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1 week ago | 
newsexpressngr.com | Funmilola Gboteku
News Express |18th Jun 2025 | 19 MTN, Airtel, Globacom and 9Mobile logos MTN, Airtel, Globacom and 9Mobile logosBy FUNMILOLA GBOTEKUTelecom subscribers in Nigeria will now be charged directly by their mobile network operators for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services, starting Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsexpressngr.com | Funmilola Gboteku
News Express |10th Jun 2025 | 8Communications Minister, Dr Bosun TijaniCommunications Minister, Dr Bosun TijaniBy FUNMILOLA GBOTEKUThe Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy has partnered with Meta to launch the Llama Impact Accelerator, promoting impactful AI development in Nigeria. The Minister, Dr Bosun Tijani, confirmed this in a statement released on Tuesday by Ms Sade Dada, Head of Public Policy for Anglophone West Africa at Meta.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsverge.com | Funmilola Gboteku
Airtel Nigeria, a telecommunications company has reaffirmed its commitment to environmental sustainability with a nationwide campaign to combat plastic pollution. Airtel made this known in a statement on Friday in Lagos. It said that the campaign tagged, #UnPlasticAfrica, began on June 3 with mobilising of employees across the company’s six operating regions for a week of education, advocacy, and cleanup activities.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsexpressngr.com | Niger Commissioner |Funmilola Gboteku
News Express |4th Jun 2025 | 12By FUNMILOLA GBOTEKUThe Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has taken a significant step toward bolstering the nation’s cybersecurity defenses, unveiling plans for a comprehensive framework to safeguard its rapidly expanding telecommunications industry.
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1 month ago | 
newsngr.com.ng | Stellamaris Ashinze |Funmilola Gboteku
By Stellamaris Ashinze and Funmilola GbotekuThe National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Thursday emphasised the need for Nigeria to leverage emerging technologies to drive socio-economic growth and development. The Director-General, NITDA, Dr Kashifu Inuwa, said this in his keynote address at the 2025 IoT West Africa, Data Centre Cloud Expo, Power and Water Nigeria Annual Exhibition and Conference.
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1 month ago | 
newsexpressngr.com | Funmilola Gboteku
News Express |8th May 2025 | 32By FUNMILOLA GBOTEKUNigeria’s telecommunications sector witnessed a notable decline in internet users following a 50 per cent tariff hike on voice, data, and SMS services implemented in January 2025. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) made this known in industry statistics on its website. According to the report, the industry lost approximately one million internet users in February, with the user base shrinking from 142.16 million to 141.25 million.
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1 month ago | 
newsverge.com | Funmilola Gboteku
PalmPay, a mobile banking platform, has released its first quarter (Q1) report which indicates that it processes 15 million transactions on a daily basis out of its 35 million registered users. PalmPay made this known during a media roundtable organised to discuss the Q1 report on Wednesday. The report emphasised that the transaction volume underscored PalmPay’s deep integration into its users’ financial lives, with an average of 50 transactions per user each month.
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1 month ago | 
newsverge.com | Funmilola Gboteku
Airtel Africa, on Monday announced that it has entered an agreement with SpaceX to bring Starlink’s high-speed internet services to its customers in Africa. Airtel Africa said this in a statement. It said that currently, SpaceX had acquired requisite licenses in nine out of 14 countries within Airtel Africa’s footprint, noting that operating licenses for the other five countries were being processed.
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1 month ago | 
newsverge.com | Funmilola Gboteku
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has announced a robust start to 2025, reporting a substantial 16 per cent year-over-year surge in revenue for the first quarter, reaching $42.31 billion. Meta made this known in its first quarter (Q1) 2025 report released on Thursday. It said that on a constant currency basis, the revenue growth would have been even higher at 19 per cent, underscoring the underlying strength of the business.
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1 month ago | 
newsexpressngr.com | Funmilola Gboteku
News Express |30th Apr 2025 | 8By FUNMILOLA GBOTEKUSamsung Electronics says in its forecast for the second half of 2025 that the smartphone market will decline year-on-year, given the macroeconomic uncertainty caused by the US tariff policies. Samsung’s Corporate Mobile eXperience Vice President, Daniel Araujo was quoted as saying this in the organisation’s 2025 First Quarter (Q1) Report, which was made available on Wednesday.
