Skip to content
CBN proposes FG adoption of eNaira for payment of salaries, pensions, welfare benefits
Federal Government is considering a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) proposal to commence paying civil servants’ salaries, pensions, social welfare benefits, in addition contractors via the eNaira platform in order to boost the adoption of Nigeria’s digital currency. The eNaira…
FCCPC denies FG directive approving 9 new airtime credit operators
Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has dismissed reports claiming federal government, through the agency, has approved the entry of nine new operators into Nigeria’s airtime credit market. It would be recalled that the Wireless Application Service Providers Association of…
Service providers accuse FCCPC of violating court order on enforcement of DEON regulation
Fresh from securing a High Court order restraining the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) from enforcing the controversial Digital Economy and Online Lending (DEON) Consumer Lending Regulations, the Wireless Application Service Providers Association of Nigeria (WASPAN) has accused the…
Nigeria’s demographics drive surge in digital infrastructure investment
Frank Okon Nigeria’s rapidly growing population and youthful demographics are emerging as major catalysts for investment in digital infrastructure, with industry experts increasingly describing the country’s data centre boom as a demographic story rather than simply a technology trend. As…
ALTON welcomes FCCPC’s suspension of DEON regulation
Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has welcomed the decision by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to suspend enforcement of the controversial Digital, Electronic, Online, or Non-traditional Consumer Lending (DEON) regulations against mobile network operators…
Confusion, as MNOs resume data, airtime borrowing offers to Nigerians
Barely weeks after the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) had ordered Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in the country to discontinue their airtime and data borrowing offers to customers nationwide, checks by the Oracle Intelligence, Friday, showed that two…
Nigeria to review telcomms Act 2003, as NCC kicks off workshop on proposed National Telecommunications Policy 2026
Nigeria has approved processes for the review of the Nigerian Communications Act 2003, just as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has kicked off discourse on the proposed National Telecommunications Policy 2026. It would be recalled that the NCC had approached…
Court grants eNaira exclusive ownership rights to CBN
Following months of controversies over rights control, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has granted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) full ownership of the eNaira digital currency platform. It would be recalled that the eNaira digital currency platform was…
FG to commission digital switch over project, June 17
Federal Government, through the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has announced that Nigeria’s long-awaited Digital Switch Over (DSO) project is now fully ready for nationwide launch, describing it as a major milestone in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s…
Dangote’s East Africa Refinery, 20,000MW power plans signal continental expansion
Ziggy Ojiegbe Plans by Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote to replicate his $20 billion Lagos refinery complex in East Africa emerged as one of the defining announcements at the just concluded Africa Forward Summit hosted by the governments of Kenya and…
