Press Conference

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is firming up a cybersecurity framework for securing digital infrastructure and enhancing online safety for consumers in the Nigerian communications industry.   The framework, with likely implementation timeline by telecom licensees set for 2026, will address security challenges arising from the emerging technologies towards...

  Stakeholders in the nation’s science, technology and innovation sector are set to hold the inaugural National Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Communication (STICOMMSLOC) in collaboration with the African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja. The chairman, Local Organization Committee of the conference, Dr. Bosco Okolo-Obi, speaking at...

The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has officially announced that the investment profile in the nation’s telecommunications sector, comprising foreign direct investment (FDI) and local investment, has reached $75.6 billion as of 2021. Danbatta disclosed this at an interactive session with...

An inter-agency committee set, up by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economyemimg, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, to discuss areas of collaboration between the agencies of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in relation to the Finance Act 2020 has...

The Chief Marketing Officer, Rahul De of MTN Nigeria has assumed a new role as CEO of  MTN Liberia. His new position  in the MTN Group takes effective November 1, 2020. In a statement from the telecom company, Rahul was appointed Chief Marketing Officer in 2015. In that position, he...

At an interactive session with senior media chiefs in the country, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has given accounts of his stewardship in the last five years. Held at the NCC’s Digital Economy Complex, Abuja, the event was...