By our Reporter
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, disclosed to the House of Assembly, that less than half of the polling stations in Nigeria has the capacity for the transmission of election results electronically.
NCC said this in response to the invitation by the House, on Thursday, that the NCC briesf it on the nation’s network coverage before continuing debate on the contentious provision of electronic transmission of results during elections.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says less than 50 per cent of polling units in Nigeria have the needed network coverage for the transmission of election results.
A representative of the Commission, Adeleke Adewolu, while briefing the House on Friday admitted that less than 50per cent of the polling units have the needed network coverage for electronic transmission of election results.
Mr Adewolu told the House that less than 50 per cent of the polling units in Nigeria have 3G coverage for transmission of results.
The Commissioner, Technical Services, Ubale Maska, while responding to a question from Akeem Adeyemi (APC, Oyo), on nationwide service coverage, said the NCC conducted a system survey in 2018.
According to Mr Maska, 50.3 per cent of the 109,000 polling units out of 119,000 polling units surveyed have 3G network facilities, others have 2G network, while many more are without coverage.