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Executive Vice Chairmen/CEOs of the NCC
Professor. Umar G. Danbatta
Executive Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (2015 - 2023)
Dr. Eugene I. Juwah
Executive Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (2010 - 2015)
Engr. Ernest C. A. Ndukwe
Executive Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (2000 - 2010)
Engr. E. C. Nnama
Executive Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (1999 - 2000)
Chief C. O. Iromantu
Executive Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (1993 - 1999)
Chairmen of the NCC
Engr. O. Oyeleye
Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission
Alhaji Ahmed Joda
Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (2000 - 2010)
Mr. Peter Igoh
Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (2010 - 2015)
Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye
Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (2016 - 2020)
Ministers of Communication
Mr. Arthur Prest (Minister for Communications, 1951 - 1954)
Dr. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe (Minister for Communications, 1954 - 1957)
Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola (Hon. Minister of Communications, 1957 - 1959)
Chief Olu Akinfosile (Hon. Minister for Communications, 1959 - 1964)
Malam Aminu Kano (Commissioner for Communications, 1966 - 1969)
Mr. Joseph Sarwan Tarka (Commissioner for Communications, 1969 - 1972)
Major General Ramat M. Muhammed (Commissioner for Communications, 1972 - 1975)
Mr. S. O. Williams (Commissioner for Communications 1975 - 1977)
Dr. Oberu Aribia (Commissioner for Communications, 1977 - 1979)
Alhaji Akanbi Mahmud Oniyangi (Minister for Communications, 1979 - 1981)
Chief Eteng Okoi Obuli (Minister of Communications, 1979 - 1982)
Dr. U. I. Okon (Hon. Minister for Communications, 1982 - 1982)
Mr. Audu Ogbe (Minister for Communications, 1982 - 1983)
Mr. Isaac Shaahu (Minister for Communications,1982 - 1983)
Alhaji Hamizu Musa (Minister of Postal Services, October - December 1983)
Chief Emmanuel Adiele (Minister for Communications, October - December 1983)
Lt. Colonel Ahmed A. Abdullahi (Minister for Communications and Chairman NITEL Board of Directors, January 1984 - 1985)
Colonel A. T. Ayuba PSC, FSS (Minister of Communications, August 1985 - December 1987)
Colonel D. A. B. Mark (Minister of Communications, January 1988 - June 1990)
Engr. Olawale A. Ige MFR (Hon. Minister of Communications, June 1990 - January 1993)
cations, January 1993 - August 1993)
Chief Oluwole Adeosun (Secretary for Transport and Communications, January 1993 - August 1993)
Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Rimi (Minister of Communications, December 1993 - February 1995)
Major General A. T. Olarenwaju DSS, PSC (+) nde (Minister of Communications, March 1995 - November 1997)
Air Vice Marshal CE Umenwaliri DSS, MSS, FSS, DSC, MNUM (Hon. Minister for Communications, August 1998 - 1999)
Alhaji Haruna Elewi (Minister of State for Communications, June 1999)
Alhaji Mohammed Arzika (Minister of Communications, June 1999 - June 2001)
Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed (Minister of Communications, June 2001 - 2003)
Chief Cornelinus O. Adebayo (Minister of Communications, 2003 - September, 2006)
Engr. Dr. Obafemi Ani-Baba (Minister of Communications, September 2006 - May 2007)
John Odey (Hon. Minister of Information & Communications, July 26, 2007 - December 17, 2008)
Prof. Dora N. Akunyili (Hon. Minister of Information and Communications, December 17, 2008 - December 15, 2010)
Labaran Maku (Hon. Minister of Information and Communications, April 6th, 2010 - May, 2011)
Mrs. Omobola Johnson (Hon. Minister of Communications, May, 2011 - )
Telecommunications Relics
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Intermediate Distribution Frame of Transmission Equipment
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Photograph of workers at work at the Lagos Central Telegraph Office (Date: 19th May, 1960)
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Colonial Phone Booth At Calabar Museum
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Nigeria National Telex / Gentex Network
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Alcatel Transmission Equipment
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The Engineer explaining a point shortly after the commissioning of the call office
The Engineer explaining a point shortly after the commissioning of the call office and the automatic exchange at Otan Ayegbaju and Ilesa by Hon. Akinfosile (Date: 11th January, 1963)
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Technicians at P and T Training School Oshodi at work. (Date: 20th August, 1956)
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EWSD Switching Equipment
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Photograph of Teleprinter at P and T Training School Oshodi (Date: 29th October, 1959)
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Visit of the Members of Advisory Council to Post and Telegraph Department, Lagos (Date: 29th April, 1959)
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Siemens PDH Transmission Equipment
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Digital Main Distribution Frame
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EWSD Switching Equipment (Second Photo)
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The Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa at his residence
The Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa at his residence, making inaugural call during the official commissioning of telephone link between Nigeria and Togo (Date: 4th September, 1962)
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Typical 17KVA Generator Set for a Repeater Station
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P and T Telephone Operator at work (Date: 4/2/1958)
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Oki Transmission Equipment
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The old telecommunication wires used to provide telephony services to Nigerian users
The old telecommunication wires used to provide telephony services to Nigerian users in the 1980's and 1990's. These wires have now been replaced with wireless connections to base stations, nationwide.
