Nigeria’s telecommunications sector has witnessed a robust recovery, with active subscriptions surging to 169.3 million in January 2025, up from 164.9 million in December 2024. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) made this known in an industry statistics on its website. The telecoms regulator said that this robust recovery followed a period of decline, which saw…

Telecoms giant, MTN, has revealed that out of the estimated N160 billion Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) debt owed telecoms operators by Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) as of November 2024, its share is N74 billion.

The Federal Government and MTN have met to strike a deal on the quality and speedy delivery of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway project under the Tax Credit Scheme, aimed at completing it by May 2025 for commissioning. Speaking at the meeting in Abuja, the Minister of Works, David Umahi, reiterated the government's unwavering commitment to ensuring…

Vice-President Kashim Shettima said on Wednesday that posterity would judge leaders of the country harshly if they allowed public schools to collapse. Shettima said this at the public presentation of tablets donated by the MTN Nigeria Communications Plc to students of Government Science Secondary School, Pyakasa, Maitama, Abuja. He said President Bola Tinubu was passionate…

MTN Nigeria says it has donated 4,600 tablets to be shared in some public secondary schools across the six geopolitical zones in the country. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, MTN, Nigeria, Dr Ernest Ndukwe, made the disclosure during the maiden empowerment programme for Government Secondary Schools in Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja. The…

Business leaders in Enugu State converged at Villa Toscana Sports Bar over the weekend for the unveiling of MTN’s ‘Go Make A Difference (Go M.A.D.)’ Enugu edition. The event cleverly tapped into the spirit of love and giving, as guests and hosts renewed their commitment to making a positive impact through small acts of kindness…

As part of the ongoing tariff hike and restructuring, telecommunications firm, MTN has pegged call rate on its pulse bundle at N13.8 per minute from N7.8 per minute, which represents a 76.92 per cent increase.

Data finishes faster than money these days. One moment, you have a full subscription, and the next, you're staring at that dreaded "You have used up 90% of your data" message. The struggle is real, especially when you still have important things to do online. And now, with telecom companies and citizens at loggerheads over…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded an immediate reversal of the 50 per cent tariff hike implemented on Tuesday by telecommunication companies. The NLC lamented that the companies implemented the new tariff despite an earlier agreement reached with the Federal Government and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) that gave birth to a 10-man committee…

Telecommunications operators have recorded mixed fortunes following the exchange of about 55,388 subscribers through the mobile network portability (MNP) scheme in 2024.

Legal practitioner and a shareholder of MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, Emeka Nnubia, has appealed the judgment of a Federal court in Lagos, on the powers of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to prevent anti-competitive practices.

Telecommunications operators may have begun the implementation of the Federal Government-approved 50 per cent tariff hike, as subscribers, especially on the MTN network, woke up Tuesday to see that the price of its data subscriptions had gone up. This tariff hike came a bit earlier than expected, as the telecom operators had planned for implementation…