The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has expressed  delight  over the growth of ICT’s contribution to Nigeria’s GDP in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1 2020). The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released ‘Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product Report’ for Q1 2020 on the 25th...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has, again, clarified that the Hon. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, was never involved in the process of offer of office allocation to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) at the NCC’s Communications and Digital Economy Complex located...
The National Information Technology Develoment Agency (NITDA) yesterday said, it was working to make Nigeria a global outsourcing destination, as part of economic diversification efforts of the present administration. NITDA disclosed this during an Online Stakeholders Engagement Workshop on the Draft "National Outsourcing Strategy for Nigeria 2020-2025." Speaking in an Opening Remarks,...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has suspended the Spectrum Trading Guidelines 2018 for the Nigerian telecommunications industry. This was announced in a statement by the Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Dr. Henry Nkemadu. The statement said, the Board of Commissioners of the Commission rose from its meeting recently with this position and...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that contrary to a video making the rounds on social media alleging that the Nigeria Diaspora Commission (NDC) was thrown out of its building, there was nothing like that as being alleged. NCC said, it was, therefore, important that the general public was...
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has expressed delight over the strides that have been made by the Executive Governors of Kaduna, Imo, Katsina and Plateau States with respect to Right of Way (RoW) charges. The Technical Assistant, Information Technology to the Minister of...
The Posting and Industrial Relations Unit of the Human Resource Division of NIPOST Corporate Headquarters was this morning at about 8:35am gutted by fire. NIPOST said, the smoke that snowballed into the fire was first noticed coming from the window of the office, at the second floor of the building. It...
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has issued Guidelines for Management of Personal Data by Public Institutions in Nigeria. NITDA said, the action was in furtherance of its regulatory mandate to prevent breach or abuse of personal data in the country. The Guidelines, according to the agency, were issued as...
Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (NIEEE) has weighed in on the controversy that next-generation telephone networks, popularly known as 5G technology may be harmful to human beings. Mr Kings Adeyemi, national chairman of the institute, in a statement, said that the frequency that drives speed in technology, as...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) insisted the country has not issued 5G Licences as being speculated. NCC said, its attention was drawn to a mischievous statement making the rounds on social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn and other sites that the Nigerian telecoms industry was going to switch on...