Telecoms

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Obaseki Shares Experience, As Pantami Woos State Governors on broadband

  The governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has given an impressive report card about what he has already achieved with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the education sector, and many other sectors of the Edo State economy. This came as the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami,  […]

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FG Directs Network Service Providers to Reverse Unilateral Upward Tariffs

The  Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said its attention has been drawn to media reports of unilateral implementation of the recently approved 10 per cent upward tariff adjustments for some voice and data services by the service providers, on their networks. It explained that the consideration for 10 per cent approval for tariff adjustments for […]

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NCC Disowns Circulating “Certificate of Site Ownership for Mass Transmission Antenna”

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has discovered, through social listening and environmental surveillance that a fraudulent letter, titled: “Certificate of Site Ownership”, for clearance of “Mast Transmission Antenna”, are being circulated by some unidentifiable individuals, and purporting that the letter was issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. The fraudulent letter claimed that the Commission […]

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Governors Assemble for Broadband Awareness Forum

All Nigeria State Governors are set to discuss how to empower the citizens with latest telecoms technologies as they partake in the maiden edition of Broadband Technical Awareness Forum for Governors (BTAF), put together by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and slated for Thursday in Abuja. The programme, which takes place at the Congress Hall […]

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Telecom Infrastructure Very Important to Success of 2023 Elections – Danbatta

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said telecom infrastructure is very critical to successful 2023 elections, therefore, every Nigerian in every community should join hands in protecting it for the benefit of the country. Danbatta, who was special guest at the 6th Edition of the Annual Conference of […]

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Nigeria Re-Elected as ITU Council Member

In clear recognition of the critical role Nigeria is playing on the global telecom stage, the country was re-elected earlier today as a Council member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency that oversees global telecommunication operations. Nigeria will serve on the Council again from 2023-2026. The election of Nigeria and […]

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Blackbyte Ransomware Abuses Legit Driver to Disable Security Products, Says NCC-CSIRT

The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has flagged a high-impact threat to Windows operating system, the Blackbyte Ransomware, which has the capacity to bypass protections by disabling more than 1,000 drivers used by various security solutions. The NCC-CSIRT said the BlackByte ransomware gang, which is using a new technique that researchers […]

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NCC-CSIRT Urges Firmware Update after Lenovo Found Vulnerabilities in Own Products

Following the disclosure by equipment manufacturer, Lenovo, of several of its vendors discovery of vulnerabilities in some of its products, the Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT), in its recent advisory, rated the probability of the vulnerability as high with an equally high damage potential. It, therefore, urged users of affected products […]

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NCC-CSIRT Identifies Countermeasures Against Website Scams on Microsoft Edge Browser

The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has issued an advisory for users to install trusted, up-to-date anti-virus software with an Internet security component and to customize News Feed in Microsoft Edge Browser. This is part of the countermeasures to lessen the chances of falling for a malicious attack that has been […]

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Zoom Users Advised to Update Software After Vulnerabilities Found

The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has advised users of videotelephony platform, Zoom, to install the latest update of the software from its publisher’s official website following the discovery of vulnerabilities that allows a remote attacker to exploit the app. In advisory issued on Wednesday, NCC-CSIRT reported that the Indian Computer […]

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Danbatta Lauds Media Creation of Telecom Awareness

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Professor Umar Danbatta, has said that the level of awareness of the potentials of telecommunications products and services is a credit to the media industry which has partnered with the Commission in the regulatory process. Danbatta who was the Keynote Speaker at the dinner hosted by […]

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NCC urges NSSB to create Awareness About Digital Literacy

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged the Nasarawa State Scholarship Board (NSSB) to support the NCC in creating awareness about the intervention projects of the Commission concerning research and digital literacy in order to provide more opportunities for the citizenry. Director of Digital Economy at the Commission, Dr. Augustine Nwaulune, who hosted a delegation […]

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