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- 8 Sept 2022
MTN Group Hosts MTN Nigeria Board and Exco for Strategy Retreat
MTN Group this week hosted MTN Nigeria’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee in Johannesburg for a strategy retreat during which the leadership of the Group’s largest subsidiary reflected on…
- 16 Jul 2013
MTN Group joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
MTN Group, Africa’s largest multinational mobile telecoms provider operating in 21 countries across the region is the newest member of Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. MTN has a significant number of…
- 3 Dec 2020
MTN Group Appoints Omnicom Group As Global Marketing Services Provider
MTN Group has appointed Omnicom Group as its lead agency partner across its footprint following a competitive pitch process. cementing a partnership that commenced in 2017. Regarding the appointment,…
- 19 Nov 2021
MTN Groups Ceases Operations in Yemen to Focus on the African Market
MTN Group has announced its departure from Yemen in a bid to simplify their portfolio and focus on a pan-African strategy. MTN Group has announced the Group’s exit from our operation in Yemen in a…
- 17 Jul 2019
Yolanda Cuba joins MTN as Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer
MTN Group has announced appointment of Yolanda Cuba as Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer. Yolanda will join the MTN Group Executive Committee reporting to the Group CEO Rob Shuter.…
- 17 Jun 2021
MTN Group Leadership Storm Nigeria on a 3 Day Working Visit
A team of MTN Group leadership have arrived in Nigeria for a three-day landmark working visit. The delegation includes Ralph Mupita, ceo, MTN Group, and Mrs. Tsholo Molefe, cfo, MTN Group. Ralph…
- 1 Sept 2020
MTN Group Appoints New Audit Committee Chair, Acting GCFO
MTN has announced changes to the board of directors of MTN Group, as well as to the board of major subsidiary MTN South Africa. After six years as an independent non-executive director of MTN Group –…
- 3 May 2019
Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Vincent Rague and others join MTN Group
MTN Group has announced the appointments of His Royal Highness, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Emir of Kano, President John Kufuor, former President of Ghana to its Board of Directors effective July 2019. The…
- 11 Mar 2022
MTN Group Re-affirms Commitment in Nigeria
MTN Group this week committed to support a bi-national conference for businesses operating in South Africa and Nigeria during the first visit to its South African headquarters by the chairman of MTN…
- 7 Feb 2013
MTN Group Buys Out 50% Partner in Cypriot Subsidiary
South Africa's MTN Group of which MTN Nigeria is a part of has bought out its 50:50 partner in MTN Cyprus giving it sole ownership of the mobile network. Financial terms are not being disclosed but…
- 9 Jul 2023
MTN Group Leadership Pays Courtesy Visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Ralph Mupita, Group President and CEO of MTN, alongside board members and leadership of MTN Group and MTN Nigeria recently met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a courtesy visit. L-R: Chief…
- 15 Dec 2015
MTN Group, Telefonica Announce Strategic Partnership
MTN Group and Telefónica Group have announced a strategic partnership agreement for future cooperation and a combination of expertise, scale and market access. A joint statement released to the…
- 3 May 2018
MTN Group Adds 4m Subscribers in Q1of 2018
MTN added almost 4.1 million new group subscriber in the first quarter of the year. This according to a quarterly update from the telco for the three months to 31 March 2018. MTN saw its group…
- 22 Jul 2019
MTN Group Appoints Thato Motlanthe as Investor Relations Executive
MTN Group has appointed Thato Motlanthe to the position of Executive for Investor Relations, with effect from 1 September 2019. Thato replaces Nik Kershaw who left MTN Group at the end of May 2019,…
- 21 Oct 2021
Ralph Mupita, CEO MTN Group Hosts Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa in Johannesburg
