Previously, the minister of communication and digital economy, Prof Isa Ibrahim Pantami announced that the work on the national policy on fifth generation mobile network deployment stands at 95 per cent done and will be presented to the FEC in due course.
This indeed, is a welcome development, as some citizens were sceptical about the 5G technology following the rumours that claimed 5G network was responsible for the spread of COVID-19 pandemic last year.A chemical seller at Ojota market in Lagos, Mr Joseph Ekenne, told me, “I came to realise that if 3G and 4G didn’t cause any issue, why should 5G cause health issues, or fuel COVID-19? I have done my research about 5G, almost all the advanced countries have deployed the technology.