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Sir. James Robertson (Left) and Dr. K. O. Mbadiwe shortly after the official commissioning of an exchange (Date: 20/4/1956)
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20th August, 1956
Technician at work at P and T Technical Training School Oshodi
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Oscilloscope (Transmission Measuring Equipment)
Digital Technology
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Cordless PBX
A Cordless PBX (private branch exchange) systems business phone systems are specially designed systems that link the internal phone system of a company to the public telephone network. It gives individuals the flexibility to move freely around the office without the fear of missing a call. Cordless business phone systems include cordless handsets, interconnectivity and other facilities such as voice mail, call forwarding and caller ID. Generally, cordless business phone systems are used in small business establishments and home offices. Cordless business phone systems are available mainly in three different kinds - private branch exchange (PBX) systems, key systems, and KSU-less phone systems. The inventor of the cordless phone was a musician, named Teri Pall. She invented the device in the year 1965. The phone was only able to function at a low frequency of about 49 MHz and only worked in small spaces.
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Digital Card Phone
This is a public payphone which is often located in a phone booth or a privacy hood, with pre-payment by inserting a pre-paid telephone card, a credit or debit card, or money (usually coins). Payphones are often found in public places, transportation hubs such as airports or train stations, convenience stores, malls, casinos, and on street corners. Some payphones, particularly at gas stations, are mounted in drive-up structures that can be used without leaving the vehicle. In particular, payphones are useful for foreign or generally non-local travellers who need to place local calls, as well as those who simply don't like mobile phones. AT&T introduced "Charge-a-Call," a "coinless" pay phone, in 1978 (and the term "pay phone" began to replace "coin phone").
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Fibre Optic Telecom Cable
Fibre optic cable is a cable made of optical fibres that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light. Thus, Fibre-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fibre.An optical fibre or optical fibre is a thin, flexible, transparent fibre that acts as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fibre. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibres is known as fibre optics (or fibre optics). Optical fibres are widely used in fibre-optic communications, which permits transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data rates) than other forms of communication. In 1952, UK based physicist Narinder Singh Kapany invented the first actual fiber optical cable based on John Tyndall s experiments three decades earlier.
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1990's Digital Dial Telephone
Until recently all telephones were analogue. That is, the audio signal is completely processed via analogue technology rather than digital. Now, some phones are "digital" and they use a digital signal (like a computer) that represents the sound.The 1990 s Digital Dial telephones are frequently used in offices where the digital functions support voicemail and many other computer-like operations in addition to the actual processing of the audio signal. These digital phones used in offices still receive an analogue signal from the phone line, but process it and handle the other new functions digitally.Although these digital phone systems are new and have a lot of neat features, they also present problems for people with hearing loss. For example, you cannot use certain patch cords or FM systems which plug into the phone jack of an analog phone to link your hearing aid to the phone.
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Nokia 190
The Nokia 190 was released in 1990. It is popularly called NOKIA Cityman 190 and it was Nokia's first hand held mobile phone with a monochrome screen type. The technology was based on Total Access Communication System (TACS) and ETACS are mostly-obsolete variants of AMPS which were used in some European countries (including the UK & Ireland in 1983). What distinguished the Nokia Cityman from its competitors at that time was the design. Smaller and lighter than the Motorola 8000 series, the Nokia Cityman was packaged in a neat functional box in dark matt grey. TACS and ETACS are now obsolete, having been replaced by the GSM system.
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Proximity T800 Telephone
Nortel's Proximity T800 MHz terminal made in the 1990 s operates in analogue or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) digital mode, and can be used to provide local phone service as an adjunct to existing mobile cellular services. Proximity T base stations can serve several thousand subscribers over a distance of more than 20 miles, can be connected to any Class 5 central office switch, including Nortel's Defence Message System (DMS) family of wireline and wireless switches.
