Tag: Nigeria
Nigeria cuts 90% off telecoms infrastructure installation fees
Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, is shaving 90% off the right-of-way fee. Now, telecommunications companies that wish to install broadband infrastructure in green areas would only have to...
Amazon Web opens second Africa office in Nigeria
Amazon Web Service (AWS), Amazon's data centre, has opened its second African-based office in Lagos, Nigeria.This comes seven years after it opened the first...
Nigeria to introduce new Naira notes by end of year
Nigerian Central Bank governor Godwin Emefiele in a press briefing on Wednesday stated that the apex bank would redesign the country’s currency.The redesign will...
Nigeria passes Start-up Law
Nigeria’s minister for communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami, has announced that the Nigeria Startup Bill had been signed into law.
Since October 2021, stakeholders...
Nigerian regulator sues Meta, seeks US$69.4 million, lessons for Ghana
Nigeria's Advertising Regulatory Council (ARCON) has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms (owners of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) and its agent, AT3 Resources Limited...
Nigeria: Telcos to disrupt SMS banking services due to $185m USSD...
The row between Nigerian banks and telecommunications operators over the unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) debt seems to have resumed, as telcos disclosed, that...
Fibre optic cable thieves arrested in Lagos
Security officials in Lagos, Nigeria have picked up five suspected telecom fibre optic cable thieves at Ikoyi, TechEconomy.ng has reported.
The policemen were on...
Nigerian man in US$31 million cyber fraud wanted by FBI
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has declared a Nigerian man wanted for defrauding the state of New York of more than $30...
Zipline begins commercial deliveries of medical supplies in Nigeria
Zipline, a leader in instant logistics, has commenced commercial deliveries of medical commodities via unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise called drones, to health facilities within...
Nigeria: Over 50,000 telecom infrastructure vandalized in 5 years
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said over 50,000 cases of major destruction to telecom infrastructure and facilities have been reported across the country...