By Prof. Chidi Emmanuel Akujor Book Title: Catalysing Nigeria’s Socio-Economic Transformation through broadband infrastructure Author: Prof Umar Danbatta Book Reviewer: Prof. Chidi Emmanuel Akujor, FAS, FRAS (UK), FNIP, FSESN, FRAES, FASN Introduction This is a book that has a total of 531 pages including 27 preliminary pages. It is well organized in […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission says all Foreigners exempted from enrolling for the National Identity Number will have to request for Subscriber Identity Module activation every six months up to a period of two years. This was disclosed in its new draft for ‘Business Rules and Operational Processes for Implementation of […]
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Professor Umar Danbatta has listed the benefits of NCC Strategic Vision (Implementation) Plan (SVP) 2021-2025, including the facilitation of broadband penetration, improvement in the quality of service, attracting ICT investments, promoting fair competition as well as strategic collaboration and partnerships […]
The telecommunications Giant,MTN Nigeria has announced the renewal of its Unified Access Service (UAS) and Spectrum for wireless local loop 900MHz and 1800MHz band licences by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. The news of the renewal is contained in a notice by MTN Nigeria signed by the Company Secretary, Mrs […]
In line with the federal government’s approval of 5G policy in Nigeria, the National Frequency Management Council (NFMC), chaired by Minister Pantami, will soon release spectrum to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) that meet all the required conditions. The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy disclosed […]
LG TVs: Best TV for Netflix, Gaming and beyond The age of Full HD is over and that means almost every new television these days supports a 4K resolution. That’s four times as much detail as before. Depending on your price range, most TVs will support High Dynamic Range (HDR) […]
The new NCC’s SVP 2021-2025 has five items. Also unveiled was NCC Podcast platform The Minister who represented Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigeria’s president, assured the private sector of government’s immense support. According to him, the applauds which he got from the President for his performance in making the sector a […]
A proposed fine of N200,000 awaits any mobile communications services provider which fails to verify and validate biometric, National Identity Number and other personal information of each subscriber to its services, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). A proposed draft regulation on registration of telephone subscribers 2020 recently published […]
Following the directives of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to Telcos operating in some areas of the Northwest to shut down their services for two weeks over the heightened state of insecurity, most telecommunications companies have complied to the directives. The president of The Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed all telecommunications providers to shut down services in Zamfara State from today, September 3, 2021. This, the telecoms regulator said became imperative to address rising insecurity in the State. This came as the last move that may totally shut down every economic activity […]