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Haier Mobile C5000
Haier Mobile C5000 is a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) bar mobile phone that operates at frequencies of CDMA 1x800MHZ weighing 80g with 1.5" Display, FM Radio, Incoming Call Black List, One Touch Vibration, Loudspeaker, 3 way calling and a talk time of 3 hours. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) introduced in 1990s is a mobile communications technology that permits many signals to travel on the same frequency. The result is a cost-effective network of communication requiring less points of communication than its contemporary TDMA (time division multiple access). With CDMA technology, data and voice packets are separated using codes and then transmitted using a wide frequency range. A number of CDMA private telephone operators in Nigeria, example, VISAFONE, uses this model of mobile phone.
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Nokia 620 (Talkman)
Nokia 620 (Talkman) was announced in 1991 and has the basic functions such as power signal received from the base station network, Keyboard and display lighting, Duration of the call (call), Auto power off function, Volume control keyboard signals, Adjustable keyboard sound, Check the remaining battery, 8Transmitter power control, Selection of country code, Set the block level, Transfer call to another handset, Pause, Memory, Multi-part transmission in the NMT system, Last number redial, Lock keypad, Clear Display, Select characters during conversation, Display angle settings.
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Nokia 101
Nokia 101 was launched in 1992 and comes in both CDMA and GSM technology. The Nokia 101 was the first phone which showed Nokia's distinctive approach to mobile phone design and the reason for the company's long term success. The Nokia 101 was designed to put the mouth and earpieces at a comfortable distance; a consideration which later inspired the look of the famous Matrix phone, the Nokia 8110. The Nokia 101 also had a large screen. Nokia built upon this feature in the 90s as mobiles increased in their sophistication and there was more information to display. The menu system in the 101 was designed to be intuitive and easy to learn. This model was replaced by NOKIA 2110 in 1994.
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Nokia 121
In 1992 Nokia announced a revision of the 101, the NOKIA 121, which had more features aimed specifically at business users.
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NOKIA 232
NOKIA 232 was launched in 1994. Frank Nuovo designed the 232 for Nokia. He designed the 232 to be futuristic, but nevertheless true to Nokia's tradition of form follows function. The 232 was a neat, small design for style conscious customers. Technically the Nokia 232 was also impressive, with 16 hours of standby time and a 98 number memory when Nokia launched it in 1994. It was a consumer product rather than a business phone.
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Nokia Ringo
The Nokia Ringo original version was produced in 1996. The rinGo was an earnest attempt by Nokia to make a phone that was very easy to use. The original rinGo was certainly simple to use, or you could say devoid of features. It came in a grey/green colour and was pre-programmed to be ready to use out of the box. However, they went too far in their quest for simplicity. The rinGo became known as the Bimbo phone and women consumers in Sweden, in particular, reacted badly to it.An improved version came along in 1997, which combined the ˜accept and reject call buttons in one big oval shaped button. The new rinGo came with an integrated battery, an improved sleeker design and in a large range of colours.
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Dell Inspiron 5000
The Dell Inspiron 5000 series Laptop which was introduced by DELL Inc. of USA in the year 2000 started as a range of laptop computers targeted at the entry-level, budget; with a Mobile Intel Pentium 3 or Mobile Intel Celeron processor, megabyte random access memory (MB RAM), 15-inch liquid crystal display [LCD] with an internal diskette drive, removable hard-disk drive which store programs and pictures or music files, and swappable media bay device; An integrated MiniPCI socket for an optional internal modem which is used for internet connectivity. It comes with any of the Microsoft 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) operating system which automatically installs in Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) mode.
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BlackBerry (Curve)
This is a brand of entry level smartphones manufactured by Research In Motion since 2007. The BlackBerry Curve brand was introduced on May 3, 2007 with the Curve 8300 series. The Curve brand continued the "consumer-oriented" philosophy of the BlackBerry Pearl and 8800 series, including robust multimedia features and a high-resolution built-in camera. As is customary for BlackBerry devices, the 8300 series consists of several models offered by different wireless providers, supporting that provider's network along with specific services. This is known for its distinctive form factor; efficient, finger-friendly QWERTY keyboard, typical BlackBerry messaging capabilities.
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iPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPad runs Apple's iOS operating system. The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010.The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard rather than a physical one. The iPad has Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity (2G, 3G and 4G (third and fourth generations and iPad Mini only)).An iPad can shoot video, take photos, play music, send and receive email, and browse the web. Other functions games, reference, GPS navigation, social networking, etc. can be enabled by downloading apps. As at 2012, there are five variants of the iPad: the original, the iPad 2, the third generation, the fourth generation, and the iPad mini.
