By Emmanuel Elebeke

ABUJA—The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC and the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, NLRC has signed the revised Memorandum of Understanding, MoU on electronic lottery system in the country.

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The MoU is expected to empower Nigerian telecommunication service Consumer who may be among the many that will participate in the lottery that are going to be hosted on telecommunications networks by the NLRC.

The two Commissions have an existing MoU since 2011, and deemed it appropriate to review the MoU in line with a provision that stipulate doing the renewal every four years.

In his remarks after signing the document on behalf of NCC, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta said, the agreement rhymed in two places of the eight Point agenda of the NCC in the area of strategic collaboration and partnership with other agencies of government and in the area of protecting and empowering the consumer.

He, however, explained that the NCC got involved because the service about to be introduced will add additional burden to the network, adding that the Commission was concerned that any burden on the telecommunication’s infrastructure may conspire to degrade quality of service.

‘‘In fact, by signing the MoU, we are giving life to that item of our eight point agenda. The whole idea is to cooperate in order to provide the environment, with facilities so to speak for the lottery commission to host lotteries in the country and because lotteries all over the world are electronically driven.”