Nigerian business tycoon, Gen. TY Danjuma,
has been named Board Chairman by the
NatCom Development & Investment Limited
“NatCom”, trading as ntel.
has been named Board Chairman by the
NatCom Development & Investment Limited
“NatCom”, trading as ntel.
The announcement was made on Wednesday,
July, 2016 following General Danjuma’s
inaugural board meeting.
With General Danjuma as board chairman,
former chairman, Dr. Tunde Ayeni, becomes
Vice Chairman. Other members of the board
include Captain Idahosa Okunbo, Abiola Ayeni,
Kasheem Shettima, Philip Chukwu, Kola
Adesina, John Darlington, Dan Kunle,
Babatunde Omotoba and Kamar Abass.
General Danjuma, fondly known as ‘the green
general’ on account of his environmental
activism, has interests in oil and gas, banking
and shipping.
A respected environmentalist and
philanthropist, he was Chairman of Abuja Green
Society and through his own Danjuma
Foundation, established in 2009, passionately
supports poverty alleviation, education and
medical aid initiatives across Nigeria.
General Danjuma brings to the ntel board
robust commercial experience covering some
three decades in the public and private
sectors, following a successful career in the
army from where he retired as a three-star
General and Chief of Army Staff in 1980.
He also served as Minister of Defence in the
first term of the civilian administration of
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Commenting on this key addition to ntel’s
board, Kamar Abass, ntel’s CEO, remarked “we
are delighted to have a man of General TY
Danjuma’s standing join us. As our new
chairman, and as a shareholder, we welcome
his support as we add momentum to our
growth and development in Nigeria’s telecoms
industry. We expect to benefit enormously from
General Danjuma’s sterling leadership
credentials and, in this way, to build on the
excellent work of our immediate past chairman,
Dr. Tunde Ayeni, who positioned ntel to deliver
the leading Broadband experiences already
evidenced in Lagos and Abuja.”
ntel commenced commercial operations of its
4G/LTE-Advanced network on 08-04-16 in
Lagos and Abuja. Network services in Port
Harcourt are scheduled to commence early in
Q4. NatCom projects making investments
totalling more than $1billion by 2020.
ntel is Nigeria’s most advanced mobile 4G/
LTE network providing superfast Internet
Access that enables high-definition voice, data
and video services. ntel’s network is built on
the 900/1800 Mhz frequency bands which are
the best propagation frequencies for the
deployment of 4G/LTE technology.
ntel’s bouquet of services includes: National
Bandwidth; International Voice Termination,
International Bandwidth; Mobile and Fixed
Communications services.
The company made its first on-net test data
call in Lagos on Monday, January 18, 2016
and followed this with its first on-net Voice-
over-LTE (VoLTE) call in Lagos on Thursday,
February 25, 2016. Commercial operations
commenced on Friday April 8, 2016.
