One of Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator, MTN Group, has suffered its first annual loss in revenue projections in two decades, due mainly to a fine...
A new twist may have been added to the matter of recovered monies allegedly stolen from government purse as the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar...
Palpable fear has gripped Nigeria-based South African telecom company, MTN, over rumours of planned reprisal attacks by aggrieved Nigerian youths. This is as a result of...
A landmark agreement has just been reached by Sony Music Entertainment after it reached a partnership with Nigerian telecoms companies MTN, Airtel and Etisalat in the...
The Federal Government’s hope of raking in N330 billion from MTN as fine may have been dashed as the GSM giant has said it can not...
The year 2016 is surely a good one for talented musician cum comic actor Folarin Falana popularly known as Falz the Bahd Guy. Falz who has...
The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), on Tuesday, said it acted with a temporal price floor for data services to avert a looming price war in the...
A major GSM operator, MTN Nigeria is on the verge of reducing its investment stock in the country. The company’s headquarters in South Africa has confided...
President Muhammadu Buhari may have ordered one of his senior aides to answer to the allegation of taking N500 million bribe from a leading telecommunications firm...
The Senate on Tuesday, revealed that investigation into the alleged repatriation of $13.9 billion by MTN Nigeria has begun. The Red Chamber has also revealed that...
The troubles of communications giant, MTN, in Nigeria has caused it to be downgraded to junk by the international ratings agency, Standard and Pauls (S&P). ...
Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, has described as baseless, the allegation by Senator Dino Melaye that he colluded with MTN Limited...
A minister under President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has been accused of aiding MTN to repatriate $13.9 billion to its home country, South Africa. Senator Dino...
The MTN Group Limited has raised $1.3 billion loan with which to offset the N330 billion fine placed on it by Nigeria last year, so said...
Nigeria economic meltdown has seen operators in its telecommunications sector losing more than 60 million lines at the end of second quarter of 2016, according to...
Telecoms giant, MTN has announced its music brand ambassadors for the year 2016/2017 via a statement it issued earlier today, as the brand continues to provide...
A lawyer and human rights activist, Festus Keyamo has filed a suit against the telecoms company, MTN Nigeria, at the Federal High Court in Lagos on...
Former MTN Project Fame winner Iyanya went into a moment of rage when he allegedly threatened a Calabar based radio personality cum comedian known as Last...
MTN Nigeria will displace Dangote Cement Plc as Nigeria’s largest quoted company as the board of the telecommunication company on Thursday appointed the advisory team and...
‘Reggae Blues’ crooner and Five Star music act Harrysong is thanking his stars after he narrowly escaped an auto crash with his crew members along Owerri-...
Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, Wednesday, emerged winner of the 2.6 GHz frequency spectrum auction by the industry regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). MTN was adjudged the...
A member of the House of Representatives, Raphael Igbokwe, has dragged the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, the Minister of Communication Technology, Adebayo...
Africa’s biggest telecommunications operator, MTN Group on Monday announced the appointment of Rob Shutter as its new chief executive officer. The announcement came after months of...
Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, has agreed to pay the Nigerian government $1.7 billion as settlement of the fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission,...
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, on Wednesday, cleared the air on the controversy over the payment of N50b fine by the telecoms giant, MTN Nigeria....
Contrary to allegations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, members of the dissolved board of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, have denied any wrongdoing, saying...
MTN has paid its former chief executive officer, Sifiso Dabengwa, $1.6 million after he resigned over a record fine imposed on the company by the federal...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has invited for interrogation, a former Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Emeka Mba and nine ex-members of...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Thursday, explained his role in the payment of N50billion to the Federal...
French telecommunications company, Orange, is to invest 75 million euro ($85 million) in Nigerian e-commerce group Africa Internet Group (AIG) and become a shareholder, the two...
The lower legislative chambers and the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami are at daggers drawn over the reduction of the...
The lower legislative chambers and the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami are at daggers drawn over the reduction of the...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday said it has lifted the regulatory services ban placed on MTN Nigeria. This, the regulatory agency said is based...
MTN Nigeria says that reports making the rounds that it has proposed to pay only N300 billion of the N780 NCC fine were not true, as...
President Mohammadu Buhari on Tuesday accused MTN of causing the death of 10,000 Nigerians over its refusal to register SIM cards on time. President Buhari stated...
The Federal Government, Monday, explained why it accepted part payment on the fine imposed on telecommunications company, MTN. The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami,...
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa and President Muhammadu Buhari are billed to hold talks on March 8, when the former arrives on a two-day state...
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has fined MTN Nigeria and Globacom Ltd a total of N34 million for breach of the Mobile Number Portability business rules...
Telecommunications operator, Etisalat says the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was wrong to approve the acquisition of Visafone, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operator, by MTN...
Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, may have soften its tough stand on the N1.04 trillion fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as it...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, added his voice to the faceoff between telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria Limited and the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, when in a...
Visafone, the only Coded Multiple Division Access (CMDA), network in the country and hitherto owned by renowned banker and ICT philanthropist, Jim Ovia was acquired by...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday said MTNNigeria Communications Limited could no longer move any funds from all banks in Nigeria abroad pending hearing...
By Onuoha Frank . . . . Mobile communication giant, MTN has concluded the purchase of Visafone network. Yes, MTN now owns Visafone…but that’s not the...
At least about 83 per cent of the workforce of Visafone, amounting to about 2, 000 workers may have been thrown into the job market as...
By Olusegun Adeniyi . . . When on October 22 this year the National Communications Commission (NCC) imposed an unprecedented fine of $5.2 billion (N1.04trn) on...
By Ali Smart . . . MTN Nigeria Communications Limited along with the the Incorporated Trustees of National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) has urged the...
Despite having the initial N1.04 fine reduced by 25 per cent to N780 billion, telecommunications company MTN Nigeria is still not satisfied with the outcome of...
South African telecommunications company, MTN, have been able to reduce its fine burden imposed by the Nigerian Communication, NCC, as the Nigerian regulator has reduced the...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . Temporary respite came the way of telecommunications giant, MTN, as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has acceded to its...