Executive summary ICT has been acknowledged to be one of the most critical tools underpinning socio economic development in the 21st century. Its global importance has led to numerous countries transforming their ICT sectors to lend support to other critical sectors in terms of efficiency, productivity and transparency, thus aiding job creation, better governance and overall socio economic development. Nigeria has embarked upon this path and during 2011 created the Ministry of Communication Technology to ensure better coordination of ICT activities and development in Nigeria. This National ICT Policy lays out the inputs required to strengthen all productive sectors and ultimately transform Nigeria into a knowledge based, and globally competitive country, in alignment with the National Vision 20:20 objectives. It establishes a comprehensive framework for the ICT sector that will encourage and stimulate investment and also enable rapid expansion of ICT networks and services that are accessible to all at reasonable costs. To ensure inclusiveness, the policy is the product of broad based consultation drawn from the public and private sectors & academia, critical analysis of the regulatory and legal environment, evaluation of institutional framework models, and an assessment of other pertinent realities of the ICT development in Nigeria over recent years, especially following liberalization of the telecommunications sector in 1999. As the services delivered across ICT systems, applications and tools increasingly leverage the same technical resources; there has been a global evolution towards convergence in order to ensure holistic management of scarce resources and to strengthen independent regulatory oversight. This ICT policy therefore has convergence of regulatory activities across Telecommunications, Broadcasting, IT, and Postal services, as one of the critical pillars of ICT sector development. The sector has witnessed the fused discharge of both regulatory and development activities across critical subsectors, which has led to suboptimal performance in many respects. The policy therefore addresses a clearer delineation of duties, specializations and focus. With respect to broadcasting a clear distinction is made !"#$%&"'()*+(,%'$-.(/(0120( ( ( ,"34(0(