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While the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU), 2012 regulatory report released last week highlighted the vital importance of national regulatory framework in accelerating broadband roll-out and stimulating the development of new digital goods and services, participants at the just concluded W ...

Even with N70 billion budget appropriation for ICT in the current financial year, the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has said that Nigerian ICT companies will be more attractive for listing in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, (NSE) unless certain bottlenecks including double taxat ...

The Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Rajan Swaroop has decried the spate of multiple taxation and regulation in the Industry, stressing that telecoms operators are groaning under heavy financial demands by government agencies.  Mr. Swaroop who spoke at the 2012 Edition of the West African Informa ...

Following last week’s sanction slammed on operators by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for failure to improve their services and meet the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set as benchmark for telecommunications operators in the country, the duo of MTN Nigeria and Emerging Markets Telecommu ...

Another organisation to further the frontiers of ICt on the continent, Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA) has been formed. With Dr Jimson Olufuye , WITSA Vice Chairman for Africa and former ITAN president, as the initial Chairman of AfICTA, the founding countries of the Alliance are not limited to Nigeria, Gambi ...

THE Communications Technology Minister, Omobola Johnson, has re-iterated the desire of the Federal Government to run a more open and transparent government by opening up its activities for public scrutiny. She said beyond providing relevant, accurate and up to date information to Nigerians, the Federal G ...

A World Bank study has revealed that in low and middle-income countries, every 10-percentage point increase in broadband penetration accelerates growth by 1.38 percent—more than in high-income countries and more for other telecommunications services. Tthe World Bank study disclosed that, countries with ...

The Senior Partner, Communications and High Tech Practice, Accenture, Mr. Stuart Orr, has called on the Federal Government, the Ministry of Communications Technology and other stakeholders in the Information and Communications Technology industry to accelerate the implementation of broadband programme. Sp ...

Telcos have identified multiple taxation, among other factors,  as responsible for poor service; saying state and local governments are placing a heavy  tax burden on them. Nigeria’s telecoms industry’s phenomenal growth over the past decade was not without a huge burden on the operators, who had t ...

The President, National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers, Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission to compensate the over 95 million active subscribers with the N1.17bn fines imposed on the GSM operators for poor services on Friday. MTN Nigeria, Etisalat, Airte ...

Commissioner for Planning and Economic Development, Kwara State, Mr. Tunde Adeoti, has said there is the need to ensure greater Information and Communication Technology penetration in the rural areas. In an interview during the inauguration of ABS Youth Development and Computer Centre at Alaa-isin, in I ...

The Director-General, National Information Technology Agency of Nigeria, Prof. Cleopas Angaye, has called for a comprehensive broadband policy for the West African sub region. Speaking during the fourth West African ICT Congress organized by IT& Telecom Digest in Lagos on Friday, Prof. Angaye said this ...

The Senate Committee on Privatization did not reject the planned liquidation of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile subsidiary, Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-TEL), the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) said yesterday. The Senate Committee at a session with BPE on April 24 r ...

The much-expected nationwide broadband rollout plan that will provide cheap and easy access to internet will soon commence, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The Commission who dropped the hint in Lagos at the ongoing West African Information and Communications Technology (WAFICT) Co ...

Indigenous software developers have argued that in the next three years, Nigeria can generate over $10 billion (N1.5 trillion) annually from selling and exporting locally-developed software, if the right environment is created for local software developers. Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISP ...