THE National Commissioner, Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), Dr. Vincent Olatunji, has been appointed into Forbes Technology Council for 2023. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and Technology Executives. Forbes Councils’ founder, Scott Gerber, said they are really excited to welcome Dr. Olatunji to the Council. He stressed that their […]
Read MoreBy Inioluwa Adewale THE number of identified areas of clusters across Nigeria without access to the telecommunications services has been reduced by 53.1 per cent as at the end of 2022. The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, disclosed this at a telecoms industry stakeholders forum in […]
Read MoreTHE Association of Public Procurement Practitioners of Nigeria (APPON) has conferred the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, with the ‘Excellent Service Delivery and Accountability Award’. The award was in recognition of Danbatta’s performance and contribution to the canons of the public procurement profession in […]
Read MoreTHE telecommunications and Information Services sector in Nigeria has, in the first quarter 2023, contributed N2.508 trillion in terms of financial value contribution to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), representing 14.13 per cent. Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that the sector recorded a 4.3 per cent. increase from […]
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso THE Fifth-Generation (5G) network licensees in Nigeria have been mandated to ensure protection of citizens’ data in this critical period of cyber criminals. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), which gave this directive in Lagos, Thursday, at the 2023 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum with the theme: “5G: Data Governance, Safety and Security in Nigeria,” […]
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that it has played an effective role in placing the country at a vantage position to reap the immense benefits of the Fifth-Generation (5G) network. The NCC noted that the Communications Sector is indeed the pace-setter sector as far as the expansion of the […]
Read MoreBy Staff Reporter LOUNGING on Labadi Beach, browsing the shops on Osu’s Oxford Street, ending the day with a meal in a local chop bar: This is Accra, Ghana’s bustling capital city. It’s also where, in 2018, Google opened its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) research center in Africa. The center houses research labs that explore […]
Read MoreTHE Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta , will be conferred with the esteemed National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) award, among other notable Nigerians. The announcement was made in an advertorial signed by the Director-General of the National Productivity Center, Dr. Nasir Olaitan Raji-Mustapha, heralding Danbatta’s achievements […]
Read MoreBy Staff Reporter VOICE and data services have earned Airtel Nigeria N892 billion, according to the audited financial report released Thursday by Airtel’s parent company, Airtel Africa to the Nigeria Exchange Limited (NGX). Specifically, the Nigeria operating company recorded a 13.4 per cent growth in voice revenue to N484.9 billion ($1.053 billion), while data […]
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso TELECOMMUNICATIONS operators are set to disconnect Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) from the use of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) over the protracted debt, which has amounted to N120 billion. Under the aegis of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), the services providers said the Nigerian Public […]
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