Nigeria Communications Commission NCC
8 Dec 2021
Nigerian states and the federal government have been using surveillance technologies to snoop on citizens' data and communications on their devices, according to a report. A report by the Action Group on Free Civic Space said the government is using the technologies to track down rights activists, journalists, opposition politicians, and other targeted citizens. The…
26 Jan 2021
Access to the website of Nigerian online newspaper Peoples Gazette has been restricted by mobile telecommunications companies including MTN, Glo, and 9mobile. Accessing the website using Airtel data service was intermittent as at press time. The newspaper was founded in 2020 Samuel Ogundipe, and its brand of hard-hitting headlines has pitted it against Nigerian government…
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Nigeria government on Thursday said it has reduced the prices of internet data by more than 50 percent. Communications and digital economy minister Isa Ibrahim Pantami disclosed that the slashed data prices came to effect since November 2020. “The average cost of 1GB of data has reduced from the January 2020 cost of N1,000 to…
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