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- 8 May 2024
MTN Nigeria’s Uto Ukpanah Named Global Corporate Secretary of the Year
MTN Nigeria’s Company Secretary, Uto Ukpanah, is the first ever winner of the “Global Corporate Secretary of the Year'' award by the Corporate Secretaries International Association (CSIA). She was…
- 28 Jul 2025
MTN’s Uto Ukpanah Becomes 30th ICSAN President, Reinforcing Female Leadership in Governance
Nigeria’s corporate landscape is witnessing a significant transformation, with women increasingly occupying leadership positions and reshaping the narrative at the highest levels. A striking example…
- 2 Jul 2020
MTN Nigeria Discloses Insider Dealing of 920,000 Shares
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc on Thursday disclosed an insider dealing of 920,000 shares in line with the new Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) policy. In a statement signed by Uto Ukpanah, company…
- 6 Jun 2025
MTN’s Female Leadership Surges to 41.4%, Doubles Industry Average
MTN Nigeria Communications PLC has announced a significant increase in female representation within its leadership, with women now making up 41.4% of its workforce, a notable rise from 38.7% in 2023.…
- 5 Nov 2021
MTN, Airtel Secure Approvals to Operate Payment Service Banks
MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa have secured approval in principle to operate a payment service bank (PSB). The telecommunications giants disclosed this in regulatory filings on the Nigerian Exchange…
- 30 Nov 2021
MTN Nigeria Launches 575m Ordinary Shares @ N169 per share
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, Nigeria’s largest telecommunications company,has announced that it will open public offering of 575 million ordinary shares to the general retail investing public at a…
- 4 Nov 2024
MTN Nigeria to Issue N50Bn Commercial Paper
MTN Nigeria has proposed issuing up to N50bn series 11 and 12 commercial paper notes to raise funding for its operations, according to the company’s notice to the Nigerian Exchange Limited. The notes…
- 12 Mar 2021
MTN Nigeria Acquires Additional 10MHz Spectrum from Intercellular
MTN Nigeria has acquired additional 10MHz spectrum in the 800MHz band from Intercellular Nigeria Limited. Karl Toriola, Chief Executive Officer, MTN Nigeria Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),…
- 23 Jun 2021
MTN Nigeria Gets Highest Possible Credit Ratings from GCR
Global Credit Ratings (GCR) has upgraded the national scale long-term issuer rating of MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN Nigeria) to AAA and affirmed the national scale short-term rating of A1+,…
- 8 Sept 2021
MTN Pays N72Bn for Renewal of Licenses
MTN Nigeria, telecommunication giant, has confirmed the payment of N72 billion to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the renewal of its Universal Access License and spectrum license for…
- 8 Oct 2021
MTN Nigeria Offers N90Bn Series II Bond for Sale After Approval
MTN Nigeria is offering N90 billion worth of bonds with 10 years maturity for sale to investors after obtaining regulatory approval for the exercise. The book build for the N90 billion series II bond…
- 4 Nov 2021
MTN to Sell 575m Shares in Nigeria Unit through Public Offer
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN Nigeria) has announced that it intends to proceed with a public offer for the sale of up to 575 million shares in MTN Nigeria by way of a bookbuild to…
- 14 Dec 2021
5G Deployment: MTN Nigeria Upbeat After Successfully Bidding for 3.5GHz Spectrum Licence
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has expressed delight after it successfully acquired one of the two 100MHZ spectrum licences in the 3.5GHz spectrum band auctioned by the Nigerian Communications…
- 1 Feb 2022
6.6m Nigerians Become MTN Shareholders as Telco Rakes in N111.75Bn from Offer
MTN Nigeria Communication Plc has said it now has 6.6 million Nigerians as direct or indirect shareholders as it made N111.75bn from its share offer to Nigerians. The telecommunications company said…
- 9 Feb 2022
MTN Nigeria Debunks Knowledge of PTECSSAN Planned Industrial Action
MTN Nigeria Communications PLC has denied reports of planned industrial action by the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) over conditions of…
