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Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC's over N70 billion revenue earning in the last one year has earned its Executive Vice-Chairman, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, a slot  among  heads of key government’s agencies invited to make a presentation at a two-day retreat on enhancing revenue generation in the country. The retreat, geared towards sensitizing stakeholders on the funding of the 2016 Budget, holds from July 13 to 15, 2016 in Kano State.

 The retreat organized by the Federal Ministry of Finance, is expected to feature technical presentations from relevant ministries, departments and agencies, with a view to addressing impediments to effective non-oil revenue generation, identifying hidden revenue sources and articulating best practices for non-oil revenue profile.

 Danbatta, a Professor of Telecommunications Engineering is also expected to share with the participants,  NCC’s experience, as one of the few Federal Government’s agencies, which have made significant progress towards non-oil revenue generation.

 Theledgerng.com reports that NCC under Danbatta's watch has remitted N70 billon to the Federation Account in the last one year to the Federation Account. The Commission recently emerged African Regulator of the year at African Information Technology and Telecoms Awards (AITTA) in Ghana.

 According to the Commission, the revenues comprises the  N30 billion paid by MTN Nigeria Communications Limited as a part payment of the N330 billion fine slammed on it by the Commission and  $96 million paid by the company for 5MHz  of 6 slots of  30MHz in the  2.6GHz band.

Danbatta's management style has also raised  NCC's profile as it recently emerged  winner of the European Award for Best Practices 2016. The award ceremony, which held in Brussels, Belgium, was hosted by the European Society for Quality Research (ESQR), an affiliate of the European Union (EU).

 Mallam Yakubu Musa, Special Assistant to the EVC stated that the event attracted no fewer than 63 participating countries, but  NCC  emerged tops to win the European Award for Best Practices 2016, which is the Gold category in “recognition of its outstanding commitment, support and results in quality management strategies.”