The Senate has asked the Federal Government to suspend plans to deploy the 5G network technology in Nigeria till further notice.
The red chamber equally directed the Nigerian Communications Commission, and the Mobile Network Operators to put the exercise on hold for now to enable them to study the trend of 5G deployment across the world.
The Senate took the decision when it considered and passed the report of its Joint Committee on Science and Technology, ICT, Cyber Crime, and Primary Health Chaired by Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
The committee urged the NCC to, in collaboration with the Mobile Network Operators, Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Federal Ministry of Environment, and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, among others, locally conduct a scientific experimental study over a period of about six months to ascertain if a correlation existed between 5G networks and public health.