As Nigeria moves to harness the potential of its digital economy through co-created regulations and provide enabling environment for growth, attraction and protection of investment in the sector, the Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, has said that the recently passed Nigeria Startup Bill by National […]
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The planned implementation of an excise tax on telecommunications services throughout the nation was halted on Monday by the federal government. Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, announced the news during the Presidential Committee on Excise Duty for the Digital Economy Sector’s inaugural meeting in Abuja. In […]
The Management of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) annual Retreat held in Lagos has resolved to consistently focus on prioritizing the needs of their stakeholders in formulating policies, programs, and regulatory instruments that will further boast developmental regulation role for a sustainable Digital Economy, following a two-day power-packed […]
The National Commissioner of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), Dr Vincent Olatunji, led some of the Bureau’s staff to the Shehu Shagari Complex in Abuja-FCT to meet with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF Boss Mustapha. The SGF expressed his delight at the National Commissioner’s visit […]
E-procure, IFFMER, and E-xpose took first, second, and third place, respectively, among seven shortlisted innovations that were pitched at the Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) Hackathon Demo Day, which was organized by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) with technical assistance from the National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) […]
In the last five years, over 50,000 cases of major destruction to telecom infrastructure and facilities have been reported across the country, raising concerns about the impact of these incidents on the quality of telecommunications services in Nigeria. Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has issued an amended Determination of Mobile (Voice) International Termination Rate (ITR) for implementation in the Nigerian Telecommunications Industry effective from September 1, 2022. The ITR for voice services paid for terminating international calls on local networks in Nigeria is now set at US$0.10, from […]
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, at the weekend in Gombe, said Nigeria’s march towards attaining 95 per cent digital literacy in 2030 as contained in the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (2020 – 2030), now looks more promising than ever. Professor Pantami […]
Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy is very excited to hear about the remarkable contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2022. (Q2 2022). This was stated by the National […]
The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), is very excited to hear of the remarkable contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2022 (Q2 2022). The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) […]