The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, has disclosed that 11 states have responded to the federal government’s request to waive the charges for Right of Way (RoW) to facilitate broadband infrastructure expansion.
According to a statement from the Presidency, the Minister revealed this on Monday after President Bola Tinubu received the Digital Economy report of the participants of Senior Executive Course 46 National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru.
Part of the eight-point recommendations of the report include the need for the Federal Government to encourage states to waive the Right of Way fees on deployment of telecoms infrastructure.