President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to adopting successful global economic models, including those from India, to drive Nigeria’s development. Speaking during an interaction with an Airtel delegation led by Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal at the State House, Abuja, he emphasized that his government is open to learning from other nations to enhance…
One of Nigeria’s largest mobile network operators (MNO), Globacom, has announced a reduction in its call tariff. This is coming at a time other operators are jerking up their call tariff in line with the January 50 per cent adjustment to end user tariff of telecom services by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) which has…
Last year, Nigeria’s telecom sector suffered over 50,000 fiber cuts across the country with ripple effects on service quality and huge financial losses to the mobile network operators (MNOs) via remediation and restoration. Of these cuts, 30,000 were blamed on federal and state road construction activities, telecom sector regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has…
Pay Tv subscribers have kicked aagainst MultiChoice Nigeria’s hike in the cost of subscriptions for its DStv and GOtv packages. The subscribers, acting under the aegis of Association of Telephone, Cable TV, and Internet Subscribers of Nigeria (ATCIS), said the hike is a reflection of the insensitivity of the pay tv service provider to the…
Angry subscribers yesterday took to Airtel Nigeria’s X (formerly Twitter) page to express their displeasure over the operator’s decision to implement a significant adjustment to its data pricing structure. The revised data plans, published on the telco’s website, include daily plans: N50 for 40MB (valid for one day), N100 for 100MB (valid for one day),…
Telecom subscribers went angry as MTN Nigeria began the implementation of the 50 per cent adjustment in end user tariff of telecom services approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in January. MTN Nigeria raised the prices of its internet plans to reflect the adjustment. The prices reviewed include a 1.8GB monthly plan for ₦1,500,…
By Ogunojuwo Monijesu The Managing Director, Project Management Institute (PMI), Sub-Saharan Africa, George Asamani, has stressed the importance of mastering technical skills as Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to redefine job roles. In a statement at the weekend, Asamani said as AI integrates into the workplace and redefines job roles, young professionals find themselves at a…
Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, has blamed cumbersome regulatory processes, limited access to devices, lack of awareness, inadequate digital literacy, and erratic power supply for the challenges the country faced in the area of affordable broadband penetration. The Minister, in his keynote entitled: The Broadband Alliance: Accelerating Our Collective Prosperity Through…
A 50 per cent tariff hike in end user tariffs of telecom services in Nigeria will spur business expansion, potentially reducing poverty levels in Africa’s most populous nation, Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), has said. Its head of sub-Saharan Africa, Angela Wamola, who spoke during a virtual press conference, said private capital will…
