The Nigerian telecoms industry, acclaimed as the fastest growing in Africa, has once again, come under global scrutiny on account of recent activities in the sector. The renewed interest in the country’s telephony landscape is occasioned by a price war that has erupted among the four major GSM operators, namely, MTN, Globacom, Airtel and Etisalat.

The non passage of Cyber Crime bill by the out-going National Assembly has continued to attract condemnations among stakeholders in the Nigerian ICT sector even as Nigeria is still rated high as a result of the ugly trend which has remained unabated.

Most recently, counterfeiting has become so pervasive in Nigeria that not only consumer products, such as household items, mobile phones and automobile spare parts are involved, but professional telecommunication devices,such as two-way radios are becoming affected too.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, at the weekend in Lagos, tasked telecom operators on the need to expand their existing infrastructure to alleviate the current challenges in quality of services which has deteriorated to unacceptable levels

As the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, embark on series of reforms in the financial sector, an expert in the ICT sector of the economy, Mr Collins Onuegbu has advised that bulk of the reforms ride on the ICT programmes and applications to stand the test of time.

Annual ICT conferences, West Africa Information and Communications Technology Exhibition, W.Afri.Tel, and the West African ICT Congress, WAFICT, last week received the nod of the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON as industry’s best in the sub-region.

After a thorough look at the trends in Nigeria’s telecommunications practice and operations, the Global System for Mobile telephony Association, GSMA, has said that the country can scoop about N862 billion in Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by the end of 2015, from technology alone if it plays according to the rules of the game.

Nnaemeka Ewelukwa is a Senior Teaching Fellow in International Trade Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also manages African Legal Consulting Limited, London UK, a firm that consults on the legal aspects of investing or doing business in Africa

Nigeria’s 1st national telecommunications carrier, NITEL,after suffering several botched sales, never seem to cease to attract controversy. From payment problems to its uncountable bid processes, to the viability of the companies bidding and the value of the bid, Nitel has always been a subject of controversial debates.

Barely minutes after the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC Professor Atahiru Jega on Saturday announced that the National Assembly elections had been postponed, business activities immediately resumed in the Ikeja computer village as computer traders and phone dealers hastily threw open doors to their shops to make the most of a literarily wasted business day.