Segun Ogunsanya
6 May
That Nigerians are making giant strides in literally every field of human endeavor across the globe is no longer a subject for debate. What is perhaps uncertain is how they are bringing their individual professional exploits to bear on the development of the country.
4 Feb
African development is in the midst of a digital revolution, which is exciting, different and disruptive, including in the critical area of education. March will see a much-anticipated event, hosted at the University of Rwanda.
12 May 2022
Growth in data, voice and mobile money subscriptions have pushed Airtel’s revenue in Nigeria by 27.7 per cent with the group subsequently declaring $4.7 billion revenue.
9 Feb 2022
Operations of the Nigerian arm of Airtel Africa aided the telecommunications firm’s revenue by over 29 per cent in the nine-month period ended December 31, 2021.
22 Dec 2021
Despite not emerging as one of the winners of the 3.5GHz spectrum for the deployment of Fifth-Generation (5G) network in Nigeria, Airtel has reiterated its commitment towards the enthronement of a robust broadband regime in the country.
29 Oct 2021
Airtel's Nigerian operations added 32.4 per cent revenue growth to the cumulative earnings of the telecommunications firm in the first half of the year ended September 2021.
21 Jul 2021
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has reaffirmed its commitment to empowering and uplifting vulnerable people, building communities and creating value for all its stakeholders as it announces the commencement....
16 Feb 2021
The Advertisers Association (ADVAN) is set to host business leaders to debate on requisite leadership capabilities in disruptive times.
23 Dec 2020
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the commencement of its annual ‘Five Days of Love’ Yuletide initiative, which provides palliative packs to 5,000 persons across five Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in five cities in the country over a period of five days. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria, Mr.…
6 Aug 2020
A telecommunications firm, Airtel Nigeria, will be spending N300 million to support the fight against COVID-19, being the final part of the N1.9 billion it pledged in April.
19 Dec 2019
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria has kicked off its annual Christmas feeding programme dubbed ‘Airtel Five Days of Love’ as it rolled out the drums...
6 Jul 2019
Ahead of its secondary listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Airtel Africa Plc. has unveiled plans to distribute 80 percent of its free cash flow as dividend to shareholders....
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