Chinese brands dictate pace in Nigeria as NCC type-approved phones nears 2000

THE number of phones approved for sale in the country by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) increased to 1,985 as of April 2023, gradually nearing the 2000 mark.     Checks showed that 24 new phone models were approved in the latest update from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) between January and now.  As of January the... Read More

Inflation, FX shrink Nigeria’s smartphones market by 32.1%

  MACRO economic challenges including inflation and forex challenge, especially dollar shortage have impacted the smartphone market in Nigeria.     The International Data Corporation (IDC) informed that Nigeria’s smartphone market declined 32.1 per cent year-on-year in Q4 2022 due to sustained high inflation and a shortage of U.S. dollars in the country.     Largely,... Read More

Vendors to ship 415m used smartphones as IOS app developers earn $320b

SHIPMENTS of used smartphones, including officially refurbished and used smartphones reached 282.6 million units in 2022, where its unit growth, represented an 11.5 per cent increase over the 253.4 million units shipped in 2021. International Data Corporation (IDC), which gave these figures, estimated that this growth will reach 413.3 million units in 2026 with... Read More

Weak consumer spending, economic slowdown cut PC shipment to Nigeria

  By Staff Reporter SHIPMENTS of personal computing devices (PCD) to markets in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) suffered a huge decline in the second quarter of 2022.   The International Data Corporation (IDC), which revealed this in a document, categorised PCD to include desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets. It disclosed that shipment suffered... Read More