Concerns as Nigeria’s telecoms industry sees 50,000 infrastructure damages in five years

By Adeyemi Adepetun OVER 50,000 cases of major destruction to telecoms infrastructure and facilities have been reported across the country in the past five years, raising alarm over the implication of these incidents to the quality of telecommunications services in Nigeria. Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, who... Read More

Nigerian govt tasked on data sovereignty

  By Staff Writer AS part of the measures to ensure growth of indigenous telecoms operators, experts have beckoned on the Federal Government to enforce data sovereignty and local residency. The Chief Executive Officer of Open Access Data Centre (OADC), Ayotunde Coker, who made this call, said data centres in the country have evolved... Read More

ICT sector’s contribution to GDP hits 18.44%

By Favour Unukaso THE Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, is 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) stated this in the ‘Nigeria’s... Read More