Telecomms – City Business News

August 12, 2025 No Responses

Tinubu Appoints Board Members For NCC,USPF

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has constituted the boards of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), both agencies under the supervision of the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy.Idris Olorunnimbe was appointed Chairman of...

June 12, 2025 No Responses

NCC, Stakeholders Tackle Rural Connectivity Challenges

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has collaborated with the Association for Progressive Communications and other institutional stakeholders towards addressing challenges confronting rural network connectivity in Nigeria.The collaboration resulted in...

April 8, 2025 No Responses

Tinubu Mourns Business Icon, Pascal Dozie

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Tuesday extended his heartfelt condolences to the Dozie family, the business community, and all Nigerians on the passing of Chief (Dr.) Pascal Gabriel Dozie, an elder statesman, entrepreneur, and banker. He was 85.Chief Pascal D...

January 21, 2025 No Responses

NCC Okays 50% Tariff Hike For Telcos

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Monday approved a 50% tariff increase for telecoms operators in the country. NCC Director, Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka in a statement explained that the price adjustment though lower than the “over 100% reques...

May 30, 2024 No Responses

NCC: A Digital Enabler Of The Renewed Hope Agenda

In Nigeria, a young tech-savvy and upwardly mobile population is teeming, and exploring derivable benefits of digital technologies. They are propelled by rapidly expanding internet access and steady broadband penetration, currently about 43 per cent. Our digit...

August 15, 2023 No Responses

NCC Showcases Indigenous Telecom Achievements At NTICE 2023 Expo

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to showcase achievements so far recorded in the promotion of indigenous content in the telecommunications sector at the second edition of the Nigerian Telecommunications Indigenous Content Expo (NTICE 2023), ...

June 13, 2023 No Responses

Danbatta Bags APPON Award, Assures of Broadband Support for e-Procurement

The 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 A...

June 9, 2023 No Responses

Telecom Sector Contributes N2.508Tri To Nigeria’s GDP

The telecommunications and Information Services sector in Nigeria has, in the first quarter 2023, delivered a handsome N2.508 trillion in terms of financial value contribution to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), representing 14.13 per cent. F...

May 4, 2023 No Responses

Airtel Nigeria Gets New MD/CEO

Airtel Africa has announced the appointment of Carl Cruz as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria. The appointment which takes effect from 5th May 2023, will also see Mr. Cruz join the Executive Committee as the Regional...

August 10, 2022 No Responses

Broadband Penetration Hits 44.5% As NCC Reviews Short Code Services

Nigeria’s broadband usage has continued on the rise, moving up from 40.9 per cent in February 2022 to 44.5 per cent in July 2022, a figure considered hopeful for achieving the national broadband target of 70 per cent in 2025. ...

May 31, 2022 No Responses

Court Orders MTN, NELMCO To Pay N200m To Victim Of Amputation

A High Court in Damaturu, Yobe State, on Monday ordered MTN Telecommunications limited and Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Limited/GTE (NELMCO), to pay N200m to Hamsatu Abdullahi for negligence. Justice M. Lawu Lawan said: “I hold that the pla...

August 14, 2021 No Responses

NCC: Telecomm Based Research Designed To Attain Capacity Development, Others

The Telecommunications-based research Innovations from Academics in the Nigerian Tertiary Institutions programme is designed to achieve outlined goals, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has said. In a notice published on its website and obtai...

July 31, 2021 No Responses

High Expectations As 5G Beckons In Nigeria

Technically, all is now set for the deployment of the Fifth Generation (5G) Networks in Nigeria. However, the chief telecom regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is awaiting final approval from...

July 23, 2021 No Responses

NCC Cautions Stakeholders Against Unofficial Statistics

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has cautioned all stakeholders in the industry to against embrassing any statistics or forecast on activities in the industry, except statistics, projections, or forecast that emanate from the the National Bureau o...