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THE Nigerian Telecommunications regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, is leading the industry in mopping up support for the 2023 edition of the ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue scheduled at the prestigious Welcome Centre Hotels, Mohammed Murtala International Airport Road, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday.
Even as skillful professionals drawn from National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, National Association of Telecoms Subscribers, NATCOMS, Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria, EHORECON, and E-Waste Producer Responsibility Organisation of Nigeria, EPRON, to name a few, have queued up to analyze the theme of the dialogue “You can recycle anything with a plug, battery and cables.”
The Editor-in-Chief, ITREALMS Media Group, Remmy Nweke, said in Lagos that the ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue, slated for Friday, December 15, 2023 at Welcome Centre Hotels, Lagos, would have the Executive Vice Chairman, EVC, of NCC, Aminu Maida, to deliver a keynote address at the event.
Maida’s keynote, he disclosed, would focus on ‘NCC: Recycling plug, battery & cable in telecoms sector.” while NATCOMS national president, Deolu Ogunbanjo, would share insight on “The Place of Telecoms Consumers” on the main theme.
Nweke pointed out that the importance of tackling electronic waste in the country cannot be over-emphasised, and that with the introduction and deployment of 5G in the country, more devices and appliances are expected to bring out an influx of electronic devices and usage.
Recalling that the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE, emanates from the likes of mobile phones, computers, TV-sets, and fridges among other electronic devices have become a set of fastest growing waste streams across the globe, just as small as the plugs, batteries and cables constitute e-waste.
Nweke also noted that the newly appointed Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, NCC, was appointed by President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 and holds MEng in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College, London in 2002, and in 2006, he bagged a PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath, United Kingdom.
In between 2018 and 2019, Maida completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship (FinTech Pathway) programme at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
And until his latest appointment by the President, Dr. Maida was the Executive Director, Technology and operations at Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS), the country’s central switch company owned by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and all licensed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in Nigeria.
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-December 13, 2023 @ 18:02 GMT|
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