The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has concluded the process for determining the cost-based price of Mobile International Termination Rate (ITR) to ensure healthy competition on traffic handling for voice services between local and international operators in Nigeria. The Commission made this known at the final Stakeholders’ Forum for the presentation […]
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With Africa and Middle East witnessing a major transition with Big Data and Analytics, expecting US$68 billion revenue growth (up 28% every year until 2025), renown events organisers Tradepass hosted 700+ Big Data enthusiasts virtually at BYTES ’21: Africa on 20-21 April, 2021. The summit was glamorized by a distinguished […]
With an aim to develop counterintelligence to tackle the increasing number of cybercrimes in Africa, Tradepass hosted more than 1500 cyber enthusiasts virtually at the 3rd edition of CyFrica recently. CyFrica 2021: LIVE, commenced on 4-5 May 2021. With global pandemic impacting around the world, Africa experienced a […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that it does not have the constitutional power to prosecute offenders of Twitter suspension order issued by the Federal Government. It will be recalled that the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had in a statement, issued on Saturday, June 5, directed […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged Nigerian youths to leverage Internet/broadband access to unleash their potentials for innovation and creativity, as well as their quest for job opportunities and skills acquisition. The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, made the call during the presentation […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) have drummed support for the 12th Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), slated for Thursday, June 10, at the Golden Tulip Hotels Essential, International Airport Road, Lagos. Confirming this in Lagos, the […]
The President of the African ICT Foundation, Mr. Tony Ojobo is to speak at the 21st Infopoverty World Conference focusing on “How to build a fairer and more inclusive Digital Society?” will be held on December 3, 2021 at the UN Headquarters in New York and live streamed on the […]
The umbrella body of telecommunications providers in Nigeria says it is currently engaging ‘stakeholders’ to resolve the ban on Twitter, a microblogging platform. In a statement signed by the President of Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Ikechuckwu Nnamani, it stated that the move is to ensure “a speedy […]
Users of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services in Nigeria have started getting notice of N6.98 charges for each transaction session. This follows the agreement reached in March between the deposit money banks and the telecommunication firms after the intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian […]
Following Friday’s indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations, two days after the social media giant deleted a tweet from President Buhari’s verified account, the Nigerian Communications Commissionn has ordered telecoms operators tp block access to Twitter. This was confirmed by the chairman of the The Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of […]