NCC assures Meta of regulatory ease ahead landing 2Africa cable

Post AMUGEDecember 4, 2023

  Business a.m. Reporter Ahead of the landing of Meta’s 2Africa undersea cable in Lagos and Akwa Ibom states, the country’s telecommunications industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has told the American multinational company it would provide regulatory support to ease its operation as part of its broad support to all investors who play […]

MTN Nigeria reports strong 17.2% rise in revenue amid regulatory bottlenecks 

May 4, 2021

Active data users declined marginally by 71,000 to 32.5 million Declares profit before tax of N385.3bn Charles Abuede Nigeria’s leading telecommunication giant, MTN Nigeria, has announced a 33.9 per cent growth in its profit before tax to N102.9 billion during the first quarter of 2021 despite the regulatory directives which saw Nigeria’s Communications Commission (NCC) […]

Segun Ogunsanya now MD/CEO, Airtel Africa

April 29, 2021

Charles Abuede   Airtel Africa plc, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, has announced in a disclosure filed to the Nigerian Exchange the appointment of Olusegun Ogunsanya, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Nigeria as the new Managing Director and CEO of Airtel Africa Plc following the intentions of Raghu […]

MTN suspends USSD service

April 2, 2021

MTN recovers from Covid-19 aftermath to post 15% revenue growth to N1.35trn

…urges subscribers to use alternate channels Wale Ameen Online Editor Nigeria’s largest mobile telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria has suspended the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) on it’s network. Following this outage, mobile network subscribers on the MTN network will not be able to carry out USSD transactions like airtime top-up or transfers on […]

Airtel signs sales agreement for its telecommunication towers in Madagascar, Malawi, Chad and Gabon

March 23, 2021

Charles Abuede   Signs are beginning to play into reality in recent times for Airtel Africa, Africa’s leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money service with questions emanating from several quarters concerning an announcement by the company revealing its plans to sell out its telecommunications tower companies in Madagascar and Malawi to Helios Towers plc […]

Globacom launches Glo Smart Learning Suite to boost education in Nigeria

Aderemi OjekunleOctober 13, 2020

Saviour Adugba Nigerian indigenous telco Globacom has announced the availability of a new service dubbed Glo Smart Learning Suite aimed at helping to meet the e-learning needs of Nigerian students and institutions. In a statement made available to Business A.M., Glo said the Smart Learning Suite is made up of both an Enterprise Resource Planning […]

Lockdown: Airtel Nigeria partners FG to offer free online education

May 12, 2020

Lockdown: Airtel Nigeria partners FG to offer free online education

By Omobayo Azeez Airtel Nigeria says it is collaborating with the Federal Government to offer free qualitative education for students across the country during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Emeka Oparah, its director of corporate communications and corporate social responsibility (CSR) recently said this in Lagos. Oparah said the company had decided to waive data charges […]