{"id":374485,"date":"2021-07-16T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=374485"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:56:15","slug":"electronic-transmission-of-results-half-of-polling-units-dont-have-network-for-transmission-ncc-tells-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=374485","title":{"rendered":"Electronic transmission of results: Half of polling units don&#8217;t have network for transmission &#8211; NCC tells Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has told the House of Representatives that about 49 per cent of polling units in Nigeria are without a network.<\/p>\n<p>Ubale Maska, the NCC commissioner of technical, said the commission carried out a survey in 2018 of all the polling units in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Maska and three others represented the NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Umar Danbatta, who was unable to attend the session.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the consideration of the bill had ended in stalemate due to disagreement on section 52 of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila directed that the NCC and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should brief the House on the possibility of electronic transmission of results.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Maska said 40 per cent are with 2G while about 10 per cent are without network at all, noting that only 3G and above can transmit results.<\/p>\n<p>Following the presentation, the House erupted into another rowdy session, as the Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase resumed the consideration of the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has told the House of Representatives that about 49 per cent of polling units in Nigeria are without a network. Ubale Maska, the NCC commissioner of technical, said the commission carried out a survey in 2018 of all the polling units in Nigeria. Maska and three others represented the NCC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4876,1162],"class_list":["post-374485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-nass","tag-ncc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/374486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}