Nigerian Communications Commission NCC will on wednesday host Her Majesty Queen Maxima of The Netherlands, in her capacity as the Special Advocate of the United Nations Secretary General on Inclusive Finance for Development.
The Queen has served in this capacity since 2009 amplifying the voice of the UN for the democratization of access to "affordable, effective and safe financial services" to all.
Since early 2000, when financial exclusion was identified as a correlation to poverty and underdevelopment, the UN has raised the banner of awareness and instituted programs to ensure more persons globally are able to access "sound and safe" financial services at reasonable costs.
The NCC as the national regulatory authority for telecommunication services in Nigeria - in which capacity it has served as the superintendent of the technological infrastructure that have served as the superstructure of the emergent digital economy, has been one of the strategic stakeholders working with the Central Bank of Nigeria and others to implement Nigeria's National Financial Inclusion Strategy launched on October 23, 2012.
This explains why The Queen considers it appropriate to meet the Management of NCC to explore areas of collaboration in order to expand the frontiers of financial inclusion in Nigeria.
