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More Africa NewsKonnect Africa offers Broadband Internet Connection to all Isolation Centers in Sokoto State, Nigeria to fight against Covid-19

July 7, 2020by myles0

Konnect, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications (NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL) (www.Eutelsat.com), pursues its ambition to connect the entire African continent to very high speed Internet, and more particularly in this context of the current health crisis. Konnect has recently proposed to offer broadband internet connection to isolation centers to fight against Covid-19 in Sokoto, a north-western state...

More Africa NewsVodacom Nigeria Appoints New MD

July 7, 2020by myles0

Vodacom Business Africa announced that it has appointed Valentine Chime as the new managing director for its Nigeria operations. Chime joins the Company from Aruwa Capital, a private equity company investing across West Africa. Prior to this, he was at Kaizen Venture Partners, a private equity company focused on distressed assets. He has held various...

More Africa NewsNigeria: NITDA Seeks Funding for Tech Start-Ups

July 6, 2020by myles0

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has called on financial institutions in the country to give loans to Small and Medium Enterprises especially the Financial Technology (FinTech) start-ups. NITDA’s Director General Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi who disclosed this in a webinar organised by FinTech said increasing lending to the start-ups would promote financial inclusiveness...

More Africa NewsMainOne Marks 10th Anniversary

June 29, 2020by myles0

MainOne, a provider of wholesale and enterprise connectivity and data centre services, is celebrating 10 years of delivering innovative, world-class service in West Africa. The company, in 2010, launched its operations with the inauguration of the first private submarine cable on the West Coast of Africa. According to MainOne, the company had invested over $400...

More Africa NewsInfobip’s Conversations gives Nigeria’s Ikeja Electric a boost

June 25, 2020by myles0

Cloud communication solutions provider Infobip has rolled out its omni-channel digital cloud contact centre platform ‘Conversations’ at Ikeja Electric, Nigeria’s largest power distribution company. According to a statement released to the media, Ikeja Electric, which provides power to over 800 000 households in Lagos, is set to launch Conversations, which enables businesses to integrate the...

More Africa NewsNigeria: FG to Unveil 5-Year Plan On Digital Economy Tomorrow

June 22, 2020by myles0

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami will tomorrow unveil a five – year Strategic Management Plan (SMP) aimed at creating a seamless strategy to actualise digital economy in the country. The SMP will leverage on the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy as well as the new National Broadband Plan...

More Africa NewsNigeria: New operator targets Nigeria’s $80 billion telecoms market

June 19, 2020by myles0

A new telecommunications operator is poised to enter Nigeria’s $80 billion telecoms industry as the fifth largest firm. Specifically, Orange, the largest telecommunications operator in France, says it is making plans to expand its operations to Nigeria, and South Africa. Orange Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Stéphane Richard, told Les Echos newspaper that the company believes it would...

More Africa NewsNigeria: Internet Penetration Rises to 138.7 Million

June 18, 2020by myles0

The total number of internet subscriptions recorded across mobile, fixed wired and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as at April 2020, reached 138.7 million. This is however, as broadband penetration, which drives internet access and connectivity, dropped from 39.90 per cent in March 2020 to 39.58 per cent in April 2020, according to the latest...

More Africa News NetworksNigerian Communications Commission Seeks Stakeholders Input Into 5G Deployment

June 15, 2020by Adrian Hall0

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is requesting input from industry stakeholders to feed into its 5G deployment policy framework.

More Africa NewsThe International Tax Rule and Nigeria’s Bid to Tax Amazon, Facebook and Other Foreign Digital Coys

June 11, 2020by Adrian Hall0

In an amendment to the Finance Act bill, Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, has mandated companies from outside the country to pay an income tax as long as they get paid for services rendered in the country.

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