The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, is among the heads of key government agencies invited to make a presentation at a two-day retreat on enhancing revenue generation in the country.

The retreat, geared towards sensitizing stakeholders on the funding of the 2016 Budget, would hold from July 13 to 15, 2016 in Kano State.

Similarly, the retreat, which is organized by the Federal Ministry of Finance, is expected to feature technical presentations from relevant ministries, departments and agencies, with a view to addressing impediments to effective non-oil revenue generation, identifying hidden revenue sources and articulating best practices for non-oil revenue profile.

Danbatta, a Professor of Telecommunications Engineering is also expected to share with the participants, the   NCC’s experience, as one of the few Federal Government agencies, which have made significant progress towards non-oil revenue generation.

The NCC, which recently emerged African Regulator of the year at African Information Technology and Telecoms Awards (AITTA) in Ghana, has remitted N70 billon to the federation account in the last one year of Danbatta’s stewardship.

This, is in addition to the N 30 billion paid by MTN Nigeria Communications Limited as a part payment of the N330billion fine slammed by the Commission and $96 million paid by same company for 5 MHz  of 6 slots of  30MHz in the  2.6GHz Band.

Under his leadership, the NCC also emerged winner of the European Award for Best Practices 2016. The award ceremony, which held in Brussels, Belgium, was hosted by the European Society for Quality Research (ESQR), an affiliate of the European Union (EU).

No fewer than 63 countries participated in the award ceremony out of which the NCC won the European Award for Best Practices 2016.  The award which is the Gold category is “in recognition of its outstanding commitment, support and results in quality management strategies.”