broadband penetration target
24 Jan
With some months away from Nigeria’s 70 per cent broadband penetration target set for 2025, about 31 states remain unserved and underserved, a consequence of a sluggish investment in fibre optic cable deployment .
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Telecoms operators have described the refusal of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to pay the debts, estimated at N250 billion for the use of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) as a huge disincentive to Nigeria’s emerging digital economy.
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Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos Special Offences Court, Ikeja, has admitted an iPhone belonging to social media celebrity Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, as evidence in his ongoing trial over alleged money laundering.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has decried the exclusion of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) from meaningful political participation and decision-making processes in the country.
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Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to achieving the goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and called on state governments and the private sector to scale up interventions aimed at preventing HIV transmission among children.
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Head Coach of the national U-17 girls’ football team, Flamingos, Bankole Olowookere, has invited 25 players to the team’s camp ahead of the WAFU B U-17 Girls’ Cup scheduled to hold in Ghana from December 12 to 26, 2024.
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In a bid to attract greater investment in its gas sector, Nigeria’s Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has assured stakeholders of its commitment to addressing issues surrounding the implementation of the 0.5 per cent levy imposed under the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said the country’s metering gap remains significant despite the installation of 3.03 million meters since the privatisation of the sector in 2013.
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Sir: Money is not everything, but in many instances, and especially in a country like Nigeria, where poverty is systemic, it is close to being everything.
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The Enugu State government has called on private investors in Nigeria and the Diaspora to invest in healthcare infrastructure to encourage medical tourism to the country.