The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to commercialise some of its ICT infrastructures as part of an overall business plan to expand the portfolio of services by the oil giant as well as assist in helping the country to achieve her National Broadband Plan (NBP). The NBP targets a 30% broadband penetration by 2020.

This was made public by the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru during a meeting held recently at the NNPC Towers in Abuja with the Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu.

According to him, the ICT infrastructure up for commercialization include over 960 kilometres of fiber optic cable laid between Lagos, Benin, Warri, and to Kaduna on the NNPC pipeline Right of Way (ROW), 52 remote Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) stations nationwide and two network centres connecting all NNPC depots and pump stations in Nigeria.

“Our look-ahead plan is to commercialise our fibre optics cable network utilising NNPC pipeline Right of Way that cuts across the entire country. Some of the benefits of this initiative include the opportunity to provide backbone carriage to meet the national 2020 plan for broadband penetration in the country,” Baru said.

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