Nigerians have been urged to imbibe reading culture in their daily activities for better knowledge and information.
The Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Professor Garba Danbatta made the call at the 2021 NCC Library/Museum Day in Abuja Nigeria’s capital.
He explained that the library was a learning resource, which was assessed by its level of currency in its quality, quantity and variety of the stock.
Professor Danbatta emphasized that an important component of the library resource was the e-section, which allows link up and access to more databases for information electronically.
The library is a learning resource. The stock of a library is normally assessed by its level of currency, what is the quality, quantity, variety of the stock. We must be able to embark on assessing the whole thing.
“An important component of the library resource is the e-section. The e-section is the section that allows you to link up and access more databases for information. When we assess the library, we pay careful attention to the ability of users to access more databases electronically.
“What is crucial is for you to be able to sight a reference that is credible. The library is a component of the entire learning process.
The NCC Boss therefore urged the Commission to continue to seek ways to maximise the library resource in meeting its mandate and expanding knowledge and information.
“I believe the outcome of today’s event will help change our reading culture, if you don’t have a reading culture, please try and acquire one, it is very important to read. It will motivate us to have a critical look of innovations,” He added.
Meanwhile, speaking on the Museum Day with the theme: “The Future of Museum, Recover and Re-Emerging” Professor Danbatta explained that it captured the purpose of the Commission’s special Museum dedicated to telecommunications industry.
He restated that it was important to collect, exhibit and conserve telecommunications items to enlighten and educate stakeholders.
“Museums generally play important roles in the society by observing the past and appreciate the future through providing insight into the history of a people and educating a future of generations.
The Director General, National Commission forMuseums and Monuments, Nigeria (NCMM), Mr. Abba Isa -Tijani, affirmed that Museums play a crucial role in preserving local culture with careful documentation and artifact preservation of institutions and sectors.
Mr.Isa-Tijani, represented by the Assistant Director Museums, Mrs Kilba Zainab-Uche, maintained that that the Museum sector must move with new trends of technology development, adding that the traditional role and aspect of museums cannot be undermined.
“The NCC has a museum where significant and historical telecommunications objects are exhibited this is historic”
“So the new role of museums in the digital era is till emerging. The Museum has not yet gone completely digital because there is the need to converge both the new and traditional.
“If the traditional role is completely phased out, it will create a problem because from time to time you will have to go back to your past in order to know where you are in the present and to forge ahead.”
He also applauded the NCC for setting the standards for other institutions and pledged to support the Commission whenever the need arises.
Deputy Director, Consumer Affairs Bureau (CAB) of the Commission, Safiya Jiji made a presentation on telecom consumer expectations and the role of NCC as the regulatory authority for telecommunications in Nigeria.
Stakeholders were taken around for a tour to the telecom museum and library where old scientific, artistic and cultural objects and telecommunication artifacts at the museum in the order of their historical evolution and use in Nigeria, from postal to telegraphy, to analog and then the modern digital telephony.
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