The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, will tomorrow, January 26, join the league of eminent Nigerians to deliver the Convocation Lecture of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
 
Danbatta, who will speak at the 46th Convocation Lecture, is billed to present a paper titled: The Role of ICT Infrastructure in Tertiary Education in Nigeria: NCC Interventions, is a Professor of telecommunications engineering.
 
According to the invitation letter signed by the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Benjamin C. Ozumba, the lecture “is a major activity that marks the annual convocation ceremonies.”
 
He said the event had, in the past, featured lecture presentations by renowned Nigerians like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, late Prof Dora Akunyili, and Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, among others.
 
Danbatta, who presented the October 2016 lecture of Nigerian Academy of Engineering, was also the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NCC to address the participants in the Senior Executive Course (SEC) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPS).