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Starting from next Monday, Nigerians can only acquire or register new SIM cards only at telecoms companies’ outlets under a government plan to ban sale of phone lines by the ubiquitous umbrella ...

The Nigerian telecoms industry is now a zero-tolerance zone for improperly-registered SIM cards following the deactivation of 2.2 million affected lines nationwide, the industry regulator says. Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice ...

Made-in-Nigeria SIM cards will develop the local ICT sector in 2015 and beyond says Dr Umar Bindir, Director-General, National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) of Nigeria, in this article for the Nigeria ...

Nigeria’s teledensity has recorded a sharp decline in 2024 following the nationwide enforcement of the National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) linkage policy. According to the Nigerian Communications Commission’s ...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is warning Nigerians to take urgent precautions following the discovery of a critical security flaw affecting embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) technology, popularly known ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says there are no unregistered SIM cards operating in the country’s telecoms networks, reaffirming the integrity of its centralised SIM registration and verification system. Dr Aminu Maida, ...

South Africa’s MTN Group is rolling out biodegradable SIM cards across Africa, beginning in Rwanda, under plans to curb plastic waste in the telecoms sector.

Nigerian phone subscribers have been given a last window of opportunity for their identity registration following a September 14 deadline set by the telecoms regulator. 

YouTube premium subscribers across Africa can now use Verve debit cards for their subscriptions following a payments collaboration between owners of the streaming service and Interswitch.

MTN has announced the closure of its physical stores nationwide today following subscribers’ outrage that greeted the telecoms regulator’s directive that telecoms companies should bar unregistered phone lines.