To enhance regulatory alignment and knowledge sharing, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Communications Authority of Ghana (NCA) held a high-level bilateral meeting in Accra on 8 May 2025. It was part of a two-day benchmarking mission by the delegation from the NCC, which was undertaken to increase regulatory alignment and jointly address sectoral challenges. The session was useful in allowing the regulators to deliberate on issues that were of concern to them, such as Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring, consumer protection, telecom infrastructure security, and cybersecurity resilience. In addition, they considered the practical aspects of ECOWAS Free Roaming, cross-border oversight of multinational operators, and capacity building for national regulators.
During the visit, a reconnaissance was carried out by the NCC delegation, under the leadership of Executive Vice Chairman Dr Aminu Maida, into the regulatory infrastructure of NCA. This included a visit to the Communications Monitoring Centre (CMC), which supervises network performances almost in real-time throughout the country, and the Common Platform, a common regulatory tool used to monitor financial performance by licensed operators.NCA also briefed the delegation on its advancement towards implementing regional roaming agreements with Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, and Benin, with The Gambia in the trial stage. NCA recognised Nigeria as a strategic partner because of the huge volume of traffic and trade flows between the two countries.
Thereafter, NCC presented some of its accomplishments, such as implementing the NIN-SIM linkage policy, operationalising a national telecoms incident reporting platform, and developing frameworks for measuring consumer satisfaction and operator compliance. The Commission also disclosed the designation of telecom infrastructure as Critical National Information Infrastructure by a Presidential Order and the implementation of the tariff simplification guidelines.
The visit provided an opportunity to reiterate mutual commitment to a structured, evolving engagement. Such an initiative between the two indicates the increased momentum towards integrated, data-centric, and citizen-centric regulation within the ECOWAS region. Both commissions reiterated enhanced cooperation among themselves in institutional linkages, harmonised approaches to regulation, and the buildup of a resilient digital ecosystem across West Africa.