Telegraph Technology
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Telegram Machines
The idea for the electric telegraph was not thought up in a scientific laboratory, but on the deck of a sailing ship called the Scully, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The inventor was Samuel Finley Breese Morse, and in 1832, he was one of the most famous artists in the United States. In 1837, he developed his telegraph idea enough to test it. Morse strung seventeen hundred feet of wire around his room at New York University, where he taught. It worked; his signals travelled from one end of the wire to the other. Therefore, the "telegram" system used lines similar to telephone lines but did not use speech. It was used to send messages from one place to another by using electrical on/off signals, similar to the dots and dashes used in the Morse code. In Nigeria, the telegram was for many years the fastest means of sending and receiving important messages aside the telephone.
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Teleprinter T100
A Teleprinter (Teletypewriter, Teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical typewriter that is used to communicate typed messages from point to point and point to multipoint over a variety of communication channels that range from a simple electrical connection, such as a pair of wires, to the use of radio and microwave as the transmission medium. They could also serve as a command line interface to early mainframe computers and minicomputers, sending typed data to the computer with or without printed output, and printing the response from the computer. The teleprinter consists of a typewriter-like keyboard and a printer, powered by an electric motor. The two devices are coupled to the motor by clutches that are brought into operation automatically when required. A message is sent by typing on the keyboard. The teleprinter has evolved through a series of inventions by a number of engineers, including Royal Earl House, David Edward Hughes, Emile Baudot, Donald Murray, Charles Krum, Edward Kleinschmidt and Frederick G. Creed, between 1846 - 1924.
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Page Teleprinter
A Briton, Mr. Creed introduced the first.Page printing teleprinter in 1927. Earlier teleprinters used the 5-bit Baudot code (also known as ITA2). This limited the character set to 32 codes (25 = 32). One had to use a "FIGS" shift key to type numbers and special characters. Special versions of teleprinters had FIGS characters for specific applications, such as weather symbols for weather reports. Print quality was poor by modern standards. The Baudot code was used asynchronously with start and stop bits: the asynchronous code design was intimately linked with the start-stop electro-mechanical design of teleprinters. (Early systems had used synchronous codes, but were hard to synchronize mechanically). Example of this is the: 5 level (bit) Baudot code page printer.
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Morse Teleprinter Instrument
Morse Teleprinter Instrument or Code is a character encoding that was devised in 1835 by Samuel F. B. Morse, the creator of the electric telegraph. Currently, the most popular use of Morse code is by amateur radio operators, although it is no longer a requirement for amateur licensing in many countries. In the professional field, pilots and air traffic controllers are usually familiar with Morse code and require a basic understanding.
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Teleprinter Siemens and Halske
Siemens Teleprinter Model 100 Ser 1 was created in early 1960s and was used for Telex service. This is an exchange system such as Telex and TWX. These created a real-time circuit between two machines, so that anything typed on one machine appeared at the other end immediately. USA and UK systems had actual telephone dials; German systems did "dialing" via the keyboard.Teleprinter Model 100 Ser 1 (early 1960s) Used for Telex service.Teleprinter Model 100 Ser. 11 Later version with minor changes.
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Teleprinter T1000
LORENZ, the SIEMENS Company was one of the inventors of the German TELEX network. They started production of teleprinters at the end of the 1920's. Siemens T 1000 was created and was in use from 1976 to 1985. It has 5 level (bit) Baudot code page printer speed 50 - 100 baud (switchable) plastic type wheel printing mechanism. The first fully electronic teleprinter, available as ASR, KSR or RO version. There was also the PMOS logic controlled machine from the peak of the TELEX era.
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Teleprinter T1000S
This was an improved version of the model T1000 Siemens. T1000S was in use between 1985 -1990. It also has 5 level (bit) Baudot code page printer - - with speed of 50 to 100 baud (switchable), and has a plastic type wheel printing mechanism. It is available also with monitor and disc-memory.
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Teleprinter T1200BS
This Siemens T1200 was in use between 1986 and 1991. It also has 5 level (bit) Baudot code page printer of between speed 50 to 100 baud (switchable). It has a matrix printer and electronic memory. It is the last ever produced teleprinter model by Siemens. These machines were built in a time where Telefax already replaced the TELEX service. It is available in two main versions.
