FG’s Digital Transformation, Broadband Penetration Goals Receives Boost

The federal government’s aspiration to ensure broadband penetration and digital transformation in the telecoms sector has received fresh backing.

The much expected backing this time is coming from the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), and is expected to improve telecoms access in the country.

NGF’s chairm, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, who is also the Governor of Kwara State, relayed the forum’s willingness to support the ideals, in Abuja yesterday.

“We fully support the national commitment to raise broadband penetration to 80% by 2027”, he told delegates at the opening of the Business Roundtable on Investments in Broadband Connectivity and Safeguarding Critical National Information Infrastructure.

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“Achieving this will require an additional 95,000 kilometres of fibre-optic cable across Nigeria, which the Minister of Digital Economy has alluded to. This ambitious task calls for genuine collaboration among stakeholders gathered here today,” Abdulrazaq added

Responding to the gesture, the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, agreed that the NGF could actually play a pivotal role by fostering consistency and consensus among states, encouraging compliance through peer engagement, and aligning state policies with national broadband objectives.

Ribadu wh was represented by the Director of the National Assets and Infrastructure Protection Office of the National Security Adviser, AVM Enebong Effiom, said the NSA was in a position to facilitate dialogue on all regulated broadband concerns that hinder digital inclusion and infrastructure growth.