NCC empowers over 100 persons with disabilities, digital skills in Lagos

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has trained implicit 100 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) successful Lagos State connected integer citizenship, cybersecurity, information extortion and assistive technologies, arsenic portion of its thrust to guarantee that disablement does not exclude Nigerians from opportunities successful the integer economy.

The participants received the grooming during a two-day Digital Citizenship Training for Persons with Disabilities held connected September 9 and 10, 2026, successful Lagos, nether the theme, “Empowering Persons with Disabilities Through Digital Citizenship for an Inclusive Digital Economy.”

The programme exposed participants to integer foundations, net and integer communication, cybersecurity basics, information protection, assistive technologies and liable information successful the integer space.

For galore of the participants, however, the grooming went beyond learning however to run integer tools. It changed however they understood their safety, independency and spot successful an progressively integer society.

Participants spoke astir learning to support their idiosyncratic data, place giveaway and different online scams, and debar disclosing delicate accusation to chartless persons online. Others discovered accessibility features, including speech-to-text tools, that could marque mundane usage of their mobile devices easier and much i...