- 20 Dec 2022
MTN Nigeria to Cancel 7.5bn Uninssued Shares
The shareholders of MTN Nigeria Plc have approved the cancellation of 7.5 billion of unissued shares. The company revealed that the shareholders approved the cancellation during the Extraordinary…
- 2 Nov 2023
MTN Nigeria Plans N52Bn Recapitalisation
MTN Nigeria plans to issue two series of commercial papers worth N52.895bn, according to a corporate notice filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Thursday. In the notice, the company said that…
- 17 Dec 2023
MTN Completes N250Bn Commercial Paper Issuance Programme
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, has announced the completion of its series 10 commercial paper issuance under an upsized N250 billion commercial paper issuance programme, according to company’s…
- 27 Mar 2024
FG Rakes in N412Bn VAT from Telecom Subscribers
Telecommunication subscribers and other consumers of information and communications services in Nigeria paid N412.31 billion in Value Added Tax (VAT) last year. This is as telecom companies and other…
- 7 Aug 2024
MTN Nigeria Renegotiates Tower Lease Agreement with IHS, ATC Nigeria
MTN Nigeria has renegotiated its existing infrastructure sharing and master lease agreements with IHS Tower Nigeria Limited and ATC Nigeria Wireless Infrastructure Solutions Limited (ATC) . …
- 26 Nov 2024
MTN Nigeria Shops for N50Bn Commercial Paper to Boost Working Capital
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has announced plans to issue up to N50bn in Series 13 and 14 Commercial Paper Notes under its N250bn Commercial Paper Issuance Programme. This proposed issuance aligns…
- 25 Dec 2024
MTN Nigeria Renews Spectrum Lease Agreement with NTEL
MTN Nigeria Communications PLC has announced that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the renewal of the spectrum lease agreement between MTN Nigeria and Natcom Development and…
- 23 Jun 2025
MTN, Lagos Govt, NDLEA Champion Drug Prevention in Lagos Advocacy Walk
Hundreds of Lagos residents, civil society groups, and government agencies took to the streets on Saturday, June 21, as part of the 2025 Anti-Substance Abuse Programme (ASAP) advocacy walk,…
- 2 Jul 2025
NCC Approves MTN, 9Mobile Roaming Collaboration Deal
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has announced the execution of a national roaming agreement with Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services Limited (9Mobile), a move that signals a major milestone…
- 21 Sept 2025
Experts Seek Engagement on AI Adoption for Governance Standards
Experts have said that the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence, which is transforming operational models and governance structures, has prompted the need for multi-stakeholder engagement to…
- 5 Nov 2025
MTN Nigeria Celebrates Esther Akinnukawe’s CIPM Fellowship and Inclusive Leadership
In an era where organisations are redefining leadership and equity, MTN Nigeria continues to set the pace with its growing cadre of women in senior leadership positions. The company’s consistent…
- 5 Mar 2026
MTN Nigeria Non-Executive Director Mazen Mroue Quits to Focus on Group Role
Mazen Mroue, a non-executive director at MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, has resigned effective February 27, 2026, to prioritise other responsibilities within the MTN Group, the company announced in…
- 13 Jun 2016
NCC/MTN Reach 3-Year Payment Agreement, MTN to List on NSE
MTN Nigeria and the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) have allegedly reached an amicable settlement in the matter of the N1.04 Trillion fine imposed by the Regulator in October 2015 for MTN’s…
- 16 Apr 2026
MTN Suspends Data, Airtime Borrowing Service over New FCCPC Lending Rules
MTN Nigeria has announced the temporary suspension of its airtime and data advance service, Xtratime, following new regulatory requirements introduced by the Federal Competition and Consumer…
- 4 Jun 2019
MTN Empower Youth during 21 Days of Y’ello Care
Nigeria is characterised by an ever-increasing youthful population. While this dynamic presents exciting potential, it also poses some challenges, one of which is youth unemployment. It is…