Nigeria’s data demand outpacing network growth — NCC
…Says mobile broadband covers 90% of Nigerians, only 27% own smartphones…Seeks long-term naira funding for telecoms infrastructure By Juliet Umeh The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has warned that rising data demand is putting pressure on Nigeria’s networks and called for greater investment in digital infrastructure.In a communiqué issued on Sunday after the Nigeria Digital Connectivity […]
Why Digital Transformation Fails: It is an operational intelligence problem, not a technology one
By Felicia Oyedara Every transformation programme starts with a process map, swimlane diagrams, documented workflows, and a shared belief that the organisation understands how its own work moves. That belief may not always fully reflect operational realities, and the cost of discovering gaps mid-migration is rarely small. In April 2018, TSB Bank migrated customer records […]
PalmPay reports 35 million users, deepens role in Nigeria’s digital finance ecosystem
The digital banking platform, PalmPay, has said it now has over 35 million users, six years after launching operations in Nigeria’s financial services market.
Building on rented land: How Nigeria loses N60bn yearly to foreign domains
Nigeria is quietly losing an estimated N60 billion every year to foreign domain registrations and web hosting services, a steady outflow that highlights a deeper structural weakness in the country’s digital economy.
Resilience gaps in submarine cable systems threaten West Africa’s digital economy, WATRA warns
Executive Secretary, West African Telecommunications Regulators Assembly, WATRA, Aliyu Aboki has said that West Africa’s growing digital economy is increasingly exposed to systemic risks due to weak resilience in submarine cable infrastructure and fragmented regional coordination.
Nigeria may not make shishi from two new satellites in 2029 unless
By 2029, Nigeria would have launched two communications satellites into space. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Jane Egerton-Idehen, one will go up in 2028 and the other in 2029.
