FG to unveil 5-year plan for digital economy

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has disclosed that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will on Tuesday unveil a five-year (2020-2025) Strategic Management Plan (SMP) in line with the objective of creating a seamless strategy to improve its management and regulation of the telecommunications sector in the country.

The SMP aims to leverage the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy and the new National Broadband Plan 2020-2025 Roadmaps. It will also embrace the guiding principles and serves as the operations manual for the NCC in actualising the digital economy agenda of the Nigerian government in the next five years.

“Essentially, the SMP which was developed in-house with the stamp of the Management and Board is a visioning document of the Commission for planning, monitoring, analysing and assessment of the Commissions goals and objectives in the next five (5) years.

“It will be resident in the Corporate Planning, Strategy and Risk Management Department which will ensure that the contents of the document become the guiding principles for the Commission in the next five years,” the document read in part.