Google appears to be suffering a worldwide outage that has taken several services including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive offline. Several people on social media reported issues with the platforms, with Gmail, YouTube and Google Drive all showing error messages [...]
December 14, 2020
Telecomms
The Lagos State Government has shut down all its broadcast stations, which include Lagos Television, Eko FM, Radio Lagos and Traffic Radio. It was gathered that the decision was taken as a safety measure since irate youths had started to [...]
October 21, 2020
Telecomms
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the House of Representatives have sued the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN; Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; and the National Broadcasting Commission over [...]
September 12, 2020
Telecomms
The National Broadcasting Commission has ordered a radio station, Nigeria Info, to pay a N5m fine for airing comments made by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailaifa, on terrorism in the country. The [...]
August 13, 2020
Telecomms
Facebook says it is expanding its coronavirus Information Centre to Nigeria and 16 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The information centres, according to a statement from Facebook, is part of its effort to help the global fight against COVID-19. It [...]
Fani Kayode explains How 5G may have been installed in Nigeria, despite claims that it’s the one killing people, not coronavirus. Recall that Dino Melaye claimed that 5G have been installed in Nigeria, that Buhari was bribed with $1 Billion, [...]
Scio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, asking her to urgently provide information on the total amount of money paid to contractors from [...]
October 27, 2019
Telecomms
SIM Registration: The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that registration of new Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards will now require the presentation of the National Identity Number (NIN).NCC, which said the enforcement of the new rule takes effect soon, [...]
October 7, 2019
Telecomms
The First Man That Owned A Private Jet In Kano According to a post by Jafaar, a journalist based in Kano State, he gave an in-depth into the man who owes the first private jet in Kano State. According to [...]
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has uncovered eight million forceful subscriptions to telecoms services, and this was revealed in full audit carried out on 45 VAS providers that had over 65 per cent forceful subscriptions. NCC who is Nigeria’s telecoms [...]
The Internet speed in Nigeria has remained slow despite recording increasing subscriptions to third generation of wireless technology, 3G and fourth generation of wireless technology, 4G in the past one year. Nigeria ranked 107th in mobile Internet download speed as [...]
The Federal Government has denied the allegation making the rounds in the media that it had connived with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to work with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to shut down Internet access during [...]
February 2, 2019
Telecomms
Facebook says it is unveiling a new incubation programme, in partnership with its Nigerian satellite hubs to help local start-ups and upcoming entrepreneurs realise their business goals. Facebook Developer Programme Manager Kendra Nnachi said in a statement on Wednesday in [...]
January 23, 2019
Telecomms
WhatsApp users in the country on Wednesday rejoiced that the messaging app did not crash on Tuesday contrary to what was experienced in some parts of the world. It would be recalled that several users worldwide, both on Android and [...]
January 23, 2019
Telecomms
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Monday announced that it would shut down radio and television stations owing the commission licensing fees. The Director General, Is’haq Modibbo Kawu said that any broadcasting station that failed to come up with a [...]
August 28, 2018
Telecomms
Oyo State government yesterday demolished the Music House, a building belonging to popular Juju musician, Yinka Ayefele, along Challenge-Toll Gate Express Way, which houses Fresh FM Station in Ibadan. Ayefele claimed that the property, which was pulled down about 4:30am, [...]
August 20, 2018
Telecomms
About 36.6 million telephone lines have been withdrawn from some telecommunications operators from the National Numbering Plan (NNP) with effect from March 20, 2018. A telephone numbering plan is a type of scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers [...]
Etisalat Nigeria on Thursday changed its brand name to 9Mobile. The change of name, it was gathered, was approved at a management meeting, with the public relations consultant to the telco, Chain Reactions, confirming the development. Chain Reactions, promised to [...]
The Nigerian Senate has condemned the proposed increase of data tariffs by telecommunications service providers, in line with the directive of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. Rising from a plenary session on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the [...]
December 1, 2016
Telecomms
Zuckerberg Adds Hausa Language: Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Friday, added Hausa language, Fula, and two others, Maltese and Corsican to Facebook, making the social media platform become available in more than 100 languages. Zuckerberg announced this yesterday where [...]
October 1, 2016
Telecomms
In a bid to deepen competition and force mobile phone operators to provide better service to their customers, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, on Monday launched the Nigerian Mobile Number Portability service to guarantee freedom for telecoms subscribers. Here are [...]
The Nigerian Communications Commission has released a new set of interconnection rates for voice services for the country’s telecommunications industry targeted at bringing down call tariffs. The review, which will start from April 1, 2013, was agreed on after comprehensive [...]
Nigeria’s GSM networks internet usage increases to 81 million – The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, declares the number of internet users on the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) networks has grown from 76,322, 802 in 2014 to 81,892,840 in January [...]
April 6, 2015
Economy, Telecomms
A lot of investments have been made in Africa’s Internet and Broadband sector between 2009 and now, with most parts of Africa gaining access between 2009 and 2010, according to reports, wholesale prices for Internet bandwidth have come down by [...]
April 5, 2015
General, Telecomms
NCC Plans Cheaper Internet Connection, Price Caps On Cable Transmission – FOR market competition and to assure affordable Internet connection everywhere in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is going to set price limits on the cable transmission segment of [...]
March 26, 2015
Economy, Telecomms
Nigeria has attained 100 % tele-density, Says NCC – Dr Eugene Juwah, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), declares that Nigeria has reached a teledensity of 100 % as at January 2015. Juwah, who was represented by [...]
March 23, 2015
Economy, Telecomms
NCC, Operators To Meet On 2.6GHz Licence Auction – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) would very soon meet with mobile telecommunications operators as well as stakeholders in the industry to make an amended framework for the 2.6 Gigahertz (GHz) spectrum licence [...]
March 17, 2015
Economy, Telecomms
Airtel Invests Sh2.5 Billion to Update 3G Network – Bharti Airtel, a top telecommunications services provider having operations in 20 countries throughout Asia as well as Africa, has declared that it has expended Sh2.5 billion to upgrade its network to boost [...]
February 26, 2015
Economy, Telecomms
NBC to Sanctions Erring Broadcast Stations – Concerned by the high level of loathe speeches, personality assaults and demonizing documentaries within the nations broadcasting surroundings, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has threatend to sanction several broadcast channels for contravening the National [...]
February 25, 2015
Telecomms
The recent directive by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on new price cap for domestic off-net short message service (SMS) of N4 (Four Naira) per message from February 5, would translate to a huge loss of over N222billion to the [...]
February 17, 2015
Telecomms