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Facebook, a social networking platform, is seeking partnership opportunities with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to improve connectivity. Ibrahim Ba led a delegation from the company to a conference at the NCC on Thursday. Ba said there’s a need for further infrastructure expansion in Nigeria to fill the connectivity gap that still exists in the country. He said Facebook has ...

To enlist Nigeria in the league of smart cities, the Nigeria Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) has advised states to emulate Lagos State government and commit more funds into infrastructural development. The institution noted that infrastructural development is the basis for evolvement of the concept of smart city across the world hence, the need to prioritise such investment ...

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned against vandalism of telecommunication infrastructure, stressing that the act is compromising Federal Government’s efforts toward achieving 30 per cent broadband penetration in 2018. Miss Helen Obi, the commission’s Head of Zonal Operations in Niger, said this at a one-day sensitisation programme on “Protection of Telecommunication Infrastructure” on Thursday. According to her, telecom infrastructure serve ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) says it has mobilised the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to protect the equipment and installations of leading digital mobile operator, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. This followed the picketing of the MTN head office in Lagos and other offices in different parts of the country on Monday by the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress ...

Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice- Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), on Thursday said Nigeria’s economic development could only be facilitated and accelerated by the availability of infrastructure. The executive vice-chairman made this assertion during the Business Journal’s 10th Anniversary Lecture and Award held at Sheraton, Ikeja. The theme of the event was: “Infrastructure and Economic Growth: Exploring the Strategic ...