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Kaduna State Police Commissioner, Malam Umar Shehu on Thursday ordered the detention of a Kaduna State University, KASU, lecturer, Dr. John Danfulani over an alleged facebook hate... ....[P.M. News] »

Disturbed by alleged incessant shut down of Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) sites, telecommunications operators have threatened to shut down their operations in six states. ... ....[The Guardian] »

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abu Dhabi urged telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria not to place their desire for huge profits above the security needs of the country... ....[DailyPost] »

Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has revealed that Nigeria currently loses N78 billion yearly to the activities of cyber criminals. Speaking in Abuja yesterday... ...[New Telegraph] »

Telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria on Thursday said that it has completed the acquisition of Visafone, the only surviving Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network in Nigeria’s... ....[P.M. News] »

Tension between telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and MTN Nigeria would hit the peak today as the former insisted yesterday that it would not shift ground... ...[New Telegraph] »

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it will begin warning users of its consumer services including Outlook.com email when the company suspects that a government has been trying to hack... ...[New Telegraph] »

Nigeria has opened talks with China for the financing and construction of two new communication satellites at a cost of $701m. The new satellites... ....[The Punch] »

The Federal Government has said the transmitters for Radio Biafra, which has been accused of spreading secessionist agenda and campaigning for the carving out of a Biafra Republic from Nigeria, were found to be installed on MTN masts... ....[The Punch] »

Hackers pull down Nigerian Court of Appeal’s website Unknown hackers on Friday pulled down the website of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, apparently in retaliation for the killings... ...[New Telegraph] »

The MTN Group on Thursday said it had asked its Nigerian subsidiary not pay the N780bn fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission... ....[The Punch] »

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Saturday said that MTN Nigeria, Globacom and Etisalat violated the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) process time obligations in the third quarter... ....[DailyPost] »

Facebook has activated its "Safety Check" feature for the first time in Nigeria, after a bombing likely carried out by Boko Haram killed more than 30 late on Tuesday. The post Facebook... ...[Vanguard News] »

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday extended to Friday the deadline given to MTN to pay a $5.2billion fine. The commission also said it sanctioned the telecommunications... ....[The Nation] »

MTN Group Ltd. is trying to reduce a $5.2 billion fine imposed by Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator by as much as 80 percent and is considering borrowing money from banks to help... ...[BusinessDay] »

The Managing Director of Ntel, Mr Kamar Abass, said this in Lagos on Thursday during a media luncheon organised by the company. Ntel is the company that acquired the assets and liabilities... ....[NTA News] »

The Nigerian Communications Commission stated on Sunday that the number of Internet users on the telecommunication networks in the country had hit 97.21 million, up from the 95.37 million... ....[The Punch] »

Nigeria’s telecoms regulator said, on Thursday, that it had set a November 16 deadline for the South African mobile giant, MTN to pay a $5.2 billion fine for missing a deadline... ....[Daily Times] »

The telecom firm, MTN, seems to have run into more trouble as its stocks fell for a third day in Johannesburg to a three-year low. The stock declined 2.6 percent to 155.85 rand... ....[Leadership NG] »