Ralph Mupita, President and CEO of MTN Group, and Felleng Sekha, Chief Group Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Officer, MTN, on Thursday, October 21, 2021, met with Nigeria's new High Commissioner to…
- 25 Apr 2025
MTN Group Suffers Cyberattack
MTN Group, has alerted stakeholders that it has encountered a cyber security incident that resulted in unauthorised access to some customers' personal information in specific markets. The company,…
- 29 Oct 2018
Nigeria Boosts MTN Group’s Subscriber Base Growth Despite Sanction
The MTN group added 2.5 million new subscribers in the third quarter of the year, boosted by a strong performance in its embattled Nigerian operations and robust growth out of Ghana. However, MTN SA…
- 11 Mar 2020
MTN Group Records Commercial Momentum in Financial Report
MTN Group on Wednesday announced an encouraging set of results for the year ended 31 December 2019. The group also announced the stepping down of Rob Shuter, group president and CEO at the end of his…
- 15 May 2024
MTN Group Weighs Down by Nigerian Operations
MTN Group (MTNJ.J), Africa's biggest telecoms operator, reported on Tuesday an 18.8 per cent fall in first-quarter service revenue, weighed down by the performance of MTN Nigeria MTN, with 288…
- 5 Mar 2014
Nigeria Becomes Cash Cow for MTN Group
MTN Group, Africa's largest telecoms provider, reported a 27 percent rise in full-year earnings on Wednesday, but also revealed a dip in revenues in its home market South Africa due partly to fierce…
- 11 May 2021
Infosim® Formalize Partnership with MTN Group for Network Quality and Availability with StableNet®
Infosim® GmbH & Co. KG and MTN Group, together with its Operating Company (OpCos) MTN-Nigeria Communications PLC, have announced a strategic alliance for the implementation of StableNet®. Karl…
- 2 Feb 2017
MTN Group Ups Investment in IHS
The MTN Group will exchange its 51% interest in Nigeria Tower InterCo, the parent company of telecom tower operator INT Towers, for an additional shareholding in IHS Holding, the company announced.…
- 16 Apr 2018
MTN Group Meets FG over Nigerian IPO
MTN Group has met with the federal government as part of its commitment to Nigeria and assures the government of its commitment on the planned IPO and diversification of shareholding to Nigerians.…
- 17 Feb 2026
MTN Group Announces Proposed Full Acquisition of IHS Towers
MTN Group has revealed that the board of IHS Towers accepted its offer of US$8.50 per share, positioning MTN to boost its stake to 100% ownership following IHS's divestment of Latin American assets.…
- 28 Jan 2020
MTN Group @ Visit to Buhari Pledges Additional $1.6Bn to Nigerian Operations
MTN Group said it will commit the sum of $1.6 billion from its operations in Nigeria to strengthen its network and systems in the country. Mr Mcebisi Jonas, chairman, MTN Group, stated this after he…
- 12 Feb 2020
MTN Group Basks on Nigerian Growth
MTN Group Limited has said its improved operational performance across the business coupled with the proceeds from asset sales delivered healthy profit growth last year. Headline earnings per share…
- 8 Aug 2024
MTN Group Divests Guinea-Bissau Subsidiary to Telecel
MTN Group, has completed the sale of its smaller West African subsidiary Spacetel Guinea-Bissau S.A. (MTN Guinea-Bissau) after receiving all regulatory approvals. The telco stated that the sale to…
- 18 Mar 2020
COVID-19: MTN Group Speaks on Precautionary Measures
MTN Group has taken a series of precautionary measures to ensure continuity of services and the safety of its stakeholders including employees, customers, communities and suppliers against the…
- 3 Jul 2019
MTN Group adds GlobalConnect to portfolio of Opcos
MTN Group has announced that GlobalConnect, the company’s wholesale infrastructure company, is now an operating company (Opco) of the group. The Opco, headquartered in Dubai, will continue to…
- 7 Jun 2019
MTN Group Launches First MM Artificial Intelligence Service
MTN Group has launched Africa's first Mobile Money (MM) artificial intelligence service or 'chatbot'. In a statement the company confirmed that the chatbot went live in Ivory Coast in May and will be…