LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Citizens Common Advocacy International, an Abuja based non-profit has approached the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for an order of interim injunction to stop the implementation of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) regulation directing telecommunication companies to disconnect mobiles lines of Nigerians by 30th December 2020 for failure to link National…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government to block SIM cards that are not synchronized with the National Identity Numbers, NIN. The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, gave telecommunications operators in the country two weeks to block SIM Cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers, NIN. This was made known in a statement by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Telecommunication operators in Nigeria said yesterday that the directive by the Federal Government that cost of data should be reviewed downward in five days is “unrealistic and insensitive” considering the high operating cost in the country. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, yesterday, directed the Board…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Communication Commission has stated that persons must provide his/her National Identity Management Commission, NIMC National Identity Number, NIN in order to register for GSM telephone SIM card. Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, NCC, who made the statement at the third annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers…