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- 28 Jul 2026
Galaxy Backbone Soft Launches Government Service Portal to Simplify Access to Public Services
Galaxy Backbone (GBB), in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy (FMCIDE) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), officially…
- 26 Jan 2022
Check Point Software Enhances its Secure Access Service Edge Solution
Check Point Software Technologies, a provider of cyber security solutions globally, announced that its enhanced Harmony Connect Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) allows: . Zero-trust connectivity to…
- 8 Apr 2014
Unified Payments Launches Payarena
Unified Payment Services Limited, leading Payments Industry Service Provider has introduced a new service platform, Payarena®. Payarena offers customers access to Value Added Services which include…
- 15 Apr 2026
Study Shows 38% of Northern Women Lack Access to Financial Services
A new study by Bayero University, Kano, has found that 38 per cent of women in Northern Nigeria do not have access to financial services. The study, carried out by the Aminu Kano Centre for…
- 18 Jun 2019
Dangote Deploys Freshworks to Unify IT Service Management Across Subsidiaries
The Dangote Group, the largest indigenous industrial conglomerate in Sub Saharan Africa has deployed Freshservice by Freshworks, its cloud-based service desk software that helps modernize the IT…
- 27 Apr 2024
CBN Licenses Unified Payments as Second Provider for PTSA Services for Nigeria
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has awarded the country’s second Payment Terminal Service Aggregator (PTSA) license to Unified Payments, Nigeria’s premier financial technology company, following a…
- 23 Apr 2015
MasterCard Grants Unified Payment License to Accelerate Merchants e-Payments
MasterCard on Thursday granted an acquiring license to Unified Payment Service Limited (Unified Payments) a leading Payments Service Provider in a move that is expected to broadly increase the…
- 22 Dec 2008
Evans Becomes CEO of Etisalat Nigeria
EMTS, which trades under the name of Etisalat, has announced the appointment of Steven E. Evans as its new chief executive officer in Nigeria EMTS was awarded a unified access service license in…
- 21 Dec 2009
Hello! G-Cell Rings in Four States
G-Cell Communication, code division multiple access (CDMA) provider has successfully deployed a universal access services network to ensure that Nigerians irrespective of tribe, age, workplace and…
- 2 Oct 2024
Galaxy Backbone, KOICA Deepen Collaboration to Strengthen Government to Citizen Engagement Through Government Service Portal
Galaxy Backbone, in collaboration with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), yesterday hosted a high-level engagement workshop with the 12 key government agencies that will drive the…
- 1 Sept 2008
Battle for Supremacy Among CDMA Operators
The introduction of Unified Access License by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in 2006 after the expiration of exclusivity right given to Global System for Mobile communication (GSM)…
- 5 Jun 2013
Unified Payments Appoints New Directors
Unified Payment Services Limited has appointed Babatunde Okeniyi, director, Marketing and Sales and Sina Joseph as director, Information Technology & Operations. Okeniyi will bring to his new…
- 12 Jan 2009
Visafone Shops for N30Bn by Private Placement
Visafone Communications Ltd promoted by Jim Ovia, famous banker, has commenced a private placement in order to raise N30 billion, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek investigations can now reveal. The…
- 21 Feb 2012
Challenges of Broadband Revolution
The growth in telecommunications sector of the country is expected to move from growth level to development where service providers are to consolidate on improved quality of service. Presently, over…
- 19 Jan 2009
NCC to Review 18 Major Telecom Licenses
At least 18major telecom licenses granted by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) are due for renewal, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek investigations can now reveal. The licenses made up of Private…
- 8 Sept 2010
CDMA Operators and Strategies for Survival
The granting of United Access License by Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) in 2006 after the expiration of exclusivity right given to Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) operators was…
- 6 Jul 2010
Preparing for Expected Broadband Revolution
The growth in telecommunications sector of the country is expected to move from growth level to development where service providers are to consolidate on improved quality of service. Presently, over…
- 10 Apr 2018
Ecobank Mobile App Processes $1Bn Transactions
The groundbreaking Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com) Mobile App, a single, unified financial services application across 33 African countries, has processed 9 million transactions worth over $1 billion since…
- 5 Apr 2012
Valucard Metamorphoses into Unified Payments Company
ValuCard Nigeria Limited, foremost payment industry solutions provider has shed its toga to become a Unified Payment Services Limited. Bisi Onasanya, chairman, Board of Directors, Unified Payments®,…
- 20 Jan 2014
FG Hikes Broadband Spectrum Auction to N4Bn
The federal government is now asking for N3.97 billion, against the earlier price of N3.6 billion as auction fee for the 2.3GHz broadband spectrum, media reports claimed last night. Consequently, the…
- 6 May 2022
GSMA Launches a Mobile Money API Specification Compliance Service
GSMA, the global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem, recently launched a Mobile Money API Compliance Verification Service; a quality assurance initiative which aims to reduce the complexities…
- 17 Dec 2025
AI Meets Governance: Anambra Rolls Out SmartGov for Seamless Citizen Interaction
Anambra State has taken another decisive step in digital governance with the BETA launch of SmartGov (https://smart.anambrastate.gov.ng), its digital government services platform designed to simplify…
- 12 Jan 2014
NCC Auctions 2.3GHz Spectrum Worth N3.6Bn February
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will auction the 2.3 GHz band for commercial assignment on a national basis during the week commencing February 17, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can now report.…
- 13 May 2025
NIMC Launches NINAuth Digital Identity Verification App for Govt Services
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) of Nigeria has launched a new digital identity verification tool called the NIN Authentication (NINAuth) application. The initiative, which forms part…
- 2 Jan 2025
Mafab Communications to Roll out 5G Services in Kano and Abuja this Quarter
Mafab Communications, a Nigerian telecommunications company that acquired a 5G license in 2021, is set to begin operations by the end of the first quarter of 2025, according to Adebayo Onigbanjo,…
- 9 May 2013
MasterCard Powers Nigerian Identity Card Programme
Nigerian National IdentityManagement Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard have announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa the roll-out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards…
- 8 Feb 2010
Funds, GSM Killing CDMA Operators Softly
A number of Code Division Multiple Access operators (CDMA) offering fixed and mobile services have seen bad times and are no longer operating optimally, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can now reveal.…
- 19 Sept 2022
Inq. Digital Wins Double at Tech Innovation Awards (TIA) 2022
inq. Digital Nigeria Limited, the leading-Edge solutions provider, with innovative business-relevant services in Edge AI and IoT, SDN/SFV for Edge Cloud, Secure Access Services Edge and Elastic Edge…
- 22 Sept 2008
$550m Deal: NCC Threatens Sudatel over Intercellular
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is to wield the big stick on Sudatel, telecommunications and Internet service provider in Sudan, which bought 70 per cent of Intercellular Nigeria Limited for…
- 17 Mar 2016
Spectranet Introduces U-Tariff with Unlimted Free Night Browsing, Extra 10GB
Spectranet 4G LTE, internet service provider (ISP), has announced a unified tariff plans part of its effort to ensure everyone has access to affordable and faster internet. This new…