1 Name: Professor Umar Garba Danbatta.
2 He is the Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
3 The amiable and cerebral professor of telecommunications engineering is also a revered author, philanthropist and administrator extraordinaire.
4 Danbatta, a multiple award-winning professor earned his BEng, MSc degrees from the Technical University of Wroclaw in Poland and later bagged his PhD from the prestigious University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
5 Danbatta, a distinguished and revered authority in the nation’s telecoms sector, successfully led the attainment and surpassing of Nigeria’s national broadband target in 2018. Interestingly, he’s currently among those leading the charge for the attainment of the new national broadband target of 70% by 2025.
6 The very hard-working professor who is hugely revered at both home and abroad, is a proud fellow of the following prestigious associations: Nigeria Academy of Engineering, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable and Alternative Energy Society of Nigeria, among others.
7 Danbatta, a former acting vice chancellor in a Nigerian university was appointed to lead NCC first in 2015.
8 The professor with the Midas touch, who was born on January 22, 1959, is currently serving a second term of five years in office since 2020.
9 He was a former vice president of the Digital Bridge Institute, an advanced communications centre founded by the NCC since 2004.
10 Danbatta, who is happily married with children, is a recipient of several distinguished awards and certificates within and outside Nigeria. They include the respected Zik Prize in Professional Leadership and several others.
