Obasanjo II / Yar'AduaExecutive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission· December 2000 — May 2010
Engr. Ernest Ndukwe
Architect of GSM telecommunications liberalisation in Nigeria.
The record
Ernest Ndukwe (b. 22 February 1952) presided over the GSM auctions of January 2001 — the Mobitel, Econet, MTN and Nitel digital mobile licences sold for $285m each — and the regulatory framework that took Nigeria from 400,000 connected lines in 2001 to over 80 million by 2010.
Sources
- NCC — GSM Auction Report, January 2001
- Nigerian Communications Act 2003
Methodology
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.