The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) says over 100 million Subscribers’ Identity Module (SIM) has been produced locally within a year of the first Nigeria Telecommunications Indigenous Content Expo.

This was disclosed by Aderonke Sola-Ogunsola, NCC’s head of financing and stakeholders engagement team, at this year’s AFRICANXT on Thursday in Lagos.

Ms Sola-Ogunsola said through the Nigeria Telecommunications Indigenous Content of the NCC, the country could serve as a manufacturer of SIM in West Africa.

According to her, various telecommunications companies ordered over 100 million SIMs, ending the importation of SIM and attaining a fully digital economy in Nigeria.

NCC’s head of digital skills and services, Freda Bruce-Bennett, said out of seven unicorns in Africa, Nigeria has five (Andela, Flutterwave, Interswitch, Jumia and Opay). According to her, NCC is working with campuses and the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) on how youths could build their capacity.

Abraham Oshadami, NCC’s head of spectrum administration, said the digital economy could not exist without infrastructure because, globally, infrastructure was the bedrock for adequate broadband penetration.

Mr Oshadami added that Nigeria had taken the lead by providing wireless resources because there were policies to deploy the infrastructure and make them work.

According to him, Nigeria has done well in Africa by being at the forefront of making resources available to provide high dosed broadband leveraging satellite and technology.

(NAN)