TECHNOLOGY

Bringing the Internet Closer: NCC and partners work to improve rural connectivity

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2025

In a bold step to improve internet access in Nigeria’s remote communities, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is teaming up with local and international partners to find new ways of connecting people who are still offline. From June 3 to 4, 2025, the NCC hosted a two-day workshop in

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NCC orders banks to stop deducting USSD charges from customers’ accounts

Daily Dispatch June 3, 2025

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed all deposit money banks (DMBs) to stop deducting charges for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) transactions directly from customers’ bank accounts. Instead, these fees will now be charged from users’ mobile airtime balances. In a notification to its customers on Tuesday, the United Bank for Africa (UBA)

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NCC Mandates Service Providers to Inform Consumers about Major Outages on Networks, Launches Portal

Daily Dispatch May 26, 2025

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has mandated telecom licensees in Nigeria to inform consumers of major service outages on their networks through media channels, stating the cause(s) of the service interruption, and the area(s) affected by the service interruption/outage, as well as the time that would be taken to restore service. Consumers must also be […]

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NCC,FCCPC sign MoU on Telecom Consumer Protection

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2025

The Nigeria Communications Commission and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, today, January 14, 2025, in Abuja, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for increased telecom consumer protection. Dr Aminu Maida, the executive vice chairman/CEO of NCC, in his remarks at the MoU signing ceremony, said that in an era of rapid technological

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NCC lists vital role A2P messaging plays in today’s digital world

Daily Dispatch December 21, 2024

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Friday, December 20, 2024, convened a virtual Stakeholders’ Forum on the Draft A2P Licensing Framework. The meeting, tagged Stakeholder Forum on Application-to-Person, or A2P, Messaging, deliberated on the import of the framework in the telecommunication industry and other sectors of the economy. This was in a bid to partner

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NCC, SEC, NASENI bosses, professors, others to discuss business and economic recovery at WES 2024

Daily Dispatch September 16, 2024

All is set for the annual  WorldStage Economic Summit in Lagos on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 with the participation of top business and public executives which include Dr. Aminu Maida, EVC/CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); Dr. Emomotimi Agama, Director General, Security and Exchange Commission (SEC); Mr.