Investments in Fourth Generation (4G) in Nigeria and Africa dropped by seven per cent in 2020, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has said.

Nigeria has ranked 47th on the global cybersecurity index (GCI) 2020. This is even as the global telecoms body ranked Mauritius, Tanzania and Ghana respectively, ahead of Nigeria, in countries in Africa, tackling cybercrimes headlong.

For countries in the African region including Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, among others to maximise benefits of the fifth generation (5G) network, some key policy recommendations must come to the fore.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and International Telecommunications Union (ITU), are worried about the lack of access by children in West and Central Africa to the Internet,

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an arm of the UNITED Nations in charge of global telecommunications, has said that 51 per cent of the world population was online in 2019.

United Nations arm in charge of global telecommunications, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has frowned at rising dearth of digital skills.

Ericsson and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have agreed to a global partnership that will provide internet connectivity mapping to educational institutions in Nigeria and 34 other countries.

About $428 billion is needed to connect three billion unreached to the Internet by 2030, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has disclosed.

United Nation’s arm in charge of global telecommunications, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is worried that rural and remote areas of many countries worldwide continue to be sparsely covered in terms of broadband connectivity.

The World Bank, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Global System for Mobile Telecommunications Association (GSMA), and the World Economic Forum (WEF), have called for increased bandwidth, congestion management across the globe in this period of COVID-19 pandemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)​, are set to work with telecommunication companies to text people directly on their mobile phones with vital health messaging to help protect them from COVID-19.

United Nation’s arm concerned with regulating global communications, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has backed science on the controversies surrounding the deployment of 5G technology.