium, Miss Ngozi Onyeakusi, said in a release that Danbatta will deliver a paper entitled ‘The imperatives of fintech in promoting financial inclusion in Nigeria.”
She also said the event would be chaired by the chief executive officer of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), Mr. Sunday Thomas.
She said financial inclusion holds a great potential for the Nigerian economy and for the financial stability of the country adding that the choice of Danbatta was informed by the commission’s commitment in ensuring strong and credible regulatory framework that will engender a positive outcome in the financial inclusion policy of the federal government.
Danbatta, who is currently serving a second term of five years in office, earned his BEng, MSc degrees from the Technical University of Wroclaw in Poland and received his PhD from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).
He successfully spearheaded the attainment and surpassing of Nigeria’s national broadband target in 2018.
Currently, he is among those leading the charge for the realisation of the new national broadband target of 70 per cent by 2025.
