Senator Chris Ngige to appear before House of Representatives over job losses in telecommunication sector

   Minister of labour and productivity, Senator Chris Ngige, is being summoned to appear before the House of Representatives over the spate of job losses in leading mobile network operators in the country.
   The  ad-hoc committee of the House investigating operational activities of telecommunications equipment and service companies and vendors in Nigeria, expressed readiness to interface with Ngige within the next ten days to explore avenues of redressing the trend.
   Also, the executive chairman of the Nigerian Telecommunications Commission, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has expressed concern over spate of job losses in the telecommunications sector of the economy, but argued that there was little or nothing the NCC could do to save the situation in view of the provision of the NCC Act.
   Dambatta, however, urged the lawmakers to approach the labour ministry which has the mandate to wade into the sack of tens of hundreds of workers in the industry.