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- 8 Dec 2009
Nitel Privatisation: Guiding against Previous Mistakes
The inability of Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) to conclude the sale of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) within the 60 days as directed by Vice president Goodluck Jonathan, who is also…
- 1 Apr 2013
Atiku, el-Rufai Trade Words over Killing of Nitel
Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, former director general, Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) under whose watch the controversial contractual agreement with Pentascope, a Dutch firm to manage Nitel , Nigeria’s…
- 4 Apr 2013
el-Rufai Responsible for Nitel’s Death, Former Workers Claim
Some former chief executives, union members and retirees of failed national carrier, the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) have joined the war of words over the failure of national carrier…
- 4 Oct 2013
Reps Want Bailout for Moribund NITEL, MTEL
House of Representatives yesterday passed a resolution recommending a bail out for the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and the Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTel) by the Central…
- 22 Jun 2009
New Board Runs Nitel with ‘Project Terms’ System
Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed, chairman of the Technical Management Board on Nigerian Telecommunications Plc (Nitel), has tasked the staff of Nitel and its mobile arm, M-tel, to ensure that the…
- 13 Nov 2008
NigComSat Secures Stakes in Nitel
Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) has formerly secured 15 percent stakes in Nigeria Telecommunications (Nitel) PLC with the admittance of Engineer Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, the managing…
- 18 Aug 2008
Caruso, Nitel Boss Says New Team Will Improve Operation
Mr. Kevin Caruso, managing director/CEO of Nigeria Telecommunications Plc (Nitel), has said that the appointment of a new board for the national carrier became imperative to enhance the operations of…
- 15 Nov 2016
NITEL Was Evil; I’m Glad it Died – El-Rufai
Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State has told of how some top Nigerian officials and a cabal within the former Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) never wanted the liberalisation of the…
- 23 May 2013
Senate Says FG, Customers Owe Nitel N601Bn
Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation has put the debt being owed the troubled Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) by the federal government and its agencies at N250…
- 29 Sept 2008
BPE and Nitel: Hope Rising
The latest attempts at privatization of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel), has breathed life into the beleaguered national carrier ensnared in the debris of years of mismanagement and…
- 14 Dec 2009
Nitel to Borrow N3Bn from Pension to Pay Salary Arrears
The National Council on Privatisation has approved that N3 billion be borrowed from the accounts of Nitel Pension Fund in Liquidation to pay five months salary of workers of the Nigeria…
- 11 Aug 2008
Omo-Ettu, Telecom Expert Values Nitel at $2.2 billion
Engineer Titi Omo-Ettu, chief executive, The Executive Cyberschuul (Tec), has put the total assets of Nigeria Telecommunications limited (Nitel), first National carrier at $2.2 billion and is willing…
- 29 Mar 2010
Don’t Cancel Nitel Sale
When New Generation Telecom Consortium Limited won the bid to acquire 75 per cent in the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) in mid February, some Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief. To many,…
- 7 Sept 2009
Sat-3, Mtel, Main Attractions of Nitel Sale
Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel), the beleaguered national operator plagued by industrial actions, equipment loss and vandalism, a chronic lack of investment and allegations of…
- 7 Jul 2008
FG Awards Control of Security Cables to Nitel
Nigeria Telecommunications (Nitel) Plc has assumed control of all security telecommunications cables and other services to the Presidential Villa and headquarters of all security outfits within and…
- 2 Feb 2014
FG to Make Another Attempt to Wind-Down NITEL
The federal government is to restart attempt to wind down Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL)., the moribund national carrier and MTEL, it mobile subsidiary, after a court blocked its…
- 22 Feb 2010
Nitel: Another Privatization?
The privatization of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) has entered the history books as the most controversial laced with roadblocks. At a point, it appeared the privatization of the telco…
- 16 Mar 2009
FG to Offload Stake in Nitel
Federal government has began the process of selling its stake in Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) as the National Council on Privatization (NCP) has approved the advertisement for…
- 13 Apr 2015
NATCOM Consortium Pays Outstanding N29.6Bn for NITEL, MTel
NATCOM Consortium, the preferred bidder of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile arm (MTEL), has paid $176,575,700 (N29,696,469,600) being the outstanding 70 per cent of…
- 6 May 2008
Nitel: FG Accuses Transcorp of Incompetence
The prolonged claims and counter charges surrounding Transcorp activities in Nitel, the premier national carrier and Mtel, its mobile arm took a new twist at the weekend with the federal government…
- 25 Jan 2010
BPE Fixes Feb. 5 as Deadline for Submission of Proposal on Nitel
Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) has extended the deadline for the submission of technical and financial proposals for the privatization of Nigerian Telecommunications Plc (NITEL) and its mobile…
- 6 Mar 2012
Titi Omo-Ettu's Thoughts on NITEL and ‘Guided Liquidation’
The questions, all came in the form of ‘the Federal Government has decided to do a guided liquidation of NITEL. What do you think of this?’ I asked almost everybody who posed the question in whatever…
- 4 Aug 2008
Investigate Sat-3 Earnings- Nitel Staff
Aggrieved staff of national carrier, Nitel, has petitioned the federal government urging the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related…
- 18 Jan 2010
Investors Bidding for Nitel Increases to 14
The number of investors bidding to acquire the 75 per cent equity share being offered for sale in the Nigeria Telecommunication Company limited (Nitel) by the government, has risen to 14 from the 10…
- 23 Feb 2015
SAT-3 Services to Bounce Back as Lagos, NITEL Agree on Repairs
Lagos State government and Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) have resolved their differences and agreed to work together to relocate South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable…
- 3 Dec 2014
NATCOM Offers $252m, Wins Bid for NITEL, Mtel
NATCOM Consortium, a special purpose vehicle has emerged the preferred for the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited (Mtel), its mobile subsidiary…
- 12 Jul 2013
FG Appoints Olutola Senbore and Co to Liquidate Nitel, Mtel
Federal government has appointed Olutola Senbore and Co., a consultant liquidator of Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) and M-TEL, its mobile subsidiary after several attempts to privatize…
- 19 Mar 2012
Why Nitel Cannot Be Sold for $105m - BPE
Nitel, Nigeria’s crippled public telecom provider which has been in the open market but without buyer for over a decade is still not looking good even as the Bureau of Public Enterprises, (BPE), the…
- 14 Apr 2009
Nitel Shops for Ship to Repair Cut Sat-3 Cable
Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel), which holds the country’s stake in the South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable (Sat-3), has gone to South Africa in search of a ship that…
- 23 Mar 2009
Proposed Nitel Workers Protest Flops
National Union of Postal and Telecommunications Employees (NUPTE) last week failed on its planned protest over the sack of 78 workers of the Nigerian Telecommunications Plc (Nitel) …