250m fake phones sold in Nigeria yearly –NCC

From Walter Ukaegbu, AbujaNEWLY appointed acting Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof.Umaru G. Danbata, has lamented that counterfeiting of ICT devices was beginning to create a huge economic problem affecting a wide range of products in the country.

Danbata who said that mobile phones are especially targeted, with some 250 million counterfeit sold annually, spoke during stakeholders meeting on “Com­bating Counterfeit and Substandard ICT Devices” in Abuja, last week.