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Five states in Nigeria, including Borno, Yobe, Zamfara, Taraba and Sokoto, have the highest number of communities without any basic telephony services.
As at October, the country had 285 million connected telephone lines, out of which 207 million were active. However, about 30 million, according to the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, who reside in some 115 communities, have not had access to basic telephony services.
These gaps identified by Danbatta, were confirmed in a report by the Commission, which ranked Borno as the state with the highest access gaps of 83.41 per cent in the country