President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed to the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 into law. In a Statement issued on Wednesday by Babatunde Bamigboye, Head, Legal Enforcement and Regulations in Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), said the President signed to the Act on June 12th, 2023. Bamigboye said, Nigeria […]
The Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ALTON) Engr. Gbenga Adebayo has once again, stressed that the body has Secured presidential exemption from paying a five per cent excise duty on telecommunication services as contained by the new Finance Act 2023 into law on May 28, 2023. He […]
The 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. […]
The new and substantive Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Dr. Bashir Gwandu has officially resumed office at the NASENI Headquarters, Abuja, on Monday May 22. Dr Gwandu took over from the Officer Overseeing the activities of the Agency, […]
Innovation has not left its mark as Kigali Innovation City (KIC) plans to welcome the University of Rwanda’s regional centre of excellence in biomedical engineering and e-Health, located within the environs of Kigali Special Economic Zone in Gasabo District. The objective of the project is to accelerate the development of […]
The United Nation’s telco agency, International Telecommunications Union [ITU], has launched a new fundraising with the aim at connecting the unconnected in countries facing daunting challenges. The fundraising targeted value from $30 billion to $100 billion will connect, accelerate global digitalisation, and boost meaningful connectivity in the […]
The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), CCIE Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has been awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration (Leadership and Management) by California Metropolitan University (CMU) during the Leaders without Borders Annual Business (LWD) Summit, in London. LWD Annual Business Summit is a global […]
Telecommunications operators In Nigeria have adopted the Nigerian Communication Commission’s approval of a unified Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD, for all mobile networks in the Country. Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had approved the unified USSD codes in Nigeria to enable all mobile network services to use the same customer […]
The Telecommunications advocacy body, the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), says the ‘Bill for An Act to Repeal the National Information Technology Development Agency Act, no 28 2007 And Enact the National Information Technology Development Agency Act’, otherwise known as NITDA Bill would adversely affect […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has authorized foreign banks to work with their parent companies for the purpose of syndicating foreign currency-denominated loans (dollar loans) with the aim at improving dollar liquidity through foreign banks’ representatives in Nigeria. The Director of the Financial Policy and Regulation Department, Muhammad […]
