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- 17 Aug 2025
NGF Plans Investopedia to Showcase Investments in 36 States
Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) will launch its ‘Investopedia’, a platform designed to showcase investment opportunities across Nigeria’s 36 states. Yunusa Abdullahi, director of Media and Strategic…
- 20 Aug 2025
NGF Launches Digital Platform to Bridge $100bn Infrastructure Gap
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has launched a digital platform to attract local and international investors to Nigeria’s sub-national infrastructure projects and close the country’s estimated…
- 19 Nov 2015
MTN Must Pay $5.2Bn Fine- NGF
Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) rose from their meeting on Thursday and commended the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the N1.04 trillion fine (some $5.2 billion) imposed on MTN, Nigeria’s…
- 31 Jan 2025
Anambra's Digital Transformation Journey Highlighted at NGF DPI Workshop
In a bold step towards enhancing digital governance and revenue automation, the Anambra State ICT Agency, alongside the Anambra Internal Revenue Service (AIRS), participated in the Digital Public…
- 3 Sept 2024
NAICOM Engages Governors’ Forum to Enhance Penetration
The Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), Mr. Olusegun Ayo Omosehin, has opened up discussions with the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) in a bid…
- 7 May 2026
NDPC Makes Bold Move to Secure Government, State Data
Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has signed separate Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) to strengthen data…
- 20 May 2015
PDP, APC Govs Unite Against Jonathan, Asks FG to Account for $20Bn Oil Money
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has asked , Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, coordinating minister of the Economy and minister of Finance, to account for $20 billion oil revenue. The governors insisted…
- 27 May 2021
NLC to Strike if FG Implements Proposed N408.5/Litre Fuel Price
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has opposed the proposal by the Nigeria Governors Forum(NGF) that price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, be raised from N162/litre to N408.5/litre. The…
- 6 Apr 2020
Governors, MTN Partner to Halt Spread of COVID-19 with Data
Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and MTN Nigeria have agreed to use the vulnerability model to drive a data-driven approach to stopping the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Both…
- 1 May 2020
MTN Nigeria Denies Sharing Identifiable User Data
MTN Nigeria has refuted claims it is sharing identifiable customer data with third parties as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to IT Web Africa. Digital rights campaigners,…
- 26 Jul 2026
NCDC Waxes Worriedly over States’ Preparedness for Ebola, Other Diseases
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has raised concerns over gaps in states’ preparedness to tackle outbreaks of Ebola, cholera, Lassa fever and other infectious diseases,…
- 22 Apr 2020
COVID-19: Governors Agree on 14-Day Inter-State Lockdown
The 36 state governors, on Wednesday, unanimously resolved to adopt a two-week inter-state lockdown as part of measures aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus across the country. The…
- 18 Nov 2013
Oppositions Ask FG to Account for Missing $5Bn
Opposition parties have challenged the federal government to account for the $5 billion, which has reportedly disappeared from the nation’s Excess Crude Account (ECA) The New Peoples Democratic Party…
- 28 Oct 2025
NITDA DG Pitches State Governors on Accelerating Tech-Driven Inclusive Growth
To unlock inclusive growth for all Nigerians, the country must forge a deeper digital alliance. That was the core message from Kashifu Inuwa CCIE, Director General of the National Information…
- 17 Dec 2021
World Bank Rolls out Cash Transfer Programme in Nigeria
The World Bank is rolling out an $800m facility designed to fund a large-scale Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Nigeria, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum hinted in its 36th teleconference meeting…
- 3 Aug 2016
Telcos in Trouble over Multiple Taxes- NCC
Prof. Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), yesterday lamented that multiple taxation and regulation, constraints in securing approval for right of…
- 22 Oct 2015
NCC Says Unfriendly Taxes Inhibitive to Broadband Growth
With unalloyed interest in deepening broadband growth in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has sought governments and their agencies understandings on the need to discontinue…
- 19 Oct 2022
NCC Rallies Governors for Broadband Awareness Forum
All Nigeria State Governors are set to discuss how to empower the citizens with latest telecoms technologies as they partake in the maiden edition of Broadband Technical Awareness Forum for Governors…
- 13 Nov 2025
Senate Seeks Full Disclosure in Probes Stamp Duty Collections
Senate has requested the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) to provide detailed information on revenue generated from Stamp Duty payments. Sen. Aliyu Wadada,…
- 21 Jul 2020
MTN, Samsung Support Fight Against COVID-19 with Communication Gadgets and SIM Cards
As part of ongoing drive to support the Federal Government’s continued effort against the spread of the corona virus, Samsung and MTN Nigeria have provided communication support to health workers…
- 2 Nov 2015
NCC Plans New Spectrum Licences in 2016
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on yesterday said that it would issue new telecom spectrum licences in 2016, to create robust internet infrastructure in all the 36 states in the country.…
- 28 Nov 2015
NCC Boss Pledges End to Multiple Regulations, Taxes
If talks with the Nigerian Governors Forum (MGF) are anything to go by, multiple regulations, taxes and right of way issues will be over soon, according to Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice…
- 6 Feb 2016
NCC, GSMA Open Talks on Capacity Building to Grow Mobile Networks
Global System of Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), the umbrella body for all Mobile operators, Equipment manufacturers, Vendors among others recently opened talks with the Nigerian…
- 23 Jun 2019
Ekiti, AfDB to Partner for Infrastructural Development
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has expressed its readiness to provide technical and financial support for Ekiti State Government to upgrade its infrastructure, including fixing the Ado…
- 1 Nov 2019
NUJ Rejects FG’s Plan to Regulate Social Media
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has rejected the step by the federal government to regulate social media operators in the country. The union stated its position in a communique signed by…
- 21 Aug 2020
COVID-19: Danbatta Lists Measures to Mitigate Impact on QoS Delivery
Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice chairman and chief executive officer (EVC/CEO), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has listed critical regulatory actions that have been taken by the…
- 24 Jan 2020
Facebook Calls for Robust Infrastructure Deployment to Bolster Digital Culture, Seeks NCC Partnership
Facebook, a digital services provider has called for governments’ collaboration and partnership for infrastructure deployment to strengthen connectivity, enhance businesses and bolster citizens'…
- 3 Apr 2020
MTN Nigeria Supports Fight against COVID-19 with Free Services
MTN Nigeria, has pledged to support to both federal and state governments with communication systems, analytical response, and risk profiling. This is in a collaborative effort to augment the efforts…
- 14 Jul 2020
NCC Resolves 98% Consumer Complaints in 15 Months
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that 98 per cent of the total service-related complaints received from telecoms consumers within a 15-month period, spanning January 2019 to April…
- 16 Apr 2013
Aliyu, Niger Gov. says Oil Wealth is Feeding Corruption
Federal government lacks transparency in the handling of crude oil earnings and this has led to the massive corruption where a few siphon the nations’ commonwealth, according to Dr. Babangida Aliyu,…