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Month: November 2021

Just in: MTN fulfils promise, opens offer to retail investors at Exchange

Following the successful fulfilment of all Exchange conditions, the leading GSM company in Nigeria, MTN Nigeria will effective tomorrow open from 8am, its offer to retail investors. Details gathered by Business Hilights showed that the offer will close at 5…

ICT

Continuous Dialogue Critical to Telecoms Industry Challenges – Danbatta

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has said that continuous dialogues between the regulator and its various licensees is central to finding lasting solutions to issues negatively impacting…

Uzoka lights up UBA Foundation’s Garden ahead of Yuletide

Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa, through its UBA Foundation has been spreading joy across Africa for many years as they continue to give back to the underprivileged in the communities in which they operate. At the UBA Foundation…

Energy

Nigerian Content Development: Learning from Chevron’s Success Story

The Nigerian oil and gas industry is strategic to the overall socio-economic development of the country. Nigerian Content (“NC”) development is critical for the nation as it progresses in its quest to acquire oil and gas technology and build indigenous…

ICT

NCC trains BUK students, others on rights, privileges of telecoms consumers

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has hosted another edition of Campus Conversation (CC), at the weekend in Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where officials of the Commission engaged in intensive enlightenment of students of the varsity on their rights and privileges…

Energy Community Meets to Advance Off-Grid Renewables over Climate Goals

Organised by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the fifth edition of the International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC) will take place virtually next week from 7 to 9 December 2021. Now open for registrations, this year’s IOREC will shed…

ICT

Danbatta Tasks NODITS on Effective Actualisation of Mandates

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has urged the Nigeria Office for Developing the Indigenous Telecom Sector (NODITS) on the need to ensure effective delivery of its…

Jamoh, Danish envoy meet on pirates killing

Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has met with the Danish Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Sune Krogstrup, on the reported killing of pirates in the Gulf of Guinea by a Danish…

ICT

NITDA donates digital kits to Nigerian students

As Nigeria joins the rest of the world in commemorating the 2021 Universal Children’s Day, many students smiled home with brand new Laptop and Desk Computers as part of efforts the National Information Technology Development Agency NITDA at improving and…

ICT

Nigeria set to reap from $4tn global digital service market

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) have forged an alliance that could enable Nigeria to benefit from the yearly $4.7 trillion exportation of digital service. This alliance is in line with the Digital…