The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) for its eNaira to enhance financial inclusion in the country. The CBN Governor, GodwinEmefiele said this during the inauguration of the USSD transaction code at a 5-day Northern eNaira fair, Kano 2022. The theme of...
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By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has applauded consistent growth in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) contributions to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which hit 17.92 per cent in the last quarter of 2020, and in the first...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Executive Vice Chairman/ CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Professor Umar Garba Danbatta has called on Nigerians to explore opportunities in the Digital Economy to eradicate poverty in the country. Professor Danbatta made the call on Thursday while addressing the 9th Lagos Public Relations...
A meeting between the Federal government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU ended in a deadlock on Tuesday August 16, with no end in sight to the lingering strike by the academic union. The striking lecturers met with the Professor Nimi Briggs committee on Tuesday...
The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), an NGO, has urged the Federal Government to shelve the planned 5.5 per cent increase in the services in the telecommunication sector. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Finance Budget and National Planning Minister Zainab Ahmed, during a stakeholders’...
By OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja – The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) on Tuesday said the country’s broadband usage has continued on the rise, moving up from 40.9 per cent in February 2022 to 44.5 per cent in July 2022, a figure considered hopeful for achieving the national broadband target of...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Federal Government has commended the leadership of the Nigerian Communications Commission for the remarkable strides of the agency that has earned spectacular international reputation for Nigeria and placed the telecom regulator in the forefront of the nation’s quest for forward looking national economic...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun, has called on Nigerian citizens to take responsibility for the protection of telecom infrastructures for mutual benefit of all. The monarch made the call through the Ayingun Olubadan of Ibadanland, Chief Ademola Odunade, at the Village Square...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has committed over N500 million to the Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions across the country to facilitate research and innovations to promote developments in the Nigerian telecommunications industry. Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who disclosed this at a two-day...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Federal Government on Thursday said Nigerian subscribers would start paying 5% tax on every call, SMS, data and other telecommunication services. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, announced this during a stakeholders forum organized by the Nigeria Communication Commission...
A book review By YUSHAU A. SHUAIB I have always admired the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami for his solid intellection and painstaking understanding of his brief in public service, alongside his charismatic and pragmatic efforts in governance. As a pioneer in government,...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has faulted and rejected the NITDA’s Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries, describing it as another attempt by the Government to gag the media and suppress press freedom in Nigeria. It also described the...
The Nigerian Communications Commission’s support for sports development, with particular reference to the popular NCC sponsored tennis championship for youth, dominated discussions at the launch of a book on sports in Nigeria in Lagos at the weekend. At the launch of the book titled ‘Sport in Nigeria: Going Round...
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday awarded a musician, Liberty Williams, popularly call ”Pupayannis” N20 million damages against MTN over copyright infringement. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Abuja-based musician, in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2017 instituted in 2017 by the copyright...
The Nigerian Communications Commission ( NCC) has said it would rollout the Fifth Generation (5G) technology by August. The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, said this at the 90th Edition of Telecom Consumer Parliament ( TCP) held on Thursday in Lagos. Danbatta said that NCC, through the...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has advised telecom consumers and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) end users on the need to always enable automatic update features for AVAST and AVG antiviruses to prevent potential cyber vulnerabilities. This was contained in a new advisory released by the Computer Security...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has congratulated the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, on his appointment as the Chairman of the 2022 World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Forum by...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – African universities have been challenged to embrace, deepen digital education and make it acceptable to their societies in order to achieve its desired impact. Dr. Olivier Kuttel, the Head of International Affairs of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland, gave the charge on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Communiations Commission (NCC) has monitored with keen interest the deluge of reports in the media on the demand by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) ostensibly to increase tariffs of telecom services and has taken notes of the fears being expressed by telecom subscribers...
Consistent with its strategic objective of stakeholder collaboration and partnering, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) recently met a section of stakeholders in the mass media industry. The forum was a workshop, organised to keep Nigerian journalists who specialise in reporting the telecom and ICT sector, abreast of emerging developments...