The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says the country’s broadband penetration stood at 30.9 per cent as at November 2018, surpassing the 30 per cent target by the National Broad Band Plan. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, said this while speaking with journalists on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports […]
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Internet users in Nigeria increased marginally to 104.6 million in August, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The NCC made this known on Monday in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for August posted on its website. According to the data, Airtel, MTN and Globacom gained more internet subscribers during the month under review, while […]
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The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta on Thursday said the 36.6 million telephone lines withdrawn from telecom operators in March this year, were found to be redundant. Danbatta spoke in Abuja on the sideline of the 84th Edition of Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP) . The News Agency of Nigeria […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it remitted N49.7 billion to the Federal Government in the first quarter of 2018. Mr Tony Ojobo, the NCC’s Director of Public Affairs said in a statement on Thursday that the remittance was in compliance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007 (FRA 2007). Ojobo said the figure represented […]
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Legendary Nigerian musician, Innocent Idibia,polularly called 2face or 2Baba, has called on the Nigeria Copyright Commission to urgently intervene in the lingering crisis rocking the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON). He made the plea in a letter addressed to the Director General of the Nigeria Copyright Commission, Afam Ezekunde, on Monday. President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has come up with tough sanctions against some telecom companies engaging in call masking. the Commission decided to suspend the operating licenses of some of the telecommunications operators. A statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the Director of Public Affairs, NCC, Tony Ojobo, said the telecommunications regulatory agency had […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria, have set a Jan. 16 deadline for receipt of binding offers from prospective bidders to acquire debt-laden telecom firm 9mobile. The telecoms company stated that Barclays Africa will review bids submitted before the deadline and make recommendations to 9mobile. Nigerian lenders picked Barclays Africa […]
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Worried by the dangers of improperly registered, unregistered and pre-registered Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has set up a 12-member committee to tackle the problem. The commission said the “menace will no longer be tolerated”. Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta declared this on Monday […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission says in the country internet users increased from 90,124,428 in April to 91,565,010 in May, an increase of 1,440,582. The telecommunications industry regulator made the disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. The data indicates that internet users on […]
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Financial sector regulator, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on Friday said its intervention in the ongoing debt crisis between Etisalat Nigeria and a consortium of banks was to save the Nigerian financial system. CBN spokesperson, Isaac Okoroafor, said the two regulatory authorities intervened primarily to prevent job losses and asset stripping. “Although it should ordinarily […]
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