•Subsea cables Damage to at least three subsea cables off the West Coast of Africa yesterday disrupted internet services in Nigeria, Ghana and other countries across the continent. Telecommunications subscribers and bank users, as well as your soar away online newspaper The Frontier, were stranded for hours as the disruption paralysed digital ...
A Lagos-based activist and lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has dragged telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria as well as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to a Lagos Federal High Court, challenging the recent barring of phone lines of citizens. Ogungbeje joined Dr. Aminu Maida, the Chief Executive Officer of NCC, and MTN Ni...
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, said yesterday that SIM cards previously linked to the National Identification Numbers, NIN, were barred because they were bad. It also explained that the job of using NIN to track kidnappers currently terrorising the country is that of the police. NCC spokesman, Reuben Muoka, who explained on Chann...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), today, explained why some telecommunications subscribers who previously linked their SIM cards to their National Identification Numbers (NINs) have their mobile lines barred. NCC spokesman, Reuben Muoka, said “people who probably didn’t get a cleared or verified NIN” have been barred because “the e...
•Oloyede The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has called for ruthless sanctions against social media abusers to serve as deterrent. Oloyede also submitted that Nigeria does not need a new law to tackle social media abuse as there are relevant laws to address the challenges, reports Daily Tru...
The Nigerian Communications Communication (NCC) has said that it introduced the same codes for the 224 million active mobile lines in the country in order to authenticate and protect the identity of users. It also said it has directed telecom operators as a matter of national security to bar any mobile line that have not […]
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, has restrained telecom operators in Nigeria from deactivating or barring any line or SIM whose user was not linked to the National Identification Number (NIN). The court issued the restraining order on February 22, 2024, while ruling on a motion for the restraining orders...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has appointed new leaderships for three agencies under the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. According to a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, the affected agencies include the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the Nigerian Communicati...
With major elections looming, Meta’s policy on deep fake content is in urgent need of updating, an oversight body said today, in a decision about a manipulated video of US President Joe Biden. A video of Biden voting with his adult granddaughter, manipulated to falsely appear that he inappropriately touched her chest, went viral last […...
The Attueyi Coding Academy in collaboration with its partners, corporate sponsors and philanthropists announce its scholarship program for indigent, smart young Nigerians looking to start a career in tech. These scholarships will cover 100% of the tuition fees for the very top performing applicants in the entry tests. The next level performers...