Nigeria’s Postmaster General Dr Ismail Adebayo Adewusi, has signed a partnership agreement with operators of eGate and Visa to facilitate digital financial services, issuing of payment cards and support financial inclusion across Nigeria. The initiative targets about 38 million adult Nigerians who are completely financially excluded. Adewusi who revealed this […]
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Nigeria has given its approval to Elon Musk’s Starlink, a SpaceX-operated satellite broadband constellation that would provide satellite Internet access to 32 countries. Elon Must, the world’s wealthiest person, tweeted this. The Nigerian Communication Commission, or NCC, has confirmed. Starlink connects people all around the world with high-speed, low-latency broadband […]
Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has congratulated Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, on his appointment by the International Telecommunication Union as Chairman of the WSIS Forum in 2022. (ITU). The Minister’s appointment as chair of the […]
PRESS RELEASE Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has been named Chairman of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2022 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The meeting will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, at the ITU headquarters. Professor Pantami was appointed “in light of his overall commitment […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has verified the issuing of final letters of award of Fifth Generation (5G) Spectrum Licences to MTN and Mafab Communications, the winners of the Commission’s 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum auction on Monday, December 13, 2021. The Commission’s Management, chaired by EVC Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, […]
The first quarter of 2022 saw a fall in YouTube ad revenue, which rose 46 percent for the full year 2021. YouTube advertising sales increased 14% in the first three months of 2022, to $6.87 billion, below Wall Street projections by more than $600 million and signaling a significant slowdown […]
The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), the umbrella organization for all information technology (IT) professionals in Nigeria, has urged for the creation of IT departments in federal, state, and local government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs). During a conversation with news journalists in Lagos, Professor Adesina Sodiya, President of NCS, emphasized […]
In support of Nigeria’s digital transformation program, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Google Global Services Nigeria have stated their commitment to collaborate in order to achieve the national targets for ubiquitous broadband connectivity. This is in line with NCC’s strategic vision plan, which focuses on strategic partnerships and collaboration […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has emphasized the importance of telecommunications users in Nigeria ensuring effective infrastructure protection. At a sensitization workshop held in Wannune, Tarka Local Government Area, Benue State, the Commission stated that it is critical to maintain and improve the quality of service delivery by service providers. […]
A crypto exchange company headquartered in London, Luno, said it has now onboarded 10 million crypto users onto its platform. This milestone, means the company acquired 3 million users between last April—when it reached 7 million users—and now. This new number validates the increase of global adoption of crypto in […]