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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says there is an addition of 43,807 active subscribers on the telecommunication networks in March 2019. The telecommunications regulator disclosed this in…

The number of active subscribers for telephony services reported by licensed Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) operators reached 218,608,607 in November 2022. According to the statistics published on January 1, 2023 by the industry regulator – Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The GSM operators added 4,258,509 in the month under review when compared to the 214,350,098 active

An estimated 5.3 billion people, or 66 per cent of the world’s population now use the Internet. This represents a growth rate of 6.1 per cent over 2021, up from 5.1 per cent for 2020-2021, but pales in comparison with the 11 per cent for 2019-2020 seen at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) added 1.9 million new identification numbers to the enrollment database for the National Identity Numbers (NIN) in November. This moved the number from 90.68 NINs in October to 92.63 million a month after. Latest statistics from the NIMC, which revealed this, showed that more men enrolled in the exercise. […]

New statistics show that more Nigerians are making calls and surfing the Internet as telecommunications operators activated and reactivated 2.47 million telephone lines in July.

In Q1 of 2017, the telecoms sector contributed N1.452 trillion to the GDP, i.e., 9.16 %, indicating a growth in the sector.