By Harrison Eromosele Everyone agrees that 2020 was a peculiar year. Economies across the globe experienced turbulent challenges due to the disruption caused by the outbreak of Covid-19. In Nigeria, following two consecutive quarters (Q2, 2020 and Q3, 2020) of negative growth, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) officially announced that the country’s economy...
Read MoreNigeria has extended the deadline for the mobile phone subscribers to link their SIM Card database with their National Identification Number (NIN) to February 9 from January 19, 2021. In a statement, the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) said it received formal confirmation from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) that President Muhammadu...
Read MoreAfrica’s education and financial services sectors offer the best opportunities in the post-COVID-19 period, as the pandemic speeds up a shift into digital ways of living and working, two prominent investors said on Tuesday. “Digital infrastructure businesses at this point in time are probably the ones that investors are most excited about,” Jihan Abass,...
Read MoreBy Samuel Bankole Nigeria has again readjusted its policy on SIM Card database update as it lifted the earlier suspension order on replacement and activation of old Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card for subscribers with NIN. What that means is that person who have already enrolled and obtained the National Identification Number (NIN) could...
Read MoreBy Mike Obadan The financial sector has continued to demonstrate soundness and resilience even under a debilitating covid-19 environment. The performance confirms the robustness and efficacy of the monetary policy measures. However, although the CBN’s measures influenced interest rates downwards, lending rates are still high and there is unacceptable disparity between lending and...
Read MoreBy Oludare Mayowa Nigeria on Monday said it has approved the extension of the deadlines for mobile telephone subscribers to update their database with their National Identification Number (NIN) to February 9, 2021, from December 30 2020. In a statement by the ministerial task force and signed by the executive vice-chairman of...
Read MoreMTN Nigeria said it could complete the process of updating its subscribers’ database with valid National Identification Numbers (NIN) within six months. The telecoms firm, however, said it does not envisage that the ban on sales of new SIM cards would unlikely to last that long. The current and incoming CEOs of MTN Nigeria,...
Read MoreBy GFDNews correspondents The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami are under fire from Nigerians over the directive that mobile phone users should update their SIM Card with the valid National Identification Number (NIN) before the end of 2020 after which their SIM would be...
Read More* Telcoms subscribers to update SIM records before Dec 31 * National Identification Number mandatory for SIM registration * SIM without NIN will be blocked By Oludare Mayowa Nigeria has directed telecoms firms to ask all their existing subscribers to update their SIM registration records with valid National Identification Number (NIN) before the end...
Read MoreBy Oludare Mayowa Econet Global, the first mobile telecoms to received GSM licence in Nigeria, which later transformed to the present day Airtel is staging a big come back to the country with the construction of a $100 million new data centre facility in Lagos. According to the founder of Econet and Liquid Telecom,...
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