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Infraco digging
ICT

Exclusive: Infracos, telecoms yet to receive any notice on slashing RoW by NGF

Whereas many telecoms stakeholders had expressed happiness on the January assurance from states’ governors to crash their respective charges levied per square meter of Right of Way (RoW) for laying of fibre optic cables, nothing or no official statement of…

NCC Atcon visit
ICT

Infracos differ on Minister’s claims that VP convinced governors on RoW

Barely two days after the Minister of Communications, Barr Adebayo Shittu had claimed that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had convinced state governors in buying into the initiative of making fees imposed on Right of Way (RoW) flexible to deepen broadband…

Gbenga Adebayo
ICT

VP’s advice to states’ on raising IGR at all costs needs emphasis on telecoms—ALTON

The Executive Secretary of Association of Licenced Telecoms of Nigeria (ALTON), Mr. Gbolahan Awonuga has called on the federal government to step up the new campaign instituted by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on advising states’ governments against falling into the…

danbatta
ICT

Kano joins Lagos, other in RoW access to telecoms, grants MTN N221m waiver

Another State, Kano has joined the likes of Lagos and Bayelsa to provide soft landing for telecoms wishing to deploy fibre optic cables along its streets and major roads by granting permit fee of N221m to MTN Nigeria. This was…