Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, has disclosed that in furtherance of the Federal Government’s ongoing efforts to enhance the quality of telecommunications services nationwide, the government and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have opened discussions targeted at protecting submarine cables and other digital infrastructure. Tijani, who made this disclosure on […]
The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, has estimated that the construction of fibre optic cables in Nigeria will require about $2 billion investment. Tijani, who gave this hint when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday, said that his ministry, working in collaboration with […]
Airtel Africa, one of the bidders for the 3.5GHz spectrums auctioned by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in December last year, has requested for administrative assignment of one of the two remaining 3.5GHz spectrum lots to it at the reserve price of $273.6 million. The telco made the request on Tuesday during a stakeholder event […]
The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has reported that three million bank account owners in the country enrolled for the Biometric Verification Number (BVN) from January to May 29 this year, raising the number of enrolments to 54.7 million so far. According to the data released by NIBSS, as of December 26, 2021, the total […]