TECHNOLOGY

How Abdulsalami Almost Denied Nigeria $280m Telecom Deal- Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch September 18, 2024

 Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Tuesday, revealed how the former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd), almost denied Nigeria a $280 million telecommunications deal. Obasanjo said when Nigeria was about to transit from landline telephones to mobile phones, some major

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NCC Announces Final Deadline for NIN-SIM Linkage Compliance: September 14, 2024

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2024

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is pleased to announce significant progress in the Federal Government’s 2020 policy to link all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) to National Identity Numbers (NINs). To date, over 153 million SIMs have been successfully linked to a NIN, reflecting an impressive compliance rate of 96 per cent, a substantial increase

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Why MTN shut down its offices nationwide

Daily Dispatch July 30, 2024

Telecoms giant, MTN, has shut all its stores and service centres across Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports that the company said this in a terse statement on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. In a viral video on social media Monday, a mob is seen destroying a barricade fence just outside the MTN office. The clip showed […]

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NCC Orders Immediate Reactivation of Lines Affected by NIN-SIM Verification Issues

Daily Dispatch July 29, 2024

Over the weekend many telecom subscribers/consumers were unable to access their phone lines because of the inability of many telecom consumers to verify their National Identification Numbers (NINs) with their Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs). This meant that their numbers were blocked by their telecom service providers in keeping with laws and policies of the

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Stakeholders at PIAFoIdentifyObstacles to FG’s 90,000km Fibre Project

Daily Dispatch July 12, 2024

Stakeholders in the telecommunications industry have said the Federal Government’s plan to deploy 90,000 kilometers of fibre optic cables across the country will face several obstacles, especially from state governments, that might truncate the project.   According to them, without addressing the current issue of Right of Way charges, multiple taxation, and

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Nigerian govt to send first civilian to space

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2024

President Bola Tinubu-led government is set to send its first citizen to space. The Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency, Mathew Adepoju, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday. The FG signed the Memorandum of Understanding in a collaboration between NASRDA and The Space Exploration and Research Agency. The DG