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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given all telecommunications service providers a 24-hour ultimatum to stop the N50 charge for candidates checking their Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) results, threatening to shutdown their … Read more via The Guardian...

Active Internet Subscribers Grew By 8.26% In Q4 2018. Nigeria Telecoms data for Q3 and Q4 2018 reflected that a total of 172,824,239 and 162,032,481 subscribers were active on voice as against 162,522,772 in Q2 2018 which... Read more via NaijaBizCom.Com – https://ift.tt/2SYo8mi Get more...

The executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has revealed that over 75 per cent of telecommunication devices imported into the country are irreparable and toxic. Danbatta, who made this known at the public inquiry on draft disaster recovery...

As part of measures targeted at curbing the influence of call masking, SIM boxing menaces in the telecoms sector, the regulator-Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has not ruled out major adjustment to both International Termination Rate (ITR) and mobile Local Termination Rate … Read more...

MTN Nigeria has maintained its lead in the mobile internet space, gaining a total of 5,054,192 internet subscribers in 2017. The company started 2017 with 31 million subscribers and ended with 36 million in its kitty. Airtel, the 3rd largest, also had a good year as it added 4,366,788...

It appears that Etisalat Nigeria has been saved for now as reports from NCC suggest it has reached an amicable settlement with creditors over $547m debt. The commission also gave its backing to the current transition process at the helm of the business which saw Mr. Boye Olusanya confirmed as...