President promises implementation of national broadband plan

[PeoplesDaily]

President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged readiness of his administration to implement report of the Presidential Jonathan spoke yesterday after receiving the report which was jointly presented to him by the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, and the co-Chairmen of the Committee, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe and Mr. Jim Ovia.

Jonathan said that he was confident that the successful implementation of the National Broadband Strategy and Roadmap would help to revolutionize communications in Nigeria.

"Any country that lags behind in the current age of ICT will miss a lot," Jonathan said, adding that, "that is why we have created a separate Ministry of Communications Technology to facilitate the establishment of the best digital communications infrastructure in Nigeria and optimize our adoption of global best practices in the use of information and communications technology.

"I thank you for your work and I assure you that the report will be adopted by government and implementation will begin immediately because our people are hungry for information and we are in a hurry to fully integrate our country into the digital communications age," the President told members of the committee.

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