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South Africa’s MTN Group has started “MTN Nigerianization agenda” to increase local participation in the mobile phone company, according to its top management. Dr Ernest Ndukwe, MTN Nigeria Chairman Board of Directors, today dropped the hint of the MTN Nigeriazation Agenda said to be underway at the mobile phone company during a working visit to introduce Karl Toriola, MTN Nigeria CEO Designate, to Dr. Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy in Abuja, according to a post-visit Twitter message by the Ministry. MTN Group, which owns 78,8% in MTN Nigeria, reached a deal...

Mrs Bella Disu, Executive Vice Chairman of Globacom, Second National Operator and owners of Glo Mobile, has taken over as Chairman of construction giant, Abumet Nigeria Limited. Bella, daughter of Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr, Globacom Chairman and founder of the Nigeria telecoms group, took over the chairman’s position at the construction company on January 1, this year. The younger Adenuga takes over from Alhaji Dr. Bamanga Tukur at Abumet, a full-service aluminium and glass solutions provider with 30 years of experience delivering its aluminium and glass products and services within the Nigerian ...

MVNOs otherwise called Mobile Virtual Network Operators are to launch mobile services in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration opens the telecoms market to more competition. Technology Times can confirm that the Nigerian Communications Commission planned licencing rounds will introduced MVNOs offering mobile services on the back of existing mobile network operators (MNOs), MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Glo Mobile and 9mobile and others, in what is seen as imminent shakeup of the telecoms market. Typically, virtual network operators (VNOs) are entities that do not own teleco...

Nigeria’s towers on third and fourth-generation mobile technologies otherwise known as 3G and 4G respectively, including optical fibre networks, have grown in the last five years, the telecoms regulator says. Within the last five years, 3G and 4G base deployment in Nigeria has increased from 30,000 to 53,460 to boost the nation’s transmission capacity for delivery of broadband and telecoms services, Professor Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) disclosed in a statement by the telecoms regulator. Fibre Optic Transmission cables also expanded fro...

Nigeria’s ID regulator has explained why owners of National Identification Number otherwise called NIN, generated from BVN, cannot use them for linking SIM and NIN records. A number of BVN owners who discovered that NIN has been automatically generated for them without enrolment took for granted that it would be the same experience with the pairing of their SIM records for the mandatory SIM+NIN linking ordered by Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy. But they were wrong as National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says that owners of NIN generated from BVN are ...