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Melaye To Ndukwe

“There was even an ad-hoc committee that was set up to investigate NCC but at the end of the day there was no result. I want to assure Nigerians that this time around, money will have no power, intimidation will have no place, threats will have no capacity to stop us from addressing this very serious problem that has bedeviled our telecommunications industry.”

-Honourable Dino Melaye expressing his resolve to move a motion for the removal of Engr. Ernest Ndukwe as EVC of the NCC.

“We need to re-define our relationship in the context of the emerging new globalization; a situation where we sheepishly open our doors to all sort of imported junks from China and India to the detriment of local factories should be reviewed. We are still lackadaisical and ad-hoc in our approach to the development of ICT in Nigeria.”

-Tim Akano, managing director of New Horizons Computer Training Institute on the likely impact of the ongoing global recession in Nigeria

“We do not know how to give bribes or receive bribes. I was not even in the country when this matter came up. I cannot imagine how any person from the NCC would start offering any pecuniary incentives to anybody. So, I can tell you for sure that nothing like that ever happened, or will ever happen.”

-Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe denying allegations of bribery leveled against him by Hon Dino Melaye

“With a capacity that is several multiples of what is currently available on the West Coast, Main One Cable promises to bring the cost of international bandwidth to levels that are globally competitive. We will provide wholesale connectivity between our Lagos or Accra cable stations and London, UK at prices that are at 10-20% of what is currently paid for such services.” -CEO of Main One Cable Company, Ms. Funke Opeke on what impact the Main One Cable project will have on the continent of Africa

		“The preference for foreign goods is a fad that feeds on the cultural inferiority complex of a colonized people. We have other people to look up to. We must take a look at China and India and copy their models if Nigeria must emerge the black power that the world is expecting.” -Chief Leo Stan Ekeh, Chairman of Zinox Technologies Limited on how to ensure a Computer on every Nigerian table