Category: ICT

Nigeria vows to regulate Social Media, says action needed “most urgently”

ADEOLA YUSUF

  . Information Minister, Lai Muhammed, blames new media abuse for #EndSARS protest’s hijack, violence . Alleges social media was used to guide arsonists, looters to certain properties, both public and private, during the EndSARS violence   “Call it regulation or whatever, we have to do something most urgently to rein in the abuse of social media,” Nigeria’s minister of information and culture, Lai Muhammed declared on Tuesday. Nigeria has earlier made plans to go the way of China, Saudi Arabia and other who regulate the use of new media…

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Nigerian Communications Commission Rakes In N240m From VAS Aggressors 

ADEOLA YUSUF

  As part of its regulatory and revenue generating functions, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has recorded N240 million from licences issued to operators in the Value Added Service (VAS) segment of the telecommunications sector. New Telegraph reported that the industry regulator had so far issued licences to 24 firms within the period with 10 given out last year and nine issued earlier this year. NCC further consolidated the process with additional five licences, bringing the total to 24 with each costing approximately N10 million. The newly licensed firms, according…

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Buhari commissions West Africa’s first Power sector SCADA system by EKEDC

ADEOLA YUSUF

Buhari commends EKEDC for milestone   Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday commissioned the power system’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) project centre put in place by Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) in Lagos, which he decribed as the first functional SCADA in West Africa. The centre for SCADA is one of the most advanced technologies in the power distribution business globally, and Buhari declared optimism that the system would translate to improved service delivery to customers within EKEDC’s network. Represented by the minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, the…

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Digital age offers greater revenue-earning potential for Nigeria – NCC CEO

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has underscored the centrality of economic diversification and ethical leadership at all levels of government as panacea for the current economic headwinds in Nigeria. Danbatta stated this when he delivered a paper entitled: “Ethical   Leadership as an Instrument for National Sustainability in the Post-Oil Nigerian Economy. A Public Sector Perspective” at a  two-day hybrid (online and onsite) Annual Directors Conference (ADC) organized by the Institute of Directors (IoD), Nigeria earlier this week, where he also…

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MTN, 9Mobile secure NCC’s nod for micro-chip e-SIM trial in Nigeria

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has granted approval for two mobile network operators (MNOs), MTN Nigeria and 9Mobile, to carry out a trial on the workability of embedded Subscriber Identification Modules (e-SIM) Service in Nigeria. The trial, approved to run for a period of one year, will involve testing 5,000 e-SIMs by the two networks, subject to compliance with a number of regulatory conditions. These conditions include full compliance by the MNOs with the Registration of Telecoms Subscribers Regulations 2011; the Mobile Number Portability Regulations and Business Rules 2015;…

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How Nigerian Telecoms Agency raked-in N344.71bn in 5 Years – Danbatta

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has told the House Committee on Telecommunications how the telecoms agency contributed to the revenue drive of the Federal Government by generating and remitting N344.71 billion to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) in the last five years. Danbatta stated this while briefing the Committee members, led by their Chairman, Hon. (Prince) Akeem Adeyemi, during a legislative oversight function on the Commission in Abuja on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. The EVC, who attributed the successes of…

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MTN, 9mobile Roaming Trial license in Nigeria expires October 31

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set for a review of three months’ trial of National Roaming Service granted two mobile network operators (MNOs), MTN and 9mobile as the approval ends by the end of October. The approval, it would be recalled, was granted for a period of three months, commencing from August 1, 2020 and to end by October 31, 2020. A statement by the Commission stated that the two telecoms companies are Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Nigeria and the Emerging Markets Telecommunication Service Limited (EMTS), trading as…

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Why NCC began InfraCo licencing Framework, Funding Review

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Facts, at the weekend, emerged on the real reason, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) constituted a committee to review the framework for the licensing of Infrastructure Companies (InfraCo). The review committee is to recommend sustainable funding options for effective implementation of the proposed national fibre project. The NCC, which declared this in a statement to Platforms Africa at the wekeend, maintained that the imperative of reviewing the InfraCo framework is “to cater for the delays in take-off, change in exchange rate, supply chain and other challenges imposed by the COVID-19…

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#EndSARS: Nigerian Government Websites hacked

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Collective Anonymous, the dreaded international group of hackers, says it has hacked some websites belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The act is said to be in support of the ongoing #EndSARS protest that has taken over many cities in Nigeria, following calls for the disbandment of notorious police unit, the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) which has been alleged to be involved in abduction, harassment, extortion and murder of innocent victims. Anonymous did not disclose the identity of websites breached but the Nigerian police suffered a severe…

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#ENDSARS: Nigerian President loses 100,000 Twitter Followers in 24 hours

ADEOLA YUSUF

  About 100,000 accounts have unfollowed Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Twitter as the #EndSARS protest rocking the country takes a new turn. The loss of 100,000 followers is a sign of protest of Buhari’s alleged mismanagement of the current policing crisis across the nation. A new wave of protests to end the activities of the special anti-robbery squad of the Nigerian Police Force (SARS) has been sweeping across the globe in the last 96 hours, calling on the president to scrap that unit of the nation’s police. Buhari did…

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