How insurgency botches 700MW schemes in Adamawa
Apart from displacing millions, deaths and collapse of businesses and infrastructure, another big loss trailing escalation of insurgency in the North East and mainly Adamawa State is the forced suspension of two critical power schemes. These include planned building of…
W’Bank efforts bring back 340MW from Kainji Dam
New World Bank intervention through the Water Resources Development and Sustainable Ecosystems Management Programme (WRDSEMP) in Kainji hydro power plant has raise the output capacity of the plant by 340 megawatts. Project Manager at Project Management Unit (PMU) of the…
Las Vegas: 59 dead, 527 injured at worst mass shootings in US history
What can be described as the worst mass shooting by one man in United States History took place on Sunday night midway during the 2017 edition of the at the Route 91 Harvest open air festival concert in Las Vegas,…
How pressure weakened NCC to dump cost-based research on DPF
Revelation have emerged implying that pressure from a section of the Main Network Operators (MNOs) and lack of independence in policy implementation by the telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is currently causing shocks in the telecom’s data segment…
NCC wins award @ITU as Ghana’s NCA rakes in foreign investors’
As the 2017 International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecom World events in Busan, South Korea ends, West African countries in attendance are now counting what were in their bags. Whereas Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was honoured with the valuable partner Award…
Power, manpower frustrating USPF ICT knowledge centres in rural schools
Contrary to insinuations that many schools and communities provided with ICT knowledge centres by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), through its Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), have not put them to adequate use, Business Hilights investigations have revealed that lack…
Glo shifts attention to good citizenship in new episode of Prof Johnbull
The new episode of the TV Drama Series, Professor Johnbull, coming on the bills of grandmasters of data and fully integrated telecoms outfit, Globacom, pays attention to good citizenship, a situation where everyone takes collective responsibility for the good and…
Nigerian nation @ 57 under Muhammadu Buhari, a BH Analysis
From the buildup of his 2015 general elections campaign that brought him to power, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has harped on fighting insecurity, corruption and growing the economy. A cursory look tends to show that whereas fight on…
Multistakeholdership key to national cybersecurity strategies—Shola Taylor
Just as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) are about to forge a common front to fight electronic fraud driven by SIM swaps, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Shola Taylor,…
Cost differential in fixing infrastructure in Nigeria, Ghana worrisome
Whereas the Government of Ghana, through the Public-Private Partnership Coordinator at the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Isaac Oware-Aboagye, has said a study conducted in 2016 indicated that Government needed 7.3 billion dollars to improve infrastructure deficit in the country, there…
