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African Telecoms Union Wants Telcos to Empower Youth as Device Producers & Not Consumers

Ecosystem players must upskill and train youth, particularly African youth, to not only interact with gadgets as consumers but also as producers. So said John Omo, secretary-general of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), speaking at Huawei’s Digital Talent Summit ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. The ATU is a specialised organ […]

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Nigeria, Niger Republic Sign Agreement on Cross-Border Deployment of Telecoms Services

Nigeria and Republic of Niger have signed a bilateral agreement in Abuja for coordination of frequency utilisation along their borders to ensure seamless deployment of services around within the two countries. The agreement signing ceremony was one of the highlights of the two-day Digital Economy Regional Conference, hosted by the Nigerian government and facilitated by […]

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Mafab Telecoms, 5G License Winner Flags-off Service with New Logo Unveiling

The Mafab Telecommunication Company one of the companies that got the 5G technology license, after a long wait by the industry, yesterday in the Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja inaugurated the Fifth Generation (5G) network and unveiled its logo noting that its the launch had added another chapter in its journey towards a brighter and stronger […]

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How Telecos Reduce Carbon Emissions from Supply Chain

The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) today published ‘Green Future Networks: Telco Supply Chain Sustainability’ addressing the key issue of how operators can work with their supply chains to reduce carbon emissions. Reducing carbon emissions from the supply chain is of critical importance to operators’ roadmaps to net zero carbon. “Cutting carbon emissions to […]

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NCC’s Weekly Telecoms Television Series Returns

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set for a return to the tube with a newly packaged 30 – Minute weekly television programme that will regularly x-ray the Nigerian telecommunications and information communications technology (ICT) industry and provide awareness for telecommunication consumers across the country and beyond. The weekly programme, aptly tagged Telecom Weekly, will […]

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Telecoms

NCC Gets Anti-Graft Unit, Pledges to Sustain Regulatory Transparency

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has inaugurated a unit at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to support the accountability and transparency efforts of the NCC. Consequently, the Commission has pledged to continually maintain high ethical standards in all its regulatory activities consistent with the Federal Government’s efforts to entrench the culture of accountability and […]

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Telecoms

Liquid Telecom Appoints Wole Abu CEO for Liquid Telecom & Africa Data Centre in Nigeria

Pan-African telecoms group, Liquid Telecom has appointed Wole Abu as Chief Executive Officer for Liquid Telecom Nigeria and its new Africa Data Centre (ADC) in Nigeria, effective January 2021. The organisation had recently acquired a premium piece of land in Lagos to build the data centre, which will be the single largest data centre in […]

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Telecoms

NCC Endows N40m Professorial Chairs in Two More Universities

In line with its ongoing initiative to ensure a sustainable telecommunications industry that is responsive to global technological changes as well as national consumer preferences, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has instituted and endowed Professorial Chairs to the tune of N40 million in two more Nigerian universities. The two universities include the premier University of […]

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Telecoms

Stakeholders, Experts to Tackle e-Waste Menace at e-Waste Dialogue 2020

Online publication, the ITREALMS Media is to host its 2020 Electronic Waste (e-Waste) dialogue to discuss growing menace of electronics waste being generated in the country. The Editor-in-chief of ITREALMS Media inc, publishers of ITREALMS Online, Mr. Remmy Nweke, announced the event in statement, said the dialogue with the theme: ‘e-Waste in Nigeria: Challenges and […]

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Telecoms

Telecoms Regulation is Knowledge Base, Says NCC

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has pledged to increase collaboration with higher institutions of learning across the country in order to transform Nigeria into a full knowledge-based economy. The Chairman, Board of Commissioners of NCC, Prof. Adeolu Akande, stated this during a courtesy visit by NCC Board members to Bayero University, Kano (BUK) at the […]

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