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Telcos reject 5% excise duty proposal, to meet Bosun Tijani to stop implementation
The Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) have rejected plans to reintroduce a 5 percent excise duty on the ...Meta deletes 1,600 accounts linked to ‘Yahoo Boys’
Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, says it has deleted another 1,600 groups linked to ‘Yahoo Boy’ ...FG unveils ‘$56m’ technology to monitor national grid performance
The federal government has unveiled an advanced supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technology (worth $56 million) to monitor the ...Telecom services risk disruption as 800 workers begin strike
Nigeria’s telecom sector risks shutdown as about 800 workers from the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association have embarked ...Ex-Punch editor, Oketola, to present book on digital economy
An ex-editor of The Punch Newspaper, Mr. Adedayo Oketola, is set to present a book he authored on the evolution ...NCC announces September 14 as ‘final deadline’ for NIN-SIM linkage
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced September 14 as the “final deadline” for the NIN-SIM linkage exercise. In a ...30 million GSM lines not properly linked to NIN — Telcos
The Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo, has stated that more than 30 million ...WhatsApp may exit Nigeria over $220m fine
One week after Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission imposed a $220 million fine on WhatsApp for a data ...NIN linkage: Telcos begin final phase of SIM disconnection
Telecommunication companies in Nigeria have commenced the final phase of disconnecting Subscriber Identity Module numbers (telephone lines) not linked to ...Osun, Delta fine Google, Meta $350m each for tax evasion
The tax authorities in Osun and Delta states have fined Google Nigeria and Meta Platforms, Inc.,150 million dollars and 200 ...
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